A bizarre little dream proving just how physical the impact of a dream is on the body...
Agassiz, faced with a fossil he had to crack open, was unsure where to strike. But for three nights he dreamed...
The Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to fill in and explain things to the waking world...
After reading Jung's dreams, I have a counter-Jungian dream. So different from his! And mine has some pointed advice...
CAUTION: NUDE STATUES
I have amnesia. Plus, I'm dead. On the other hand, I have this great NASA job! Only there's a saboteur...
CAUTION: SNOTTY ABOUT CHRISTIANS AGAIN
A sexy encounter with two robotic girls hopping a night train outside Portland...
CAUTION: SEX TEXT
My friend’s mom is a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he’s a crocodile, watch out!
I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but both pens and paper have mutated. Then a child prodigy explains “dreams don’t always want to be linear”...
Rousseau's famous painting of a woman who falls asleep on a sofa and finds herself in a glorious jungle may just be a real dream...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SLACKING
While we're making crop-circles in the field of psychotherapy, my hypnotist and I start to argue...
I'm the composer Schumann, till a nightmare jumps me and I wake. And wake. And wake...
The police confiscate my therapist's copies of my dreams, and try me for obscenity! So why do I help?...
Are dreamworlds grim, on average? Do our dreams just express fears, or try to SOLVE our problems?
An experimental helmet knocks me out. I'm groggy, miserable, till I learn what it did to others...
"I've always dreamed other lives. Other bodies. Other times. Other worlds. I draw my lives..."
I was on one of the package dream-tours, an hour here, a scene there. But then, in Patagonia...
CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM
Patagia dreams she fakes a Hindu rite, provoking Electra to dream she fakes leadership in a band of refugees. Or are they faking?
I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight...
After trying "the Interpretation of Dreams," I meet Floyd Freud, who's attracted to the neo-Nazis...
CAUTION: INSULTS THE MEMORY OF A GREAT GUY
Dreamwork takes discipline, but writing and painting dreams for others takes even more: courage!
After a year of intense dreamwork, Berryman rejects Freud and accepts open-ended dreaming...
CAUTION: SIXTIES STONER REBELLING AGAINST SPELLING... and grammar... and punctuation...
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
In older studies at least, women dream of both sexes but men dream largely of men. Just like TV, huh?
CAUTION: YOU'LL NEVER WATCH TV AGAIN
I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
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 meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point...
Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming...
On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are...
Dream math often seems bad, but I think the discrepancies are a signal, not noise...
Kekule dreamed solutions to the thorniest structural chemistry problems of his era not once but twice...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree (at least until that visitor from Porlock barged in...)
CAUTION: POET ON PAIN MEDS
R.D. Laing gives two examples of dream-spillage suggesting it’s not passive but playful...
A dream-fable of lemons who are really orange-people infected by a spore turns out to be about me...
Windsor McCay's dream-comic "Little Nemo" is spectacular, but plotless and passive. Or is it? Dreamwork is gradual...
Loewi thought nerve impulses were transmitted chemically, not electrically. But he couldn’t prove it, until one night...
A nightmare. I go lucid as the bullets tear through me. Yet I go on with the dream! Why?...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARISH VIOLENCE
I fell asleep reading a book I'd read years before. I finished it in my dreams. Every word in place. How?
Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see...
CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE
Our dream-group's dreams had a lot of imagery in common: circles, groups, meditation. I fused them into this piece...
A horror film and Rick Veitch's dream-comix provoke a nightmare warning me that guilt about my dad is wrecking my life...
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’m in San Francisco trying to throw Sauron’s Ring into the Cracks of San Andreas. But a sexy sorcerer steals my sense of I! How can you act without a self?
No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...
The cover of a collection of 11.5 dream-tales in glorious detailed Web-unfriendly black and white....
A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it’s time to pass the gift on...
After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival...
How do we make dream narratives readable, when most readers are raised to think they're nonsense?
The Rem Road I travel every night, from rocks and flesh to spooks and stars...
I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular...
Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember...
CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS
I wake up with my head swollen, full of vivid bewildering experiences, without a clue...
The feud between our magical families is getting ugly. Hawk-Head's dad throws boiling water on me, so I...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
A great teacher abruptly blanks out. Memory loss is scary, but in the empty moment, a deeper fear emerged:
Our ranch has arsonist neighbors who call the cops and blame us for it! Meanwhile, my friend dreams...
My sexual orientation shifts arbitrarily, turned on one second, off the next. Who's at the controls?
CAUTION: SEXUAL CONFUSION
Solve a hieroglyphic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic! But someone doesn't want me solving that riddle...
Find your strength in dreams: facing (and befriending) what you've feared, or fought...
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us...
In an oneirophobic society, it's easy to forget that when you do dreamwork, you're doing basic science. No funding, no team, no lab coat? Can't be science! Unless they mistaught us what science is...
Animal teachers, mostly equine, drag me (as I scream NO!) beyond plain dreamwork into shamanism...
Chapter 1: The Deer Party: by Wayan; 150K, 6 illus.
Chapter 2: Ariane's Honeymoon: by Wayan; 8K
Chapter 3: The Everest Marathon: by Wayan; 1 illus.
Chapter 4: Who'll Be My Love?: by Wayan; 100K, 4 illus.
Chapter 5: Dreamrider: by Wayan; 7K, a nondream interlude
Chapter 6: Half Shaman, Half Statesman: by Wayan; 170K, 4 illus.
Chapter 7: Eight To A Horn: by Wayan; 2 illus.
Chapter 8: Black Magic: by Wayan, 7 illus.
Chapter 9: Misfits On Mars: by Wayan; 300K, 7 illus.
In my dreams, a co-worker tells me HER dreams. Their focus is utterly unlike mine! Dream goals differ...
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
Why am I an outsider? Can I change? Do I want to? Even my dreams don't know. Then I wake to find my meditation itself was a dream, and the answer; as much of an answer as I'm going to get.
Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..."
A warning from my spirit wife, Silky, about the World Dream Bank. Building a cathedral of classic dreams is all very well, but what about NEW dreams?
CAUTION: NUDITY
You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it?
A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier?
I wander a sunken maze, meet a playful woman, find a hidden treasure. Meanwhile, my friend Zooop...