I meet the Child who Dreams the World, go to a lucid-dreaming party, and find the Body under the Bed...
A bizarre little dream proving just how physical the impact of a dream is on the body...
Why'd I have to get my big inspiration deep in a lake in the Land of the Lizard People high in the Andes?
The Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to fill in and explain things to the waking world...
A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge.
After reading Jung's dreams, I have a counter-Jungian dream. So different from his! And mine has some pointed advice...
CAUTION: NUDE STATUES
Aristotle keeps marrying my friends and fucking them up. So I challenge Mr. Logic to a shamanic duel...
CAUTION: THE F-WORD. OOPS, TOO LATE! LESBIAN FISH, TOO.
Jungian angels at a conference of dreams test my progress. But I'm all backwards: did the hard stuff first...
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
I asked my dreams why my back hurt. They told me: pregnancy, marsupial pouches, snapping turtles...
No matter who I dream I am, twin secret agents dog me, eating my soup, playing my games...
CAUTION: EGREGIOUS PHILOSOPHY
There are many astral planes--this world's just the cellar. A cat, a bird, a bear and I guard the astral stair...
As I hike across the tundra, to win a bet with God, I realize I've subtly betrayed my dreams...
A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her...
CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
Throw a dream-crystal, or dangle it by a thread, and it'll point the way to go...
CAUTION: NUDITY
My therapist changes into a good ol' boy, but I can handle that. It's the Board of Kibitzers behind him...
A sexy encounter with two robotic girls hopping a night train outside Portland...
CAUTION: SEX TEXT
Princess Chinchilla and I use an umbrella to escape the Wizard. Now to escape the Dream Researchers!...
A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness...
CAUTION: WET T SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
I'm a centaur. I never left Eden. I'm still in the Garden. You are too, every night, in dreams...
CAUTION: BREASTS
I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office?
A dream of exhibitionist girls playing with breast milk turns out not to be symbolic, but psychic...
CAUTION: BREASTS
A mystical vision of the Cosmic Egg gets messy when it hatches and the Bird escapes...
God flames me for putting pagan stuff on the Net, and we end up suing each other. Then the riots begin...
CAUTION: HITMEN AND HERESY
My friend’s mom is a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he’s a crocodile, watch out!
A man learns to hop between time-branches, but like all transportation, this has epidemiological risks...
To prove I really am lucid-dreaming, I let a streetcar run me over. Mm, crunchy! Then I find out...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT OM...
I live in a cupola atop a Victorian house in the Haight-Ashbury, but that's not the City out my windows...
The new smart beds stimulate your dreams--but how to program them? We can't even manage VCRs...
On Thursdays, in Tungusia, looking at your watch could save your life...
CAUTION: DEFAMES SIBERIANS
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”...
Round the ring of twelve worlds and their twelve gods, seeking one god who's giving me grief...
While we're making crop-circles in the field of psychotherapy, my hypnotist and I start to argue...
A house with a fire-ghost infestation. Worse than termites! And the ghosts tell me it's my fault....
This dream's not about a man whose dream lovers keep materializing till the bed overflows. This dream's about who those lovers are, and what the neighbors will think...
CAUTION: SEX
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?
A novel on a modern woman called to become a shaman echoes my real life too closely...
I meet two women in dream-prison. One's a giant, one a miniature. A fairy? She says, 'No, I'm..."
An experimental helmet knocks me out. I'm groggy, miserable, till I learn what it did to others...
Fighting vampire archers is risky enough WITH proper armor! And all I have is dream-journals...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm the composer Schumann, till a nightmare jumps me and I wake. And wake. And wake...
A nightmare turns to a sex dream turns to a weird demonstration just how out-of-body a dream can get...
CAUTION: PUZZLING SEX
A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane...
CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER
What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts and feelings invade you? When other's BODIES invade yours, it's molestation...
Night thoughts. Are they eggs? Dreams? Worlds? Phases of the moon?
CAUTION: NEGATIVE BREASTS
We escape the trolls, but then our author, Tolkien, breaks in to explain a word, and the rest of the night...
I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST...
CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS
Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood, full of talking tigers. I must enter it to live a while...
A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred...
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
A pod of whales in the sky and a circle of children dressed like seed-pods both beg me to interpret them...
Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter... but what can he lure us with? What do we want?
I date a girl with a mysterious syndrome, but soon I become a monkeyfaced con-man. And SHE becomes...
We're children seeking gold in a fairy wood. We dig where the elf-kids played, but their parents show up...
So I looked out my window and saw this guy burying a tiny robed woman in a trench in the street...
I dream I'm addressing a dream convention, but I'm autistic! I MUST act bizarre, just to function...
James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! Only he sees, not HIS shadow, but MINE...
Some Christian oneirologists barge into the Haunted Firehouse. But I pose for nude unicorn photos, and...
CAUTION: DUMB CHRISTIANS, EXHIBITIONIST UNICORNS, ETC.
