A late-night conversation with the proud developer of a new concept in South Asian convenience dining...
I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Mall Dictator (of all people) helps me start to heal, and learn to fly...
CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE
I don't know beans about right action, so the master chef of the Bean Bar, Kokoro, teaches me the stages of true mastery...
In a world where respectable men wear masks, an old, old man rebels in the crudest way he can...
A visit to a world where they fear blue soup ends in death and resurrection, so I'm pissed at my boss--God.
CAUTION: DEATH, REBIRTH, SACRILEGE, JOB BURNOUT
I seek a stolen magic necklace, but end up dating the thief, an elf-queen with STRANGE taste in cookery...
CAUTION: BAD SOUP
Stalin's police held my fiancee Helen incommunicado. But I dreamt of her prison, cellmate, and the strange game they played...
My friend stuffs a broken feeder with birdseed. I worry it'll attract too many wild birds. He laughs "Exactly!"...
I'm bad. I'm really bad. I know I shouldn't have done it. But my mail-order breasts were late...
CAUTION: BREAST THEFT
I'm being stalked in the woods outside a modern art museum. My stalker's a huge skeletal cat--Giacometti's cat...
A cricket actress I know makes it into the Dynasty of the Gods! Or is it the TV soap "Dynasty"?...
On the Euphrates, one crocodile eats all his kin, bloating monstrously. But when a winged ship appears, he feigns remorse...
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
Troutmet the moon-pigeon, Burtra the blackbird, a talking acacia, and my dead dad and gardener give me afterworld-advice...
Peering through a spacetime portal, I suspect not all the dinosaurs went extinct--would we spot an ancient Singularity?
My hunting license won’t let me legally shoot a giraffe or ibex, but I do bag a prime Macy’s salesman...
CAUTION: LICENSE TO KILL
Dinner with Dracula goes well, considering, except for the mayonnaise. But suddenly I'm drowning! People don't see or hear me. Am I a ghost, am I dead or alive? And how would anyone notice?
A month of dreams full of science fiction: galactic navigation, spacedragons, oppressed fairies, alien love...
The sparrow died in the ashes, but the dove in my hands became a blue cloud. I drank it, thinking "This will benefit us all"...
Concerned about my health, I up my fiber intake. But not from the usual sources, though...
CAUTION: BAD DIETARY ROLE MODEL
A bug with a horse-skull face reappears in scene after scene of this dream of sabotage and betrayal. I only know I feared it...
That levitating bear's not tightrope-walking--she rides a goat strung like soap-on-a-rope. A goat that's me! I'm eating...
CAUTION: UGH!
I have 'fire in the belly', so I cheer up--if the magazines are right, I'll be President. But it's just bad food...
CAUTION: BELLYACHING
The terror of Navy breakfast, the joy of filterfeeding, how to marry pudding, and a sniper lunch with kisses...
I felt like my heart was in my stomach. My friend Lyx opened me up and confirmed it was. She scolded me for eating it...
CAUTION: URP
My horse and I dove into a lagoon and sought buried treasure on the sea-floor. What are we really after?
A woman discovers that her new use for a truck with a telescoping arm has philosophical consequences...
Green Day singer Billie Joe hocked a lugie on me in concert. I felt blessed...
CAUTION: EWWW
A lecturer tries to help the homeless founder of Hamm's Beer, robbed by bankers. But the talk may harm more than help...
I grew extra penises which bud off me like fruit. So I fry them up like sausages, and...
CAUTION: GENITALIA FOR LUNCH
My best friend is a cat. Problem is, I'm a rare hawk--a Cat-Eater. I never, ever would, but...
A revival meeting goes bad--hell gapes, suicides jump, mutton turns out not to be. If you sup with the devil, carry a long fork...
I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine, who ends up in a showdown in a shaman's bar...
Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request...
I'm Joe Leaphorn, in (of all places for a Navaho detective) a coven in San Francisco watching a creamy...
I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore their heart's desires unconstrained by matter...
CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISON PLUS NUDE UNICORNS AND LEMURS
Mistress Abbot dreams if she eats a jackfish her child will be great. Next morning one swims into her waterbucket...
A bewildering dream of a boy's borrowed bath, absconding renters' furniture and fly-eating turns real a few weeks later...
I'm in the kitchen making a mess--kneading pasta dough on the bookcase. If my mom comes in and sees...
Pretty much everyone in my school is a bloodsucking alien, but, come to think of it, so what?
CAUTION: SEX, VAMPIRES, SEX WITH VAMPIRES, BUT NICE VAMPIRES
I wake up as someone else. I go through her working day, till Captain Kirk comes to take me to...
Out of a Campbell's soup can poured life force: someone's last breath...
I'm in what seems to be a village of very conservative Muslims. But they're really alien castaways...
Our cowboy posse tracks a fugitive to a strange amethyst mine, where we're offered peculiar jobs...
How'd that spider, dragon and T. rex get in my soup? I skip lunch. Dig in the garden, but scaly heads pop out to nip at me. Persistent!
