My kidnappers were desperate: no jobs. I fled them down the berry chute, to the underground strawberry factory where engineers in go-go boots did the berry dance. And the berries...
CAUTION: STRAWBERRY FETISH
It had been a weirdly mild winter day, but in my dream black storms loomed as I tried to build shelter...
I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free. But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object...
CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD
No more token canaries--the all-canary workforce, that's us. Let's see if these products are toxic...
CAUTION: ANTI-CAPITALIST
I'm in the Mideast. No wonder it's a war zone--it's a vast pit BUILT for war! But a spiral stair leads slowly out, to...
That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one.
That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and...
I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal...
CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE
Saints and devils in a sunken statuary garden turn too real for comfort; so, creating my own wings, I fly...
My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure...
First I met a deer-man in the woods. Next week I go lucid, then wake up... only to find I'm still dreaming. And wake again. And wake, and wake...
I built a sex-maze to reprogram businesspeople, but I only grasp its meaning when I fuck City Hall...
CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE, POLITICS
Dream poems laid out like a calendar. Themes? Horses, camels, abused girls, vampires--all want their freedom...
It's not easy to get a California driver's license, ever since the Dept. of Motor Vehicles went Jungian...
I was a intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombie monsters from hatching out of the Earth...
During the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross three eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine for me, help Ariane (a childhood crush on the run from sentient tanks), and solve at last the Dream Equations... I learn climbing Everest doesn't take strength, but... trust?
In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come...
I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion...
A Buddhist scroll shows me Hell Cafe, where diners become entrees. But I read the scroll backwards! You can escape Hell just by walking out, against the traffic flow...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL SOULS
I’m a homeless elf. We’re a persecuted minority group. I know I’m dreaming and try to change it but...
How's it feel to be an anima off the job? Is it lonely, when no one even believes you're a real person?
I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine, who ends up in a showdown in a shaman's bar...
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves...
CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards...
CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT...
On Mars, a child-sacrificing cult of miners wants to kill me, but something strange happens....
I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet...
I get back from vacation to find the landlady's installed her daughter in our shared house...
Lucid, I summon a sexy literary character. But he tries to take over my personality and make it his lucid dream...
When the school district goes bankrupt, students flee creditors into a hell-cave. But Joe Cool can skateboard on lava in the pit...
Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see...
I visit the underworld court of the Lizard King, but I can’t leave: he makes me Queen...
CAUTION: MARITAL RAPE (NON-GRAPHIC)
There's power in dark memories--creatures of the deep strata. But the flowers of now are just as real...
Jung (at age three and a half) sees a terrifying god deep underground, and is told “That is the man-eater!”...
The Mayan cave was a door between worlds. But also a model of the character you need to walk through that door...
At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found...
CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
Deep in a secret mine, I see stars. A door opening to the night sky! But this shortcut's guarded...
Our cowboy posse tracks a fugitive to a strange amethyst mine, where we're offered peculiar jobs...
Two friends send energy through me, transforming me. Now that my legs are detachable, I can sit comfortably on my eggs...
Plato never did say what shed the light that cast those shadows on his cave wall. I find out.
CAUTION: CUT-RATE APOCALYPSE
One tribe builds earth-magic pits that can teleport you or grant wishes. But the other tribe's flow-state magic is harder to define...
CAUTION: SEX FANTASY GRANTED
Led by a rebel demon into the heart of a Chinese mountain, should I wake the Sleepers in the Cave?
Quail, spelunking again, finds ancient cave paintings of the Cult of the Fossil TV...
20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems...
CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
Mt Everest is snowfree and red; and next I get to color sandstone caves red with ochre. That red feels full of energy...
I was in the grave. Worse, a living skeleton was trying to crush my ribs. Though terrified, I fought back, and...
For three weeks he wakened nearly every night, screaming in fright; he said he "fell in a hole." Then, one snowy day...
Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse; my oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snotty aunt; I wake in a stranger's bondage dream and hate it; shepherds watch for gliderwolves on the ocean floor...
CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE DREAM
I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself...
Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits...
CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION?
Deep down in the strata inside you, gems lie waiting in the dark. Waiting for this child to dig them free...
Kaleidoscopic constellations? No thanks! A nudist town in Italy? Ugh. But vaudeville in a monk's robe and roller skates...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis! My friend suddenly couldn't roar...
Golfing in the basement! But the ball lands in another world, where the water hazards are hazards...
It's Thanksgiving but my brother won't come in; he's digging up red earth. In our family he always digs up...
A bouncy, lobe-by-lobe musical tour of your brain with Buddha as your tourguide...
I led a blind man through a vast art museum underground. But focused on guiding him, I too was blind to the beauty...
I'm lost in a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who adore unicorns but hate cyborgs, who think ants are cute, but dread unicorns! And while the Three Tribes love and hate, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four vertices of my tetrahedral soul, but what if I get what I want? Peace, love... transformation? What if those aren't cute and New Age?
CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies through the center of the earth, and now I understand volcanoes...
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me out of my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light. Wait!
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure a girl from a...
In cave times, while the men were out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...
A friend who's struggled with lymphoma invites me to sleep in a cave, but I worry I'll be bitten by a rattlesnake...
A burrowing owl invites her friend the wolf over for tea. It sounds very Beatrix Potter, but...
I wander a sunken maze, meet a playful woman, find a hidden treasure. Meanwhile, my friend Zooop...