A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge.
I fall in love with a diplomat from a hive mind. Am I luring her into dangerous individuality?
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.
An old actor tells me "I met Hitler when we were both babies. I knew what was coming and I wanted to kill him, but...
I dream I'm being slandered by the leaders of a dream organization! Turns out it's quite true...
The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock of squirrels to seek revenge. Should I let go?
A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman, starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)...
CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY
A capsule history of a taboo that changed startlingly over 3000 years... does sin depend on timing?
CAUTION: SEX TALK, TABOOS
As humans settle infospace, will we cheat other species trying to evolve into people?
CAUTION: DISTURBING
The gods of our cave-past and star-future fight over us--using us, of course. After I see the toll it's taking on a bonobo buddy of mine, I decide to bring the war back home, and go gunning for God--BOTH of them...
CAUTION: APES AND EXPLOSIVES DON'T MIX
I meet a sexy seal-girl. Being single and desperate, I overlook a slight values conflict...
CAUTION: DISGUSTING JOB
My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die...
CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES
A woman who posed as a Starfleet officer discovers other frauds on board. She blows the whistle on them...
Coco Chanel's fashion workers all want me to have (public) sex with Coco's cat, so she'll stop screwing them financially...
CAUTION: SEX KITTENS
I explore a zone lost in Shroedinger probabilities, and meet time-ghosts who want to collapse into reality...
I learn from the crows of Oz why loneliness and even tragedy are vital for a living universe...
Studies confirm that prayer can heal. So can curses harm? Yet fearing curses leads back to witch-hunts...
CAUTION: DISTURBING IMPLICATIONS, IF TRUE
I'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, RACISM, GUILT
A doctor lures me into his office. What he turns out to be scares me less than how I defend myself...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, ARACHNOPHOBIA
Dr Who, that BBC perennial, allies with Death. An alarming turn-around! What's he up to?
CAUTION: NICE ALIEN GOES BAD?
After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor...
A staring Eye tries to break me, though his birds rebel in sympathy. But the cats and robots flay me. Yet I refuse to die...
A time-traveling historian’s caught in a moral dilemma: warn an ancient prince he died of a fall in her history books? What do you owe history?
Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter... but what can he lure us with? What do we want?
Our team acquires unnoticeability, and sets out to free the Hick from the Submerged Court. But is that wise?
I'm detective Travis McGee's lover, so I know I'm doomed. My solution is drastic...
CAUTION: HARD-BOILED HANDGUNS
I'm a fat guy hired as a temp by some unethical gods. Or are they trying to teach me something?
We're children seeking gold in a fairy wood. We dig where the elf-kids played, but their parents show up...
I find myself sketching the slope of progress up to the coming singularity, and suddenly seeing a hidden stability...
I stalk a platoon of levitating surf-bunnies who may be out to bomb a Greenpeace submarine...
My part in the revolution in Guinea-Bissau: substantial, but not exactly planned. I just wanted out...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I...
Greenwood dreams he finds a severed hand on a mantelpiece. The next day it happens! But he sees no moral, so he dismisses it...
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?
James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
A book claims Hitler's circle was a cult, not a party, out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream...
CAUTION: RABID RANTING
I'm a hobbit woman in Los Angeles, hiding a magic weapon from Sauron. No, not THAT weapon...
The Goddess's harp, that calls in the seasons, just passed on. But the new harper has a shocking admission...
I'm a librarian in an English village hit by waves of new philosophies and lifestyles. And I learn what works:
From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new...
Cilda Spitzer and Hillary Clinton sentence America's bimbos to a shitty fate. But what of their cheating husbands?
Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry...
Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it?
A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins...
CAUTION: CARTOON VIOLENCE
I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need a Dragon...
Alien abductions upset us--being studied, not greeted as people. But how do we treat animals? Do we create the gap we expect and then observe? That night, I dream one dog on a leash paralyzes a civilization...
I dreamt an epic poem on a sinister ruined city now home only to reptiles. I woke with at least a hundred lines, but...
Phyllis Schlafly, who killed the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam... Can I learn the lesson of the tree?
CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO!
I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used...
CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE
A cannibal friend of mine is shocked at our burial customs, and argues his case in court using crabs...
We hippies won, but now we're backward and isolated; it's time we joined the rest of our alternate Earth...
Robert Coles wrote a book on kids' moral sense, but his examples don't tell me what they tell him...
A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now...
I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience...
My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels...
I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I force the governor's chief aide to tour the new prisons for us artists, fags, and niggers. He's appalled--but how many more noses must I rub in the governor's racism?
Two child artists mail themselves to me in their paint kit, and start a painting orgy that gets messy...
CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, OR MAYBE PEDOPHOBIA
Plato never did say what shed the light that cast those shadows on his cave wall. I find out.
CAUTION: CUT-RATE APOCALYPSE
When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a racist plot...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM
Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy, until her friend Kay--a pixy--decides to knock some sense into her cunt...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, EMBARRASSING SITUATION, NASTY LOVE SPELL
An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-headed man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out...
Two mimes terrorize our art class in a stretchable bear-suit. At least we HOPE it's a suit...
After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival...
My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born...
CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow deep social change is. How we cling to our worldviews!
Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs! My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy...
CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM
I face two gunmen fleeing an invasion of dragons I support--since I'm a dragon inside. But dragons are more humane than humans...
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
A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back?
CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT?
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly...
I took my cellphone into the shower. I couldn’t find the shampoo, and idly typed SHAMPOO in, and...
CAUTION: NOW YOU KNOW WHO STOLE YOUR ODD SOCKS
A man who wants to love and respect all life has unwanted kitchen guests: a wave of slugs...
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
I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters...
CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME
I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning history of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit the world it came from, to find it has a curious variant...
CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
Our tennis game's spoiled by rubber rackets, fierce grandmas, Good and Evil (those identical twins) and a bully on stilts...
In a city crawling across a marshy world, I find a detonating bomb frozen in a time-ball. Why do they bear this risk?
Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake...
I've always been scared of tornadoes, until I went lucid and became one...
CAUTION: HORNY TORNADO
Masked champions of Good and Evil fight, peeling off layers till they're elven-thin--what's left to hide?...
In a wood full of snipers, Martin has a hard moral choice: lead, leave or turn in a group of strangers who may be spies...
I go half-mad and massacre a whole cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm one of the cult members, struggling to ignore the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name.
I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre.
CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION
I'm an intelligent rabbit in an alphamale's harem, organizing a feminist movement...
After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
I'm a saurian forced to duel with a volatile friend. Wanting to fight fair, I don't just file down my spurs...