Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit... and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch.
A lecturer tries to help the homeless founder of Hamm's Beer, robbed by bankers. But the talk may harm more than help...
A phrase spoken by a workmate triggers two dreams, the parents of this poem; it emerged a few days later as you see it...
CAUTION: POLITICAL RAGE, SURREALISM
Dreams of my childhood--bootlegger dad, critical mom, gun-happy uncles, slaughtered squirrels, slaughtered Jews...
In Japan, sick in bed, reading a book on radiation sickness, I dream of a restorative ritual for trees...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
In the hills above a polluted shore, I find hidden valleys with huge rare trees, and realize it's my choice...
I save our horses from a fire, but they run back in. Then it's my family I must save from themselves. At last, it's my turn...
While my brother was dying, I had a succession of vivid premonitory dreams about him...But I was in no way prepared for...
As the steamroller flattened me I tried to rise above it all and my body became quite a lovely stained-glass window...
One wizardry-classmate summons strange beings; another's learned how not to. Some things should be avoided at rush hour...
On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
A new Eve asks the Time Commission to send her back to Ethiopia 45,000 years ago. But they're shy Moomintrolls, not humans...
I loved the feel of the green snake, and reassured my friends it wasn't poisonous, but really...
George Bush leads a hill-tribe raid against the hill-tribe led by Osama bin Laden... and I'm stuck between...
CAUTION: ANTI-HEROES, POLITICAL PREDICTION
The jeweled fish over San Francisco grew and grew until it landed and they spoke the secret code to me...
A children's performance of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. Why do I think it's all about politics?
CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY
Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists and then an impossible fruit...
On the waterfront, I meet a seductive girl. Well, guy. Well, serial killer. Um, I think I'll leave now...
CAUTION: HOMOPHOBIA OR SURVIVAL INSTINCT?
I meet my own muse--the muse of all of us, perhaps--scooping water from a sacred well...
I'm in a barn full of peaceful animals lit by a golden glow. And then they all blacken, crinkle, and corrugate like burnt paper...
Improv-dancing with my sister, I get turned on. But then a repressed Asian girl joins our dance, and...
CAUTION: INCEST MENTIONED. OOPS, TOO LATE.
4 AM. A train wakes us all. We watch it pass, thinking of lost friends. And then I wake again to find...
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain...
In a city crawling across a marshy world, I find a detonating bomb frozen in a time-ball. Why do they bear this risk?
A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails...
I'm a ghost watching future archeologists dig up a site of my people and get it so wrong...
I meet William Blake! He says "The will is given us that we may know the delights of surrender." While in my bedroom...
As I write a sad sex dream, a madman curls up fetally in the road outside my window. I put off calling 911 too long, and...
A glowworm and nightwatch beetle help out a lost crying ant-woman. It's not always a bug-eat-bug world...
Blake dreams he's a young queen with an uneasy relationship to her guardian angel...
I'm trapped in a cutesy cartoon universe! Worse, to judge a beauty contest, I have to see past our style to our souls...
I dreamt my friend Anne Sexton's death was on the news. I woke, the phone rang, and I learned she'd...
CAUTION: SUICIDE
I visit a Tibetan monastery with great cellphone reception from the gods. But all their calls are to help other people...
Soon after my friend and mentor James Merrill died, I had recurring, elusive dreams about him...
My dead friend Charlie and his sister and I are driving around Lake Erie. We know it’s a dream and he’s dead, and yet we’re joyous...
My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall...
Our dream-group's dreams had a lot of imagery in common: circles, groups, meditation. I fused them into this piece...
I have to kiss a mess of cats. Fishy, but I'm not chicken. My real beef is with the humans watching...
I'm going mad! I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters...
Through twin gates of dream -- Dream-castles on the sea, lovely and lame -- A surfer of the San Andreas Fault
My sister and I swim and wade round a weirdly shrunken Pacific, until, near Fiji, we reach the Drain...
I interview my own metabolism. Trouble in Cellville! I've got strikers and usurpers. But at least no invaders...
I led a blind man through a vast art museum underground. But focused on guiding him, I too was blind to the beauty...
After my mom's death, my dad starts dating again. He treats his dates like dirt. What can I do?
My friend’s mom is a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he’s a crocodile, watch out!
I fall in love with a dancing rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner. How can I save her?
Alchemy demands I kill ten swallows. I refuse! Instead, twelve birds and I fuse and fly over a magic wood...
"But what is wrong with my friends' faces? Why have they changed that way to wood?"
Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite...
CAUTION: WANTON MURDER
I play the lovers in a teen romance: shy abused boy, insecure girl. But I get tired of the script, and...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she’s worthy...
A dream-fable of lemons who are really orange-people infected by a spore turns out to be about me...
A surreal dream of a levitating man reeled in like a kite, the night after I’d flown from New York to Hawai’i...
I meet a monster--half earthworm, half giraffe. Then I realize she’s kind of cute...
At the beach I dive into deep water to save my drowning friend Kathy, and find it’s not so clear who’s who...
Landing in Hawaii, I dream of a magical twilit cove I must swim across. The eve of leaving, there it is...
After a year of intense dreamwork, Berryman rejects Freud and accepts open-ended dreaming...
CAUTION: SIXTIES STONER REBELLING AGAINST SPELLING... and grammar... and punctuation...
Half asleep, I scrawl a nightmare of trying to rescue gasping boyfish, but my dreamwriting goes wrong too...
Money, power, race and gender don't stifle my friends who work as much as hierarchical structure...
The moon invites me to go flying, but I get tired of magic and just want to go shopping...
A monster's out to eat my dog--and maybe me. We get cornered in the barn...
Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth.
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
Getting rid of lice was easy. Harder was quelling the gossip and rumors from my co-workers and boss...
CAUTION: A LOUSE OF A BOSS
I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect...
A pod of whales in the sky and a circle of children dressed like seed-pods both beg me to interpret them...
Walking around my brother's farm, I met this goat with a human head. It seemed like he'd been playing with matches...
I see great towers rising into a fog zone--or is it another universe, with different rules? How do you draw both worlds?
I dream of German dirges I don't know. I hum them for a friend, who shocks me by asking "Have you abandoned any children, or burned a manuscript?" Right on both counts...
I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape...
A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied...
I face a barrage of deadly challenges out of every action film I've seen and every game I've ever played...
I'm the First Lady. I have a dream that my husband's assassinated, and wake and try to warn him...
Someone's prowling outside my window. I'm paralyzed in bed, but I force myself into action...
I dreamed of speckled eggs, Caribbean drug traffickers and of almost drowning near a sinking boat...
When I met someone attractive, my head flamed, burning my body like a wax candle...
Jung Chang’s exposé of Mao's brutal deeds and legacy provoke dreams I demand that leaders listen...
At the end of my long, tiresome tour of Hell, it's feeding time in the cage of the Manson cult...
CAUTION: SO MEAT REALLY IS MURDER!
An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW--no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void!
Sprague De Camp says religions seduce us with emotional comfort. Is dreamwork science or faith?
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
I’m an Asian kid in Pacifica, California. My parents annoy me, so I offer them for sale on Craigslist. A cop appears...
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”...
In cave times, while the men were out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...
To fight the drug trade, cute little blonde cops plant packets on men in the park. And when I resist...
CAUTION: BAD COPS
At a beach, a mob of kids stage an intricate practical joke full of coordinated “accidents.” How many of the jokers knew the end was death?
CAUTION: MALICE
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?
A bomb's planted on our ship! But when a teen finds it, rather than fetch a responsible adult...
Dreamworlders, exploring our world, tell me of home. Their known dreamworld is just a little patch on a huge globe...
Out of a Campbell's soup can poured life force: someone's last breath...
I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species...
A vast sea-world with 8 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species...
CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
An owl flew at me, and I fused with it. The next thing I knew, I was a redtail hawk...
