A child dreamer and two different kinds of cyborg must cooperate to free the hostages locked under San Francisco Bay...
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
I dream I have sixth and seventh senses--and wake to realize I do! Just denied them, explained them away...
CAUTION: SHAKESPEAREAN HEFT
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...
Ghoulish games backstage at a psychodrama theater. Eerily similar dreams the same night--and THEN they turn out to be predictive...
CAUTION: SLOW DEATH
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...
I cross a hostile continent to a magic commune, fall in love with a flying girl who slaps a soul-spark into my head, and follow an alien goddess leading the Dance of the Sun...
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...
The boy and I walk a spiral trail down the mountain to the caves of tears...
After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of powerful yet obedient devil-angels; quiet for now, but I fear they'll decide shamans like me are abominations...
CAUTION: ANGELS? GOLEMS? DEVILS?
I built a sex-maze to reprogram businesspeople, but I only grasp its meaning when I fuck City Hall...
CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE, RADICAL POLITICS
A criminal mastermind gets tracked down by a hound in a brown monk's cassock, who's introduced to me... as the President of the United States?
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 an intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombies hatching from stone eggs...
1: I'm starving in a lush valley; a cult claims all the food, the water, even the air.
2: I'm drowning in a cage but find a corner with water I can breathe--just barely.
3: I'm a merman with a wise friend who hints I need to leave those who starve & drown me...
CAUTION: DOMESTIC BATTERING (OFFSTAGE)
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?
I turned off my conscious judgment and drew. Two paths appeared--one leading to psychodrama, then prison; the other, into the underworld of dreamwork...
CAUTION: NUDE DREAM-SELVES
Parking structures with spiral ramps are, secretly, screws harvesting motion from parking cars, slowly drilling into near-impenetrable rock. Thus are skyscraper-foundations made...
Previous dreamwork had made it clear my mother had betrayed me; I asked my dreams how to protect myself from those who do not love me...
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, but I end up in a showdown in a shaman's bar...
I fight to save 50,000 eggs that'll hatch psychics. But my friends want to exterminate them! Am I wrong?
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...
Inspired by a bird who weaves her nest of cash, I become a sort of monk, sweeping, renouncing wealth--but my monastery's a BART station...
Inspired by a dream, I painted a big canvas landscape with movable (magnetic) dream figures and flaps revealing hidden dream scenes...
I swim with my daughter Naomi in a desert pool surrounded by lemon trees. She may be able to help me resolve...
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
A martial-arts student won't fight the teacher she loves--not even for her final exam. Instead she gets a rotary saw and...
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
I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself...
Looks like this underground nuclear test will leak. Minutes from detonation, we flee up the spiral stair and out across the sand. Can we run far enough in time?
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...
I'm in the Hypogeum, an ancient Maltese dream-temple. I join some women staging a ritual; a little girl draped in a web plays the role of an insect...
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; in the next dream I redden a sandstone cave with ochre. I feel uneasy...
I was in the grave. Worse, a living skeleton was trying to crush my ribs. Though terrified, I fought back, and...
A friend talks me into being lookout as he steals a cult's secret papers. I know it'll end in murder, but foresight paralyzes me!
Trying to master a game that freezes unplayably now & then, I find a button leading to a secret screen full of second chances...
I'm lost in a grim basement, but two kids show me an exit door whose cobwebby glass can be walked through like air...
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 discover a fossilized Sorting Hat, out of the Harry Potter books. The hat reanimates, and moves in with us. A baby crawls inside, and then...
Our cat does. She emerges looking like a human teen, and talking excitedly of getting drunk at Thanksgiving...like every adult in her life.
But she's not puking drunk like them, so she must be OK! Just as I think I am--no more working to death! I just work to mere exhaustion...
CAUTION: DRUNK TEEN, SEVERELY ALCOHOLIC ADULTS
Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits...
CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION?
I'm a teenage girl diving for treasure. In an eerie coral grotto reeking of sulfur I spot a diver in trouble... and wake to find the grotto is real..
A phrase from a dream, "the remains of men and women," led to this image of a black sun in the underworld amid strata of time and the psyche...
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 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 volunteered to meet him underground. He held me underwater and slammed into me. I nearly drowned, yet...
CAUTION: ROUGH SEX
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...