A monkey who saw a murder and stole the weapon aims at a troopmate and fires. The next evening I hear gunfire, and...
Worried Earth's warming a degree or two? Capsica's mean average temperature is 35°C (63°F) hotter than Earth...
I'm detective Hercule Poirot, but I'm losing my case and my brain--because my story isn't by Agatha Christie, it's a knockoff...
CAUTION: GANGSTERS WEAR PINK DILDOS
I dreamed I was camping by a creek. I went to get the soap and returned to find my baby son face-down in the water...
I'm with a flutist I like, but she's busy playing. So I conjure a second her with the free time to listen to herself with me...
I find a shy sphinx hiding in the corner of a painting in a dull art class. But maybe she's right to hide...
After an article suggests we roam the multiverse in sleep, I dream of three strange names. Awake, I google them and find...
A spacetime traveler inadvertently strands his pacifist vegetarian date in a gun-crazy mob-run town...
CAUTION: DEFAMES BYELORUSSIANS
My loud, spiky, tailed angel of change and potential, and my calm, skeptical devil of gradualism, a star-nosed mole...
The older sorceress I'm in bed with plans to marry me off to a younger woman, but I distract her with my tongue...
CAUTION: BEDROOM HUMOR
Little flying creatures hide in the shadows. But when I focus on them, they attack! Castaneda's teacher looks on amused...
By a lake I've seen in many dreams, four dragons attack. I become one too, and duel them in mid-air...
A month of dreams full of science fiction: galactic navigation, spacedragons, oppressed fairies, alien love...
Haiku by Roswila of a dream of meeting a winged horse, illustrated by her late friend Janet...
I'm flying around a half-built house when I'm cornered by three scary archangels in trenchcoats. But they want my help...
Struggling to recall a magical dream, I suddenly get a single, simple image. ...
I had to sell my horse Shadow, but I missed him so much I painted my love for him. As I finished, a strange impulse led me...
I've been drawing a personification of the World Dream Bank. Nerdy, but most of your readers are nerds...
I dreamed I was riding a lion. A few days later, when my husband suddenly left me, I recalled the dream and...
For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. This year four needs came up over & over...
A giant insect chases me around our school gym. A girl reassures me it's harmless but I'm sure it's a wasp...
I'm a werewolf-girl in love with a gender-dysphoric weredragon in love with a man who's very, very patient with all our shiftiness...
CAUTION: NUDITY (SKIN, FUR and SCALE), SHIFTY PEOPLE (BI, WERE and QUEER)
I'm in the kitchen making a mess--kneading pasta dough on the bookcase. If my mom comes in and sees...
I meet two Peacock Kings bigger than human beings, who chant blessings until I wake with tears drenching my pillow...
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"...
A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real...
A strange thing appeared in the sky. It kept transforming--a light, a sheep, a man. It advised me to stop burning my head...
I was trapped inside a boulder, but as I chanted it melted around me until it resembled a discarded skin...
I'm half-naked at an arty dinner party, talking to a man I really think I ought to recognize... who is he?
CAUTION: TOPLESS JUNGIAN
Awkward newlyweds. Not a love match! Can they learn to work together to save a woman from the Nazis?...
Two medieval women poison one another. One dies in my arms; the other may just survive. Who are they, and must they die?
CAUTION: MURDERERS
I wish I could be as body-free as my neighbor Jenna, hiking nude under the full moon...
A voice told me, "Human beings have a spark of the divine"...
My friend's ignorant of our Congressional race. I loathe Pombo, but I can't pronounce his rival McNerney's name right...
I'm to be beheaded. Guards chant "It's important to enjoy what you're doing." I know my spilled blood will create a work of art...
Bob is at the window asking to be let into my house. He is dressed as Santa Claus; in fact, I think he is...
CAUTION: MURDER ATTEMPT
I must see a community as a whole, and intuit my way out of a sealed room, and spot details, and join a trio in bed...
CAUTION: NUDITY IN LAST DREAM
It's election time in Europe, but the voters have gone crazy. Nazis invade England. In my library, Sarah Palin rots...
CAUTION: POLITICS GONE WACKY
Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But a cat-centaur in the crowd attains enlightenment...
A black beetle points out I'm not needed or at home in the human world, and insists my lifework is elsewhere...
I was in an America where witches are burned and used as landfill, and abused women grow on trees. Yet three of us heal...
CAUTION: CREEPY PARALLEL WORLD
I'm living in an England rendered in chalk. We wander the woods with butterfly nets, ritually hunting the White Deer--if that's what they really are...
As a boy I dreamt my uncle (a calm man) glared at me in red rage; I was terrified. A decade later, in a bar...
I dreamt that over a balcony rail I saw bright-colored, spectacular scenery. Years after, I took a detour in Arizona...
Mother and daughter both dream Mum runs over a little girl. Next morning she spots the girl in the road and misses her. But bystanders seem not to see the child...
I dreamed of a garden in Italy. Arches, roses. Then a bat flew in! The next day, I open a book of Pirandello's plays, to find...
All my life I've had sudden visions showing violent deaths accompanied by headlines naming the victims...
I dreamed I hit and killed a small boy in the road. Three weeks later in Manchester I swerved and just missed the same boy ..
Two photographic developing tanks disappear. I assumed theft til I dreamt they were in a room I'd never seen, in locker FJA 39...
I was at school, walking through the gate to the playing fields, discussing our next match, when a boy crashed into me...
John Lee, sentenced to die, dreamt he walked to the scaffold but the trapdoor stuck. He woke, told his jailors the dream, and...
My wife dreamt where to find her lost umbrella; the next day she did. But the finder said word for word what she had in the dream...
I dreamed the bus lurched, cracking my skull. Next day, on the bus steps as in my dream, I braced myself, and...
I dreamed of a beggar in our house who had been stealing. It was a very small man with a hump. Weeks later...
I dreamt a sparrowhawk perched on my shoulder. Next morning a friend was given a stuffed sparrowhawk. He crept up and...
An orange tiger with wolf ears jumped on me. I was surprised but not scared, as if it were just a big dog.
The next day, shopping, my daughter thrust an orange wolf-eared hand-puppet in my face, jaws open...
I dreamt a farmer gave me 33 eggs in a bucket, returning to hand me 3 more on the stair. I woke, told my family the silly dream...
Eleven years after I dreamt of that green dress and green riverbank and dreamy day, I was convalescing in...
As a boy I dreamt of a war; officers marked the landing-spot of an unexploded black sphere. Years later...
I was officer of the watch in the Southampton. I knew that as we passed an islet a mile ahead, a man would fall overboard...
I dreamed of an explosion--a stabbing pain in my left thigh, right fore-arm, and left eye. Two years later, a grenade...
The jug of chocolate sauce smashed on the tile floor, forming a dark pattern. Then the whole scene melted and, like a film loop, started again. I was terrified. I shouted "Don't touch it!" Screaming in horror I watched the sauce make its predestined shape on the floor...
Examples of inexplicable moods that appear (after the fact) to be reactions to future events...
I'm walking up a churchyard path. My long hair clings to me, damp. Horses wander aimlessly. I'm irresistably drawn to a graveside...
Ann Marten kept dreaming that her stepdaughter had not eloped but was buried under a nearby red barn...
CAUTION: MURDER
I saw the Titanic go down and people struggling frantically in the water. After my second nightmare I told my wife. She urged me to...
A sequence of short dreams full of creatures. They warn I'll face leukemia...
On the anniversary of 9/11, I dreamed a friend was welding nude. In his careful hands, the fire was harmless...
A hulking, intimidating young man is at my door, with two scary dogs. Wait, is that Carl Jung?...
In a domed tower, we all look up bewildered by a statue like an ancient herm, floating in mid-air...
I know we will cross the water surrounding the heart of Jerusalem, but not yet...
At first no one seems interested in my mural-design for the inside of the City Hall dome, but...
I am given a gift of "Nibbling Fruits" which only I may eat--because I've been feeding everyone but me...
A friend who's struggled with lymphoma invites me to sleep in a cave, but I worry I'll be bitten by a rattlesnake...
I'm in my papa's waiting room. I beg him to take a break from his patients now that he's dead, and walk with me...
My little brother catches and rides a fairy goose down steep mountain slopes, demanding it grant his wishes...
I dreamt ghosts visited us, and for each scream, a relative would die. Two of us cried out. That morning the first letter came...
In my dream I looked into a narrow stream that was quite clear yet inky black. This seemed ridiculous at the time...
Suddenly, out of the clouds, a man came shooting down, head first, at a terrific pace. He landed on his head with a sickening...
CAUTION: GRISLY
I dreamed I made my way through a great crowd to find my husband lying dead behind velvet curtains. Two years later...
Someone said "There's been a murder in the Victoria Hotel, and the murderer slept in your house." Three weeks later...
All day I expected a terrible scream, but had no idea why until I heard it. A woman in flames came out of her house...
A large airship crashed onto a hilltop and burst into flame, silhouetting people who tried to escape, but...
As a newsreel showed a Navy flier for the Schneider Trophy Air Race, I felt a violent shock and said "He's going to be killed..."
In an idle moment I held a pencil and asked the air who'd win the Derby. 'Trigo' meant nothing to me, but was listed at 32 to 1, so...
My lover's face is shadowed and we are never alone together. Things slip from film-noir to open nightmare when...
CAUTION: SEX, DEATH, GUILT
I'm being stalked in the woods outside a modern art museum. My stalker's a huge skeletal cat--Giacometti's cat...
A timewarp started to swallow my house. It looked normal from outside, but inside everyone was in a trance...
I'm falling into endless darkness. I feel like screaming, but then I remind myself I'm dreaming. "What is for me here?" I demand. "SHOW ME!" I begin rising toward the stars. Huge metal discs with alien writing rise with me...
A crowd watches from shore as a great glowing meteor descends into the sea. I fear a tsunami, but...
I flew over a forest. I noted the trees were all the same, and told myself to remember this...
A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death...
I asked my dreams "What's my truest purpose?" I dreamed my body was a tree, and a voice said "Chart the growth"...
My kidnappers were desperate: no jobs. I fled them down the berry chute, to the underground strawberry factory where engineers in go-go boots did the berry dance. And the berries...
CAUTION: STRAWBERRY FETISH
My Cambodian village was burned, my family murdered. At 12, I was the oldest survivor; I led a band of kids toward the border...
I hear voices: "The road to success is in Kafkat, in a place called Goshen." I look back, and see seven male shadows...
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?
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
A killer tornado has us trapped in the cellar. I bite my finger and it's boneless--I'm dreaming! I summon a...
I've always been scared of tornadoes, until I went lucid and became one...
CAUTION: HORNY TORNADO
Lucid, I summon a sexy literary character. But he tries to take over my personality and make it his lucid dream...
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore...
First I try to break the sound barrier like my girlfriend. Nope! Then I fly slowly to her apartment. Nothing flashy, but I make it. Last, I flash back to ancient China, where I land at a candle-lit temple dedicated to... me?
I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house...
I sought a dream of Helpers. But rather than give me gifts, they gave me a daunting challenge...
Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night my dream Helpers declared them Sioux...
In a dark void, a bizarre six-armed fur named Shandra is tied up in phone cords. A phone rings, and Shandra coolly says...
CAUTION: TELECOMMUNICATIONS BONDAGE?
A bizarre dragon that runs a toyshop and plans revolution. He has skin and eyes like hematite, black and metallic. His presence instills in you a kind of unsettled awe...
A futuristic science fiction adventure dream. We rode a feathered, bipedal dinosaur, and got chased by...
I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I...
A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one!
I never go on cruise ships but I keep dreaming I'm on one and meet the same man, and marry him--or his brother...
My two moms sell art fabrics designed by these grayish batwinged sisters whose new ad campaign pushes the edge...
CAUTION: ADS WITH NUDE BATS
I dream my son the writer's living above our old family store, the one that failed in the Depression...
A second me punches me in the breast. I fight back, yelling "Bad Nancy! Bad Nancy!" Five months later I find a malignancy...
I mail a packet of letters that will solve everyone's problems, but then a man points out how much we need problems...
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...
Divers made of ice swept the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. Did they cheat? I sought my friend the Sphinx...
Last night, as I slept, I dreamt--illusion blessed!--that I had a beehive, here in my heart...
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity...
A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts?
I dream my daughter's selling two unused guitars. They seemed symbolic until I told her the dream and learned...
I witnessed strikes in Brighton and Devon through the eyes of others; but I felt the Cheltenham impact in my own body...
My dreams are made of lovely carvable jade. Too bad my tools and skills suit our plastic age...
I was teaching a class on democracy in Africa when Idi Amin walked in. The crowd turned violent, but then...
I touch the secret soul of a cancer survivor, upsetting her. To apologize, I become a goofy hopping god...
CAUTION: FONDLING SACRED FIGURINES
I was flying through a huge space habitat with ten chambers and thousands of people unaware they were caged...
A Buddhist scroll shows me Hell Cafe, where diners become entrees. But I read the scroll backwards! You can escape Hell just by walking out, against the traffic flow...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL SOULS
Sargon, a delivery man, dreams the Goddess drowns the King in a river of blood. He wakes and tells the King...
I get stuck with a one-year mandatory gig as President of the World just as Saudi Arabia collapses, and fools rush in...
I happily meditated alone in a monastery. But when I woke, I couldn't see how to act on the dream. Then a friend visited...
A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body and energy are a patchwork of young and old...
Nebuchadnezzar dreams a voice from heaven commands a great tree be cut; Daniel predicts the king will go mad for 7 years...
I live in a colony of long-lived observers of humanity. But am I a human hireling--a short-lived pet--or one of them?
Gunmen held me hostage in a grand hall; at last they shot me. Next day came news of the Moscow Theater hostage crisis...
My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans...
As a boy in Australia I briefly died on the operating table. I found myself living among the Mimi, spirits living in rocks. I grew up, grew old, died--and woke up nine years old again...
Trapped in a blend of Joan of Arcadia and The Tempest Tales, I'm tired of being the pratfall sidekick...
My neurotic sister and I both lust for a girl named Sky; then I flee a gang of popes and lamas and mullahs...
I dreamed a sea eagle I saw as a boy led me back to my native Australia, to a Dreaming place. Later a 'spirit man' of the Mununajali in Queensland led me to the exact place I'd seen in my dream...
I'm a girl in rural Victorian England working as the county's magical protector. I have my hands full: a gang of ne'er-do-wells led by Ann So-And-So has found refuge in an invisibility tree! Showdown at the oak...
The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices...
Around royalty, protocol gets complex. I love the Dog King; despite her title she's female. Does that make her a...
or new comics version, 770K; 1995/10/12, a comic dream with a serious warning.
I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES
Tour a rugged, spectacular moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE
Distilling a dream to one key image can clarify it. But don't be ruled totally by traditional haiku form...
The hero Gilgamesh troubles his city til he has a dream predicting the gods will send him a best friend and lover, Enkidu...
CAUTION: SEX
I'm on a beach in Mexico with a baby--my only souvenir of an affair I can't recall. I'm a mom? My whole life will change! Wait. Is this real, or...
I find myself outdoors with my legs spread for a weird creature. I protest, but I love it. Later, after I wake...
CAUTION: SEX
In the cathedral, before the nation, I solemnly crown someone with my own detached head...
The day after my mom outed me to my dad, I dream a great storm has passed through and everything's just glowing...
A night-fiend strove to open the door I held shut between us--until I realized I too was terrible, and opened it to find a great...
CAUTION: THE DREADED PROSE OF HENRY JAMES
An Oxford teaching assistant at sexually blackmails one of his law students, but to his shock she goes public...
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...
After a day of nonstop art, I'm in rural China. Two women tell me their village declared them dead, killed by demons...