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...
For about five years now I have been dreaming of this guy. Different dreams, same guy...
I found myself in a cafe in Amsterdam--or was it Sevilla?--with Kevin, who I knew was dead...
CAUTION: GRIEF
I dream my watch is way off and I’ll be late. When I wake, I check my daughter’s watch. They agree. Can’t BOTH be wrong... can they?
On the run I meet a lycan, a pirate, and a mermaid. She causes a flood, and something floats by I just have to grab...
CAUTION: IMPLIED SEX
No matter who I dream I am, twin secret agents dog me, eating my soup, playing my games...
CAUTION: EGREGIOUS PHILOSOPHY
I’m a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck...
I’ve had premonitory dreams of friends’ deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action...
In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits...
Lions trap me in an African cave with only coffee, paper and pens! Is this what it takes to get me to write?
Hillary Clinton hid her cancer, but the GOP found out. So a monster kidnaps Rainbow Brite, and...
Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush were having a secret love affair, and I was sharing their bed...
Hillary Clinton was trying to seduce me, and doing a pretty good job, too...
I found myself defending humanity before an astral jury, begging them to delay the great die-back...
Agassiz, faced with a fossil he had to crack open, was unsure where to strike. But for three nights he dreamed...
A knight falls in love with a fey woman, until her previous victims warn him in a nightmare that she is...
CAUTION: GOTH TO THE MAX
I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war...
CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS
I'm on a wild trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom and my dead dad... and who's that other guy?
I'm hiking through the Catskills when a gigantic amoeba comes slipping over the hills...
"I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it..."
I get speared by Irish warriors, slipped an LSD dose, chased by giant spiders, torpedoed--but hey, I'm not bored!
Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request...
Kekule dreamed solutions to the thorniest structural chemistry problems of his era not once but twice...
Loewi thought nerve impulses were transmitted chemically, not electrically. But he couldn't prove it, until one night...
Towers, before he was killed, argued Terman was wrong: geniuses are often isolated and maladjusted...
CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
I dreamed all the creatures of the world were dancing around a maypole. My friends and I sculpted a totem pole from the dream...
Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-fragments, wasn't so sure...
I'm the only one who can stop the plot to kill the Pope--but if he keeps shrinking like that, will it matter?
CAUTION: RECOVERING CATHOLIC
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 I'm telling a tall tale about a cat-funeral with hung-over mice pulling the hearse. But it all turns a bit too real...
I'm at a Robert Bly camp for men only. But I'm no man--not even human--some faun or satyr-like species...
CAUTION: A TEMENOS IS A SACRED PHALLIC IMAGE
Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth...
Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire, a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm?
I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself...
I was working in the library, talking to this woman who announced "I think I'll grow my horn now..."
Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all...
CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp and join an army of models learning self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by...
CAUTION: SKINNY GIRLS WHO MAKE YOU WANT TO BARF--no wait, that's a bad idea!
News of a new national park fused with a science show on cleaner-fish spur a fantasy of dolphins, cats and...
CAUTION: FISH ORGY; MOCKS THE ANGEL MORONI, TOO
I keep feeling I'm a reincarnated rainforest creature just passing for human. When all I want is...
CAUTION: TOBACCO
A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside...
When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum, she also bares a racist plot...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM
At boot camp for sex slaves, a rapist makes me a surprisingly tempting offer. But it's really not about sex at all, is it?
CAUTION: ORAL SEX, OUTRAGEOUS COMPARISON
I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook and notes...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS
I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--a true other life. It wasn't Earth, and we weren't human.
I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown woman, marry and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right...
If 1500K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 450K, 2: VOYAGE, 680K, 3: BACK 400K.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
A rabbit shaman orders his apprentice to drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. Ow! Why? Well...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR
I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a peaceful breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend...
CAUTION: GAY MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
Ari neglects Wendy till she doubts she's sexy. I show her she is. But am I using her too?
CAUTION: SEX TALK