I fall in love, defying dwarf-tossers and Toulouse-Lautrec, till I become a time-traveling bunny...
CAUTION: SEX, SIZE DISCRIMINATION AND SLANDER
I live in a colony of long-lived observers of humanity. But am I one? Or a short-lived human pet?
I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
I dreamt my friend Anne Sexton's death was on the news.
I woke, the phone rang, and I learned she'd...
CAUTION: SUICIDE
The garden varies, but I have always turned away and walked into the whole world. So far...
Fifty years after I drove him away with high-school idiocy, I get one last kiss before...
Jung's ally in killing the murderous German archetype Siegfried was Atmavictu.
Here he's worn out, turning to stone, ready to manifest as a different guide...
four death-omen dreamlets, one predictive
Every decade or so, I dream a loved one says farewell and walks
down an avenue of trees. I wake to find that person's dying...
I love a girl in a big Singapore clan whose matriarch hates me.
But the omens say confronting her will be disastrous...
A beetle helps me on a fairytale quest, then founds a great house;
but only a year later, he's an ancient patriarch, and I'm still young...
I was moved that Betty came to see my two babies despite her illness, but shocked when her father told me...
While we’re at work, Blind Ancestors come smash up our homes...
and we all see zombie vandal relatives as normal...
In a world where respectable men wear masks, an old, old man rebels in the crudest way he can...
I dreamt Bob was a tree-god enthroned in ivy. I said...
I found a honeymoon cottage by the sea, and the old landlady gave me a very reasonable rate. Everything was fine...
I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape...
J.H. dreamt both his mother and Queen Mary appeared in mourning. Within days, both were dying...
I was trapped inside a boulder, but as I chanted it melted around me until it resembled a discarded skin...
A sequence of short dreams full of creatures. They warn I'll face leukemia...
The moon invites me to go flying, but I get tired of magic and just want to go shopping...
Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth...
I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house...
He saw a vehicle coming toward him at great speed. The light was so bright it blinded him. He screamed...
An epic dream on the lifelong effects of unrequited love, compressed into seven stanzas...
I had a heart attack--but it faded in minutes! The phone rang. I knew at once my dying mother was gone...
I touch the secret soul of a cancer survivor, upsetting her. To apologize, I become a goofy hopping god...
CAUTION: FONDLING SACRED FIGURINES
My town transforms into a circus--trapeze artists, elephants, clowns. At first I loved it, but when I went home...
Calvin Coolidge takes over the White House and invites
his rich fossil friends over for a bath and a song...
Crazy Jane watches a dancing couple's passionate games, and envies even their hate; to her, it's part of love...
I dream up a shining mall. At a booth selling herbs I meet my mentors, Crone and Sage.
They tease me for building a venue so banal. But I tease right back: "This place shapes you..."
CAUTION: CRITIQUES BUDDHIST PURITY
That broccoli business made the new pope controversial, but when he goes off to find his girlfriend...
CAUTION: CATHOLIC SACRILEGE I'M SURE
My father is supposed to speak, but he falls asleep onstage. I rush up to try and rouse him, but...
After my mom's death, my dad starts dating again, while I hide out and wince. Can't I do anything positive?
I cross a hostile continent to a magic commune, fall in love with a flying girl who slaps a
soul-spark into my head, and follow an alien goddess leading the Dance of the Sun...
Mrs Brown was dead; I recalled helping at her bedside. My mother swore she was alive and I'd never met her! Then...
I dream I have just six months to live. I go through a dozen phases and moods, preparing for death...
I reached back slowly hoping to touch your long amber fur wondering if you might be a dream...
The Duke complains things just aren't what they were. As I hear what he liked, I'm increasingly...
Granny's magic nipple helps me foil the yuppies dumping toxic
waste. But does it count if I did it just to save my own...
CAUTION: CRUDE TALK; STETHESCOPIC NIPPLE
An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help?
I meet a man who's lived centuries on an all-cannibal diet. He has ethics, though: he sticks to roadkill! Except...
CAUTION: EEEUUGH!
I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages.
But then I must fly over a sinister parade...
A staring Eye tries to break me; his cats & robots flay me. Yet his birds rebel in sympathy, & I refuse to die...
Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened...
I fondle the noses of two masked girls in red leotards--parodying part of a Clockwork Orange...
I'm excited to see Last Year at Marienbad, but either the actors mumble or the sound is bad...
Night. I fly, as in Fellini's 8½, but out of control. The wind takes me, I'm terrified...
My grandmother attacks me with her crab-claw, then retreats, chanting the film title Shoeshine!
I'm a film actress, but the producer isn't happy with my legs, so make-up takes them away to be redone...
Finally I've turned into an old whore... a silly Jack Kerouac whore with that same old tired old gasafaycagoo...
I'm one of four mediocrities: all our efforts come to nought. Mum says "You're netted, but you can fray the ropes...
