I fall in love, defying kidnappers, dwarf-tossers and
Toulouse-Lautrec, until I become a time-traveling bunny...
CAUTION: SEX, SHAMANISM, DWARF-TOSSING (LAUTREC!)
I go to a lucid-dreaming party, meet the Child who Dreams the World, and find the Body under the Bed...
Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake.
Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition.
The real Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to step in
and explain dreams to the waking world...
I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me...
I'm a priestess from an island of women; I meet an angel
who charges me to harvest all the dreams of the world...
A black beetle insists I'm not needed or at home in the human world; my lifework is elsewhere...
On the bridge between waking and dreaming, a jet plane duels a T. Rex. But
the jet strays into dream space, becoming a pterosaur--and soon, Rex lunch...
My friend F. saw a child whose every move was controlled by a weird figure behind her...
I met a god. Unmistakably a god. The Builder, hard at work--making Utopia, by hand.
My guide in India says the Third World's doomed, but a stone dancer in the ruins winks behind his back...
CAUTION: NAKED CARVINGS
At a snake-weaving party I flirt with my anima, who tells me how the
cake fell off the roof. I think "At last we're really connecting!"...
A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness...
CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
Like a long molecule floating in darkness, this dream creature could loop and link to itself...
CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, LANGUAGE
I asked my dreams "What's my truest purpose?"
I dreamed my body was a tree, and a voice said "Chart the growth"...
At a polyspecies circus, I sketch three acrobat-dancers--one deerish, one human, one... a mannequin?
Fiendish to draw! I wake frustrated & sketchless. But my sketchwork in the dream helps me redraw it awake...
CAUTION: DEER NUDITY
I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in
and carry on--clumsy and lonely. Then a divine herald arrives from the Isles: Donald Duck! He says...
I'm the receptionist for a research group of small oracular animals
in an Icelandic rift, who can sniff out the answer to any question...
I met a deer-man in the woods. I go lucid, then wake up... to find I'm still dreaming. And wake again, and wake, and wake...
I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but pen & paper both mutate.
Then a child prodigy explains "dreams don't always want to be linear"...
I dreamt I was given verbena sprigs--from my mother, I'm told. But am I me, Persephone, or all the daughters given love by all the mothers?
The goddess of Night is in love with me, but I'm married, and tired, and just full of excuses...
I've been drawing a personification of the World Dream Bank.
Nerdy, but most of your readers are nerds...
A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane...
CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER
Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution...
I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages.
But then I must fly over a sinister parade...
In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her...
CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
I started life as twins, but slowly we fused. I still have four eyes, though. Then, one day...
The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she's worthy...
DAY: I reread Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. His own dreams feel petty, devious, status-obsessed... dull.
DREAM: I find Freud's bought my childhood home! I spelunk the Freudian underworld--a dark complex of tunnels,
sewers and rats. Cross the rivers of muck on stepping stones. Emerge into sun at last, swearing "Never again..."
We sneak out of the movie to explore Upstairs. My friends hide from the staff
in storage nooks for rolls of fake-fur. They turn into kitsune, catgirls & deergirls...
A hulking, intimidating young man is at my door, with two scary dogs. Wait, is that Carl Jung?...
After 25 years I land on my native island of Wyre, to touch an ancient clay figurine, who grows young and wakes...
I dreamt a couple toss out a shabby old hen. But it lays golden eggs! She becomes an eagle and carries me off to...
We're children seeking gold in a fairy wood. We meet some elf-kids,
chase them off, and dig where they played. Then their parents show up...
CAUTION: INTERSPECIES BULLYING
I get a crush on two mare-girls--sunny palomino Goldie is cute,
but it's dark-silver, lunar Grimoire that really stuns me...
CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, ESP REFERENCES
I wake in a suburb with Dire Wolves next door. I'm told an herb will appease them.
But the local herbal expert's a regal talking lily--and can I speak plant-language?
James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! He sees a shadow and
panics like a groundhog--mistakes it for Death. Not his own shadow, but MINE...
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 heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my...
CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY?
The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake...
I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head...
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
My dream characters aged and tamed until they sit in a genteel Victorian flat. Then a wolf rappels in...
On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are...
One wizardry-classmate summons strange beings; another's learned how not to.
Because some things need to be dealt with alone, where they can't harm......
Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear...
Richard Russo writes that Westerners cannot dream like tribal people.
So I dream Russo's the Cubist Dictator of Dreams! I prefer the part-equine
Lady Demicorn, and the Fat Meditating Dog, and the Birdiesattva...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
In a general store on a High Plains rez, I find two surreal collaged postcards. If only
this were a dream they'd qualify for the World Dream Bank, but sadly, it isn't. Right?
CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID CONSCIOUS!
We ride on a flying saucer made of stone. Atop the great cliffs, we meet a giant and
warn him not to slip. He doesn't appreciate advice from little alien tourist twerps...
In the dark, a dragonlike god of fire stretched out
one claw to courteously light my own small torch...
Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see...
I join the alliance against humorless humanoids who are invading funny-animal planets...
Little Nemo's bed gets restless and takes him for a wild ride through town and up onto roofs...
The Lynx, my dream-god,
comes for me at last...
I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but...
CAUTION: PETTING
I meet a Nightmare in heat who wants me. A human girl by me says I'll catch an equine sex-disease...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
I DREAM I'm in the mansion of my favorite film producer, Otto Preminger. Then I learn it's my home!
I WAKE realizing I'm the producer of my dreams--not some impersonal, instinctive Unconscious...
A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails...
The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching...
I sneak into a mansion where a mom & daughter bond by interrogating willing victims who
get off on the bondage. Later, Inquisitor Girl and I are waiting to use a teleportation gate
and discover we have something in common: not just weird moms, but even weirder dads...
CAUTION: KINKY FAMILY VALUES
I'm swept off sea-rocks, as my scaly guardian watches calmly--letting me drown in the tears I shed...
CAUTION: DROWNING
In Rainbow Food Co-op, a huge statue of a sleeping woman emerged from the floor, shedding shoppers...
The wildcat Rare Bit Fiends slinks out of the hills to stalk and maul
dreamers--until one day she rears up to teach a dream workshop...
A raven summons a levitating mirror that shows her face as a human, and
tries out moods & expressions based on Tarot cards plucked from a tree...
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love.
Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace?
CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
The jewels in the hoard had strange powers, but the advice of the dragon guarding them was even stranger...
I tossed the crystal decanter of my self into the river, and watched it float away...
The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember...
CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole...
Millay, suffering from nightmares, decides to speak from Nightmare's point of view...
Stevenson’s dreams changed over decades: from childhood nightmares into
creative collaborators dreaming whole stories...
A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death...
A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight.
We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe...
My friend Tanya tries hard to save her marriage, but in her dreams Isidora Duncan,
Carl Jung, even the gods themselves warn her to face their deep incompatibility...
I go home. Our cat is there. And a small, striped new cat. Then I step on a third, much bigger cat.
This is just one cat too many! "This cat's not real!" I say...
The nonexistent cat leaps up and scratches my face.
Stuck in a horror movie, I get to meet the triceratops-headed monster
who scriptwrites all my nightmares. But he's open to suggestions...
UFOs hover near enough so I can see they're truly lenses--lenses projecting images.
I judged UFOs to be projections from our minds, but now I see I am their projection!
I led a blind man through a vast art museum underground. But guiding him, I too was blind to the beauty...
I'm stuck on a runaway bus. So we decide to picture the axle falling off, and
it obeys! But the bus zooms on, carried by a horde of little animals...
CAUTION: ESP SKEPTICS WILL LOATHE THE AFTERWORD (true story, though)
On a long steamboat voyage, a living skeleton swaps a warning for my watch; when the whistle
sounds, the boiler will blow. As it does, I dive in the river and wake to discover a real whistle...
CAUTION: UNCANNY SYNCHRONIZATION?
I'm living in an England rendered in chalk. We wander the woods with butterfly nets,
ritually hunting the White Deer--if that's what they really are...
An invisible monster is eating my lettuce patch.
It casts a huge blurry shadow, leaves footprints, but...
I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. In the canyon below Haunted Mansion,
I meet a broccoli-green lizard girl. Naturally I help a lady in distress...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE
Hiking, I come to a chapel where a yogi is meditating--on me. Creating me! And when he stops...
You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it?