I read Stephen Hawking, and dream I'm in the Quantum Desert, full of bridges, holes, and loops--like the microstructure of spacetime. But it's not alien at all--it's HOME!
I'm a holy man sneaking into a sewerpipe at the beach, to pop anxiety pills in shame. Do they even work?
CAUTION: CHEMICAL CRUTCHES
The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake...
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....
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are...
Dreamworlders, exploring our world, tell me of home. Their known dreamworld is just a little patch on a huge globe...
I dream of a scary king who offers to bake my dreams to strengthen them. Then my friend Mark calls...
To investigate a criminal couple, I have to lie. And that's hard, since all my lies turn true...
CAUTION: NEW AGE AND FILM NOIR DON'T MIX
Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see...
I'm chasing a guy named Will (short for Willful Conformity) through the classes of a mad dance academy...
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
A fan's in love with Michael Stipe of R.E.M. I see no hope for him, since his idol's straight...
My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous!
CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF
I meet a shapeshifting dream-mentor who warns of plague and war (note the date). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved...
CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA
I’m a puma with a night job as a cellist. But my day job with The Architectives is the bizarre one...
A mermaid friend invites me to see an underwater experiment in the Golden Gate...
CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
I'm cold and dark and disoriented! What am I doing wrong? Nothing--I'm just halfway to Alpha Centauri...
A ritual in a future society makes me laugh. I tease a futurian, insist it's really a old Miwok rite...
I have all the signs of multiple personality but memory gaps. But YOU all have gaps every night...
CAUTION: BACKGROUND SEX
The smog of Portland is so bad it hides the dream-towers! Only one thing will heal it: making music...
I rise in animal form, and fly to a world as coherent as this one, guided by a greenhaired girl...
CAUTION: NUDITY
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?
A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it’s time to pass the gift on...
Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea...
I escape a trap via a plane I manifest. Lucid? Not at all! Why should Poirot bother with such abstractions?
The child who runs with wild horses finds the secret spy-room of dreams! But no one's watching...
Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed. I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch? Why?
After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival...
I'm riding a train through a tunnel in Marin full of symbolism. I wake, interpret it all, and open the paper...
I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation! Why do I think this is all about money?
A Borges story of a were-tiger provokes a dream of a ranch crawling with weird women. But I LIKE them...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake, while I dream that a different kind of raven gives me weird advice...
My dreams show me how one world can be a fiction within another that's a fiction within the first! Dreams and fictions aren't simulations but windows. So be nice to your dream-figures--it turns out you ARE one...
The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams...
I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular...
I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I was late for work. They thought I was spacy...
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold...
CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
I find a lost book of Freud's with a radical idea: Jung's Shadow is real, but there's a second Shadow:
A dream-lecturer says Shadows aren't just what we hate or fear, but what we admire yet see as "not us"...
CAUTION: IDEAS
A great teacher abruptly blanks out. Memory loss is scary, but in the empty moment, a deeper fear emerged:
I'm teaching in a wizard's college near Mt Shasta when one astral world decides to occupy another...
I distract a mad gunner in a crowd--I suspect I'm dreaming, but still... This may be noble, but is it healthy?
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON THE NEXT CRAZED KILLER YOU MEET
My sisters play with dice. Miriel can influence them telekinetically, but she can't hold them: too young to have thumbs!
Big Blonde and her officemates don't believe in flight; but the dragonfly-girl I meet hatched in mid-air...
I'm going mad! I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters...
I'm a peace terrorist trapped in Squaw Valley, herded like a mare by a huge stallion made of snow...
And then the dream shifts and I blurt out the truth behind our idiotic waking world! And wake believing it...
My sexual orientation shifts arbitrarily, turned on one second, off the next. Who's at the controls?
CAUTION: SEXUAL CONFUSION
A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know just dreamed... and now I'm unsure whose dream this is..
CAUTION: IDEAS
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for sole...
As I reread decades of my dreams, I see Jung was right: even in times of chaos, soul-work goes calmly on...
I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning history of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts...
Through twin gates of dream -- Dream-castles on the sea, lovely and lame -- A surfer of the San Andreas Fault
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where a swordswoman in a red bikini gives me a unicorn. The next day...
Solve a hieroglyphic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic! But someone doesn't want me solving that riddle...
A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe...
My sister and I are playing cards in the air high over Lake Tahoe. Playing for the world. And she cheats...
I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend...
CAUTION: GAY MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
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...
I led a blind man through a vast art museum underground. But focused on guiding him, I too was blind to the beauty...
After trimming a poem to Silky, my night mare, I dream well-meaning surgeons try to dehorn a unicorn...
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.
I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. Below Haunted Mansion, I meet a green lizard-lady in distress...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE
I have a tummy ache. Our local wizard says "no wonder, with fascists occupying your colon"...
CAUTION: TREATMENT NOT A.M.A.-APPROVED
I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal...
CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM
Most writers search for their unique style. Not me--I struggle to convey unique EXPERIENCES...
You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it?