A famous inventor is descended from foxes. Their faces teach me something about beauty and character...
"Oh no" she moaned. "I don't want Frankie to go to that camp. He must not go there." She began to cry...
Freud and I argue dream-theory while we're stuck in an elevator that projects dream-examples on the walls...
After reading a fable about a murdered werewolf, I dream a tough old woman
with golden wolf eyes joins our school lunch table, where the furry minority sits...
CAUTION: CRITIQUES SUSAN PALWICK
Gandhi and I must run barefoot across a burning racetrack miles wide... the Ascetic Desert?
In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For gods aren't the gardeners, they're the crop...
Viga-Glum dreamt a giantess came to visit. "She is the spirit-guide of my grandfather in Norway. He is dead...
The girl I love has a family that'll stop at absolutely nothing to destroy us. But I'll fight for love...
CAUTION: SEX; EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE; MOLESTATION HISTORY
In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear...
My grandma couldn't drive, but after she died, I dreamt she drove my brother Bill and me
around--speeding, in fact. When I told him the dream, he filled in details--he'd dreamt it too!
In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come...
A dying colleague haunts me all night. He says "crossings are often unpleasant" but death's not bad...
As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house...
CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY
I oversleep. A lot. All my friends are dead, along with my century...
I find myself at a creepy party supporting a dead man who's running for office. And am I Dan Quayle?
CAUTION: HORROR BEYOND HORROR. YOU ARE DAN QUAYLE.
Soon after my friend and mentor James Merrill died, I had recurring, elusive dreams about him...
The true story of the very first tree-hugger. Not Kerouac! You'll never guess. In fact, you'll say it's impossible...
I wake to find I'm a museum exhibit 15,000 years from now--a primitive man...
I know we will cross the water surrounding the heart of Jerusalem, but not yet...
From the neck up I was me; from the neck down, Woodrow Wilson in his old age, paralyzed.
My presidential aides divided up my duties, and ignored me...
I found myself in a cage, with only a bench and piles of old books. A mirror showed
I was old and twisted with speckled skin. In horror I said "I must get away"...
I was trapped in a river, trying to swim to shore. But I was in a powerful eddy. No matter which way I swam...
As a boy I dreamt I was trapped in a wooden chair, paralyzed, as a stampede
rushed toward me, just as my grandmother was paralyzed and chair-bound...
Alli/Tip is lured/tricked into a pen full of women, and tries to get out by repeating this ambiguous plea...
George sees a cart-crash pinning a friend. He yells to bystanders to free the wheel, but they can't hear him...
Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL?
I'm in a loving animal dance troupe, but wake to find I'm alone.
For consolation, I eat at The Terrace, and meet stars. Not film stars...
An older woman I know nags me about food. Suddenly my mind flips our genders and weights...
I'm Mattie, a pregnant girl on a Lewis and Clark expedition. I miscarry, and they tell me...
I'm back in the suburbs, but decades have passed. My mom's really old & blind.
Yet I insist she should drive the car, not me. She pulls out in front of a huge truck...
The foul old fossil woman had carved and burnt her own flesh in the name of art;
we washed her till she was reborn young. It was my turn next to enter the water...
ALYSE dreams Tim drives a motorcycle-book up a hill, but she doesn't LIKE riding so fast...
TIM dreams a wise woman tested him, but found him unqualified to play teacher to Alyse...
My dreams support a radical break from my past--to let go of possessions and friends in a cross-country move...
A horror film and Rick Veitch's dream-comix provoke a nightmare
warning me that guilt about my dad is wrecking my life...
I'm a Romantic poet who defeats the curse of the fountain, to marry; but when our daughter's grown,
a new curse strikes me mute, paralyzed. And I mistake this for old age!
Then, in real life, my dad wakes up from a nap paralyzed...
a dream-poem provoking a 2008/9/16 dream by Chris Wayan
I was in my mother's closet, trying on her outfits, and trapped in Hamlet, too...
After Myrna's husband gave up diabetes treatments to die at home, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered...
I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in...
CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
I meet the original Adam. He complains Eve neglects him, but he hopes to meet one of his cleverer descendants...
A Hollywood sex goddess confronts the Ingenue who's supplanting her. Just how far will she go?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
Malaria nearly kills a talented young artist; he must retrain from scratch. Why? Well, he's not exactly himself...
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
On terraformed Mars, we set out to climb Mt Olympus without
oxygen masks. The first miles are OK, but the air thins until...
CAUTION: ANTICIPATED DEATH?
A writer I haven't seen for 40 years gives me a drink, but all I want is to find my mom in The Other Room...
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...
A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it's time to pass the gift on...
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
Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea...
I worked at Stanford too long. I got tired of observing the mating displays of the purple-prose patriarch..
CAUTION: NUDE ACADEMIC GROUPIE
I walk on Martinique with Captain Picard of the starship Enterprise. He's here to see a dreamy boy...