A new Eve asks the Time Commission to send her back to Ethiopia 45,000 years ago. But they're shy Moomintrolls, not humans...
A cannibal friend of mine is shocked at our burial customs, and argues his case in court using crabs...
I'm hiking through the Catskills when a gigantic amoeba comes slipping over the hills...
I love a cute vampire. She's willing to go on a diet. Even so, do I have enough blood to spare?
My friend Carol and I are carrots. We crawl out of the dirt, through the kitchen window, and end up happily in soup...
Down at the tideline, a man dressed in seaweed disproves John Donne's adage...
Mom gave me cookies for my three-year solo spaceflight. Special cookies for both ends of me...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BAD SEX ADVICE
An alien beach scene--as seen through eyes that see bodies’ energy fields more than surface forms...
In her kitchen she offers me shortcake. She's short herself, for she gives her all to everyone--only a bodiless head is left...
An alien woman makes a mess of our economy, ecology, world--but insists she wants to be my friend...
Patches the kitten, my alter ego, paws at flying fish who are also toast-slices...
At a party I meet a friend I thought was dead. She’s become a small talking rabbit made of cake, and I...
CAUTION: UGH
I dream of a half-pony half-human girl who can't eat either hamburgers or hay. She figures out an appropriate diet...
I was just a street rat, but I danced with the princess at a ball, and fell in love. Three rich suitors pulled their blades...
I find myself sitting on toy trains and fake snow as I'm told a fable: how a herd of department-store Santas got lost in a blizzard...
Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
A doctor recommends Ellis try "selvdrolla", but he gets off so much on the strange name he forgets the prescription...
One night I had to sleep above a cheese shop. I dreamt I was trapped in a huge cheese, as a horde of rats gnawed...
CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
Compulsively honest spirit-women with waterjugs invade my friend's house.
I wake to find my girlfriend's obsessing on hair loss. To calm her, I babble about limb loss...
and wake again to find she was a dream too.
My friend sleeps with an alien. He's ugly, but I don't care. What bothers me is how he eats bits of himself...
CAUTION: SEX, RECREATIONAL CANNIBALISM, PROSTITUTION, THE KITCHEN SINK
I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself...
Infected glass-cuts scar the vegan alligators in the park. As part of a cleanup, I'm told to EAT one...
Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists and then an impossible fruit...
CAUTION: NUDE SCIENTISTS
Lost in the snow, I must either give my baby to a stranger or let my dad put him in a box, safe, forever...
My family moves into a damp basement. My dad just sneers at the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..."
I'm a Lapp boy in northern Finland, studying shamanism. So why do I pour coffee down a driveway?
I want to drink the elixir, but negative twenty spoons block me! Can I remove them? With warped teacup logic and reciprocals…
I'm in a department store trying on clothes when I notice there's a large zucchini growing from my crotch...
CAUTION: SQUASHY PENIS, ICKY RECIPE
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY...
CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE
I meet a woman on an oxcart who's sure we all want to poison her--but that's made her forgiving, even noble...
CAUTION: MADNESS
Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone...
CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)...
I was anorexic for years before I found I was allergic to many foods--I had good reason not to eat!...
When I flee the Psychodrama Circus to avoid being stabbed, it explodes! But it's the sushi that really upsets me...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI
An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
You get to fill one tray. Guns sex jewels pot hamburgers TV boredom God power thrills love? Choose!
An alien tiger and his human girlfriend show me a cube of raw flesh, and herd me to a house... but why?
I'm a mortal time-tech, living in the Commune of the Gods, when I meet Little Red Riding Hood...
How the world was really created. God said "Let it be well done" and it was well done.
CAUTION: TECHNOLOGICAL BLASPHEMY
Why's Mexico City built where it is? And why is corn called "ears"? It turns out these questions are linked...
Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence...
CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART
After a visit from our landlady's angry, crazy son, a pack of vicious dinosaurs invades our house...
I help a brilliant, starving composer turn his family curse into a profitable business...
An invisible monster is eating my lettuce patch. It casts a huge blurry shadow, leaves footprints, but...
When bent, some dried noodles shatter. The strands have auras like mine! Parts of me? Or are they...
I'm lucid but paralyzed. A weird child spies on me; is she controlling me? Then I'm having sex--but if I come, I'll wake up! Then some thugs jump me. I make sure they won't bother me again, but... is everyone in this dream out to distract me?
CAUTION: SEX, MUGGER-STOMPING
I have a long chat with two talking songbirds. Next I'm a parrot, living in rainforest. And then the mail comes...
Six generations in the future, I find a poodle who can defuse the bomb my rival girlfriends can't...
CAUTION: MAD SCIENTIST, EXHIBITIONIST GIRLFRIEND, POODLE HUMILIATION
A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: no sex, meat, alcohol, or cooked food; just meditate in rural solitude...
CAUTION: EXTREMISM
At work, a toxic potluck. I say no! And dream I'm a scent-oriented alien tossing back stink-grenades...