I find myself sketching the slope of progress up to the coming singularity, and suddenly seeing a hidden stability...
I live in a universe running on Bollywood rules. I can stand the constant singing and breakdancing; what gets under my skin is that Bollywood Code...
Fresh off the Beagle, Darwin and friends meet three wolf-girls on a train and exhibit a Pavlovian (or Biblical) reflex...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM, PUNS
I meet a female Bigfoot, who, to my surprise, quietly speaks my tongue. She's mourning the death of her infant son...
Alternating stanzas by very different poets, based on Roswila's dream of bellydancing in the streets...
Dream poems laid out like a calendar. Themes? Horses, camels, abused girls, vampires--all want their freedom...
Dream haiku laid out like a calendar. Roswila's favorite is the pirate, but mine is the were-salamander...
I just watch as all the dance students practice the jive step. I think I already know that one...
I defeat the knife-wielder, in spite the blade in my belly I can't pull out. I may have to let it be...
A dream haiku telling of a dog-pack saved by the intuition of a mutt with a mangled ear...
Skimming over the lake on surface tension as two sharks prowl beneath, I'm not sure who's fishing for whom...
A watershed dream for me, since my relationship with my father was, shall I say, conflicted...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
My dreams support a radical break from my past--to let go of possessions and friends in a cross-country move...
A kinky seduction slips into something more uncomfortable: the Qabbalah? Or possibly leather...
CAUTION: EROTICA OR ESOTERICA?
A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream...
The first two dragons numb my pain. I demand it back, and soon regret my haste. But the third dragon I seduce, for I'm a dragon now...
Ted died of CO2 poisoning in Hong Kong. His mom dreamed he came to tell her it was painless. To prove he was real, he told her...
After Myrna's husband gave up diabetes treatments to die at home, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered...
At the exact minute Joey's infant daughter Jesse died, her father-in-law woke up 500 miles away and announced, "The baby..."
Is that a madwoman riding a horse, or a cougar pouncing on a deer, or are these dream-creatures wildly making love?
The dancers, in a frenzy, stripped themselves. Not just their clothes; themselves...
"Freedom is a gift you give yourself." But it doesn't always involve seahorses or babycarriages covered in quills...
A jungle cat needs to take time out from a hard day's predation to have a quiet smoke...
"Our resurrection is not entirely in the future; it's also in us, it begins, it's already begun..."
One pays for soaring high with solitude of the soul...
The dreamer overflows from her egg, spills out to become a waterfall, a stampede of horses...
The dreamer becomes a horse, the horse becomes a unicorn. Dreams have their own quests apart from the conscious...
"If you put an ear to the door of books and the doors of the night, if you pay attention, you can hear the conversation of poets..."
Girondé dreams she's floating through the oceanic abyss...
Three unicorns gallop out of the waves...
Those Hollywood lovers in the tub seem perfect together, until... oh, read the title!
CAUTION: RACE- AND GENDER-BENDING
You'd think his Christmas wish would be "a new eye"; well it was, in a way...
At a party in Animal Heaven, I fall for a rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner. How can I rescue her? I'm Fate's part-time intern!
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, INCOMPETENT ANGEL OF DEATH
A mare's brought in to save a rare bloodline. She's young but as extraordinary as her mate: part filly, part feline...
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!
Nightwalkers lured our empath away. We come to their castle to rescue her. Pregnant with magic, will she come or stay?
My horse and I dove into a lagoon and sought buried treasure on the sea-floor. What are we really after?
Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists and then an impossible fruit...
CAUTION: NUDE SCIENTISTS
Tarot cards fuse and meanings layer, to warn me I've similarly (con)fused real and trance-induced memories during therapy...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
My friend stuffs a broken feeder with birdseed. I worry it'll attract too many wild birds. He laughs "Exactly!"...
I meet an weird new species of giraffe people with hydraulic chrome skeletons giving them light, powerful jaws and stretchable necks. Wow, Lamarck is back!...
CAUTION: ANTICREATIONISM--THAT IS, ACTUAL SCIENCE