As a boy on Martinique, Jean-Luc Picard wished for so much so hard, his angels have to work overtime...
A pigeon with a head like Queen Victoria's keeps fastening onto
my clothing with its beak, and this nagging feels familiar...
I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself...
A disintegrating board game reminds me to take time to enjoy things beyond work and activism...
CAUTION: NUDITY, TRANSGENDER, ASTROLOGY
Among the family portraits in the hall of my ancestors was this one of a formidable old... woman, I guess.
a dream of flying, shapeshifting and spiritual advice.
When a flood traps me in my cabin, I dream I meet
an old man who warns me "Let your butterflies go"...
A monster's out to eat my dog--and maybe me. We get cornered in the barn...
20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems...
CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
A movie version of heaven. Souls line up for rejuvenation from a great
fountain. But fat old rich guys crash the line, demanding to be first...
CAUTION: UGLY NUDITY, UGLY BEHAVIOR, POLITICALLY PREDICTIVE
They were both beauties and look rather feline to me--I'm drawn to feline beauties still, and wonder...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism,
blind to kindness--or is he just reporting Big Sur's true, mean spirit(s)?
CAUTION: LITERARY AND MYSTICAL
In the woods I catch a beautiful rooster. It doesn't struggle; it turns into a dog.
We make friends. We sleep together in the wood; I dream we grow old together.
The dog's owner wakes me; farewell, dog! But at least the funeral has caviar...
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change...
CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
For years the Sea-Wolf enslaved me. He said I had to fight him and win to be free. I'm ready at last...
A puzzle-game of eyes and mirrors and shadows starts revealing the players' deepest secrets...
A great teacher abruptly blanks out. Memory loss is scary, but the empty moment bared a deeper fear:
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
Day: Robert Bly's book Iron John, claiming men need male mentors, annoys me.
Dream: the giants co-opted Captain Picard of Star Trek, but we don't need him to rebel...
CAUTION: MOCKS ROBERT BLY
My neurotic sister and I both lust for a girl named Sky; then I flee a gang of popes and lamas and mullahs...
The future. Humanity's trapped--no energy. Because aliens looted our world before we evolved! Now...
Lost in the rainforest of Olympic National Park, I stumble into the wrong cabin:
the hut of Time herself. Or is she? She asks me to clean up, but spare her web...
As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests
given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go!
As the steamroller flattened me I became quite a lovely stained-glass window...
The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices...
Through twin gates of dream--not ivory and horn any more, but fear and trust...
Three castles on the sea: a Mock Kremlin, a Ship of Toiletpaper, and a Ship of Brick and Beer...
A mad old surfer of the San Andreas Fault, impossibly riding earth-change...
Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me...
(A comic frustration dream hiding a warning)
Our tennis game's spoiled by rubber rackets, fierce grandmas,
Good and Evil (those identical twins) and a bully on stilts...
I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, LESBIAN MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
Psychics give me an incomprehensible reading. A book from the tree-library gives only Victorian dating advice.
At last a madman gives me a treasure-box holding a tooth that unfolds into slices carved in unreadable symbols...
Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died,
but he still wants to teach me his medicine...
I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones...
CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM
Yesterday, Hitler marched into town. I was born before the Industrial Revolution, and am now about 200 years old...
Two witches, maiden and crone, ride a flying monster made of two magically fused trolls.
But I know somehow that the two are really just aspects of a single powerful sorceress...
My uncle Mac has a secret scheme to free us all from the Rat Race, but
his dancing mouse-headed robots (and climate change) get out of hand...
A friend buys a frozen used Pope, to navigate her starship with Papal infallibility. Call me a Luddite, but..
CAUTION: SACRILEGIOUS PUN
My friend Verity's given a beautiful set of wings. I'm envious until I consider what angel wings imply...
My father-in-law looked me in the eye and said, 'Florence, the Lord is my shepherd and we go in peace'...
Lost in an industrial maze, my memories hopelessly outdated, I resign myself to the Wheel...
I'm in a ring of seven white-haired women, our arms all interlocking.
When I woke I had fun working out the pattern of those interlinked arms...
A huge wolfhound tore past me. My blood froze. The Wild Hunt was carrying off a soul...
At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me
why she did it--and why she regrets it now...
The same night I learn of the Kerouac Tree, a wise old man shows me the world's fair. Not the event...
I was in a small room with a single bare lightbulb and an old man at a desk writing. The phone rang.
He answered--said, 'Yes, Emma, one pound onions, a dozen oranges." Two days later...
The house I'm looking at has unexpected rooms, even a pool, but another buyer beats me out.
An old woman says "Don't worry dear, in time you lose everything." A comfort at first, but then...
In a busy, shorthanded market, the store owner's running a checkstand.
He mistakes me for an employee and starts ordering me around...
CAUTION: AGE & GENDER... BIAS? OR INFORMED JUDGMENT?
A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier?