A whole convention of adults abused as kids shows me how hard it is to hide the damage...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
A nondream vision of an alternate Earth where continents are abysses, abysses continents...
In spring the young allergic longs for the lusty world but cannot join the All-Orgy...
When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the dimwits...
What makes so much animation all feel the same? Temptations inherent in the medium...
I dream of Beren and Luthien happy and mortal in their forest, and wake to find...
Jaundiced dreams of an art show spell out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art...
JFK and Marilyn as our gender archetypes point out the real gender gap: lifespan, not votes!
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, BUT I GUESS IT'S TOO LATE NOW
Beagle's fantasies, from The Last Unicorn to The Innkeeper's Song, closely resemble
my dreams. The ways we differ say more about our spiritual orientation than about our art...
I heard a noise out my window. I looked out, and saw something strange...
My take on IQ, racism, Murray and Herrnstein's notorious book, and the theory of multiple intelligence.
As an (ex)child prodigy it's not theoretical for me: broken hearts, broken trust, broken ribs...
CAUTION: LONG WORDS, RAMPANT ELITISM, GENIUS SHOPTALK
A human pinball game played in the dark, with bells for stoppers, sorting people into a Gaussian bell-curve...
Anti-ideological rant calling experience water and belief... ice.
A publishing-house error made them reject Tolkien's mythical work, and demand a sequel to The Hobbit...
A capsule history of a taboo that changed startlingly over 3000 years... does sin depend on timing?
CAUTION: SEX TALK, TABOOS
Tour bizarre worlds most exobiologists would dismiss as hopeless for life--and meet the natives...
CAUTION: SEXY ALIENS, WEIRD CUSTOMS, EVOLUTION
A startling deep-blue rabbit with scarlet eyes and red veined ears, floating in colorless air...
I'd been reading Watership Down, the chapter on the Black Rabbit of Inlé...
CAUTION: ART THEORY CRUSHES BUNNY
Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode?
When girls get their clits cut, even the UN takes notice. But mutilate boy genitals, and... big yawn!
CAUTION: TALK ABOUT SEX AND VIOLENCE--BUT HEY, IT'S ONLY BOYS
Bradbury's Mars was based on his life in Venice, California. What worlds grow out of my San Francisco?
A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness...
CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
Can our interspecies family survive? Our very instincts clash around solitude/boundaries, sex and incest
CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, REPRESSION/DENIAL
That moment when you tire of your old trauma and suddenly turn to the sun. Or fun.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
We don't face Huntington's Clash of Civilizations. This is a world war--inland reactionaries attack tolerant coasts.
CAUTION: POLITICAL IDEAS, POLITICAL RAGE
Mark Clifton wrote science fiction tales of mutant psychic geniuses--only he wrote from life...
I'm in the Mideast. No wonder it's a war zone--it's a vast pit BUILT for war!
But a spiral stair leads slowly out, to...
A spiral dream-instrument I'm building, that's easier to play than a piano or guitar, and a lot snakier...
Suddenly I see the notion of "cool" as just another Euro theft. Being cool shouts "I'm insecure"...
Coyote invades an abstract painting to expose why the art world loves that high-concept, impersonal art...
Coyote's pagan parody of the Christian Lord's prayer. Well, actually, it's kind of sweet..
CAUTION: SACRILEGE, ESPECIALLY THE BIT ABOUT TEMPTATION
Cartoonist Robert Crumb just turns off all taboos while drawing. A learnable technique...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, CARTOON SEX
Normal people want someone complementary. Weirdos want someone like them. Why? Economics!...
Evangelists pester me until I get so mad I make an on-the-spot deal with...
CAUTION: MAD AT CHRISTIANS AGAIN
A catalog of American addictions and the absurd distinctions we make between them....
CAUTION: EMBARRASSING DRUG LIST
I'm actress Nicole Kidman, clinging to the dome of City Hall like King Kong, ripping it to shreds! Why?
CAUTION: VANDALISM, REVERSE SEXISM, EXHIBITIONISM
Distilling a dream to one key image can clarify it. But don't be ruled totally by traditional haiku form...
A novel on a modern woman called to become a shaman
echoes my real life way too closely for comfort...
Sprague De Camp says religions seduce us with emotional comfort. But is dreamwork religion or science?
Artists have their own strange culture, and we can unintentionally mislead therapists unfamiliar with us...
CAUTION: THERAPESE
What Earth will look like 1000 years from now, with doubled CO2, flooded coasts and melted poles...
CAUTION: CALLS GEORGE W. BUSH A BIG FAT LIAR
Mute, paired images, contrasting life with the death we're spreading. And then finally the dream speaks:
CAUTION: READ THE TITLE AND GO SABOTAGE SOMETHING!
What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts
and feelings invade you? When other's bodies invade you, it's molestation...
Money, power, race and gender stifle my working friends less than hierarchical structures...
Evolution is like baseball--a game of inches, efficiency, constraints. Surely we can do better....
CAUTION: CONTAINS THOUGHT
We see patterns everywhere... but that also means we relegate nonpatterns to the background...
A book's example of a mathematical savant made me stop and try to do what he did. I can! Can anyone?
I have weird, bad luck around dating. Finally I go on a picnic with Page, and the Great Fire begins...
In the richest regions of the sea, dead stuff wells up to meet the light. Do we have similar zones?
After a trip to a failing mall, an old Grateful Dead song haunts my dreams. Mall, song; opposite political poles...
CAUTION: HIPPIE/JEFFERSONIAN DEISM
My take on what Georgia O'Keeffe claimed she was up to with those giant flowers...
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and
secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
A mural on how I became a dancer--the day I lost my old
body-image, failed to recognize myself in the mirror...
For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted...
In older studies at least, women dream of both sexes but men dream largely of men. Just like TV, huh?
CAUTION: YOU'LL NEVER WATCH TV AGAIN
The two commonest sexual orientations have no names, or even concepts! Yet they're obvious, once...
CAUTION: THE TRUTH THAT DARE NOT BE TOLD
Advice of a specialist on the care and feeding of child prodigies, embarrassingly relevant for adult geniuses...
So I looked out my window and saw this guy burying a tiny robed woman in a trench in the street...
I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy...
James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm!
An early self-portrait rebelling against my gender and trying on beauty to see what'd change...
When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES
Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming...
Deep Duck's interview with Jasha the Krelkin goes rogue, as she urges tossing out human habits like... death?
CAUTION: REDWOOD-SPRITE SEX, PEEING ON TREES, DRUNK DUCK
Montgomery's film about her teenage affair with a pedophile
is troubling enough before the FBI tries to blackmail her...
CAUTION: MOLESTATION/ABUSE ISSUES
I had a headache and couldn't sleep. I started drawing, and asked for a cure. And a cartoon angel said...
CAUTION: TANTRUMS, MASTURBATION, JUNKFOOD, ANGELIC SCOLDING
Writer Joan Grant, who was a psychic and trance channeler, got a sort of reading herself, from H.G. Wells...
Jung's dreams and interpretations show he's a thing-guy not a people-guy. All that architecture!...
At least fantasy and science fiction address my life-issues; "realism" just declares me nonexistent...
Klimt did a deep portrait of a lesbian couple back when most folks hardly saw gays as human...
A spiral dream-instrument I'm building, that's easier to play than a piano or guitar, and a lot snakier...
Illness is such a handy excuse when you need solitude, care, rest, or just time to think... but...
Engineers! How they do love to impose clean lines on our messy world...
The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich what they really want: ranking and attention...
CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS
Recycling used paint to lighten pavements could lower continental temperatures a fraction of a degree...
A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly & deniably as me and my sisters...
CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species...
CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
Phyllis Schlafly, killer of 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!
Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies...
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER
The image got lost, but the words survived, so here's the poetic saga of an ant that left th' farm...
Mars as it will be 1000 years from now, terraformed. A guided tour with photos...
As a kid I was haunted by the parallels between Menolly of Pern and me...
A mad experiment one night in Micrography, with a midnight rant for scripture and my girlfriend for God...
CAUTION: BLASPHEMY OF SOME KIND OR OTHER
Unfortunately, this is not a dream at all...
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 dream I'm ranting about the structure of the mind, postulating four layers--odd, since
I think dreams are meaningless--just neurons getting some exercise! So whence this theory?
CAUTION: JARGON
I have all the signs of multiple personality but memory gaps. Here are the ones I've met and been in dreams.
But you all forget your dreams. Don't be too sure you're so unitary...
CAUTION: BACKGROUND SEX
Sally Morgan, in her famous autobiography, details racism and family silence, but also her
family's matter-of-fact acceptance of premonitions and dreams. I feel acceptance envy!
ESP is like having neutrino detectors for eyes: what radiates from people's cores blinds you to their surfaces...
A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras...
CAUTION: IDEAS
My first memory is of being a wild horse, and waking up to find I was now a human child.
Franz Marc's "Blue Rider" paintings felt like my dreams; but as I learned of his life...
No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...
Inspired by Shaun Tan, I fill a black-paged photo album with 36 improv paintings.
They become a tour of my dreamworld, led by my anima Silky, a literal nightmare...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, WEIRD DREAM IDEAS
A model of a moon, half-Europa, half-Mars, with (intelligent?) life in seas under a skin of ice...
Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message...
When I was battered, I briefly lived on the streets. What struck me was how fragile most of us were...
CAUTION: BRIEF BUT GRIM
A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one!
Hypnotized in therapy, I saw AT LEAST five competing goals tugging at me like gravity fields.
Naturally I drew them. Come tour the Inner Solar System of our desires...
CAUTION: NUDITY (BODY, HEART, BRAIN, SOUL)
I put a singles ad in our paper, but I just couldn't say what I really wanted to. Now, I can...
CAUTION: SEX, DRUGS, AND DOGGEREL
Thomas Piketty argues we obsess on income, ignore capital. My experience suggests he's right. Track wealth, tax wealth...
CAUTION: NON-DREAM RANT, ECONOMICS, HOW TO GET RICH SLOW
19 nondream imaginary worlds rendered in text, art, & sculpture. Most teem with intelligent life--alien Edens!
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, MATH, SOCIALISM, EVOLUTION
I suspect we child prodigies and geniuses are as unlike the gifted as normal people. So here's a checklist...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
Child prodigies may develop allergies due to immunosystem damage from too much testosterone in utero...
News of a child prodigy who was given the support I wasn't, triggers a flood of envy and bitterness...
My sister's avoiding our nosy parents, but I sense they'll run into her soon. I just didn't know HOW soon...
The rest of us heavenly bodies have each other, but from the Sun's viewpoint, we're just rubble. Alone...
Why wait for the Rapture when you can use a chinup machine and raise yourself off that cross?...
CAUTION: NUDE PSEUDO-CRUCIFIXION, SACRILEGIOUS SELF-HELP
How do we make dream narratives readable, when so many
readers are brainwashed to think they're nonsense?
These days I'm doubtful about both an afterlife AND utter extinction.
Was Shakespeare wrong about what gets buried, what lives on?
Biking, I find myself chanting a dinosaur name--Rhamphorhynchus. I don't even know what kind it is.
At home I open a novel, and a Rhamphorhynchus appears, politely defined for me by our obliging universe...
CAUTION: E.S.P.?
My sister and I played games based on the Rhine Institute's ESP studies. Our scores were not random...
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
Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember...
CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS
DAY: on the radio Carl Sagan calls those who've experienced ESP or UFOs "proto-fascists"...
DREAM: a flying pewter teapot orbits a round blue vase--like a starship round the Earth...
NEXT WEEK: My mom calls. She's selling that pewter pot after a century in the family...
CAUTION: DISSES SAGAN
A hard-hitting rap on Satan's dumbest disguise. Yet he's gotten away with it! The shocking truth...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE! SACRILEGE! MUCILAGE! (FOR THE BIG WHITE BEARD)
A book about the psychology of creatures with different sensory arrays
persuades me that all of us creatures build models of one shared world,
for understanding your neighbors vastly ups your odds of survival...
Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar...
A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species
and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia,
"The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation...
CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in
stroboscopic photos. Like weird undersea growths...
WARNING: NUDE CAT PEOPLE
My dreams are made of lovely carvable jade. Too bad my tools and skills suit our plastic age...
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
After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness...
First, suck up 90% of Earth's seas. Now wait 90,000 years for life to adapt. The continents are now
Tibetan plateaus above steamy new Deeps, ruled by giant parrots, ravens and otters...
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful...
I dream I'm suicidal; but I'm saved when I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern,
from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but the challenges slowly get more spiritual.
NEXT DAY: I learn what my shaman-friend Dee just dreamed. And now I'm unsure whose dream this is...
CAUTION: IDEAS
As I reread decades of dreams, I see Jung was right: even in crisis-times, soul-work goes calmly on...
A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines...
A street poet preaches a gospel of smallness, until he pokes at capitalism in a slightly too personal way...
I froze in dance class when I followed anyone else's script. Was it fear? A dragon inside said no...
I squabble with my body so much! But now & then, in orgasm, we dissolve into stars and become...
CAUTION: SEX POETRY
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY...
CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE
My unconscious sabotages a lunch date with my friend Stephanie. The tricks get weirder, till...
DREAM: I was a cheetah seeking a book of cheetah rolemodels, but this specist librarian harassed me...
PAINTING: months later, dream forgotten, I painted myself as an intellectual cheetah stretching...
A picture-poem experiment: one dream per stanza!
Five short dreams exploring the weight of culture on our animal selves...
The tale of the most truly sincerely religious revelation I've ever witnessed...
CAUTION: REAL WITCHES
I like bad taste. Taste always tasted like another Anglo conspiracy to keep me from having fun...
I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS
A weird identity-confusion at a dance hints I'm simultaneously psychic, autistic, and... really stupid.
After reading 170 capsule biographies of famous people I conclude life-plans are
a joke. But I do deduce ten negative rules--ten universal don'ts--that may be of use...
CAUTION: CYNICAL, BUT 170 OBITUARIES WILL DO THAT
What the world looks like when you have environmental illness, like me...
I drilled new poles in my globe and tilted the Earth. Ice Age or Carboniferous? Flood or drought?
Come visit tropical Antarctica, the Thai Desert, the Hawaiian glaciers, the jungles of France!
In an oneirophobic society, it's easy to forget that when you do dreamwork, you're doing basic science.
No funding, no team, no lab coat? Can't be science! Unless they mistaught us what science is...
Yesterday, Hitler marched into town. I was born before the Industrial Revolution, and am now about 200 years old...
Okay, say evolution is driven by things (I don't care what) besides natural selection. How could you tell?
Ballerina Joan Brady quit, but ten years later, returned. Her body rejuvenated! So what can MINE do?
An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence...
CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART
All I know about humans, I learned in psychodrama. I gawked as caterpillars grew wings. Except me...
Tour Venus as it will be in 1000 years, after terraforming: paradise for dozens of intelligent species!
Kingsford meets a girl who burns herself as a protest. K flips out! Rants instead of helps...
CAUTION: RANT MIDWAY YOU'RE BETTER OFF SKIPPING
Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
My life was a sex disaster. I felt ugly and sick. Then I dreamed I found a counselor
who really helped. But my parents warned me against her. Why? They explained:
WARNING: NUDITY
Dodging between all your -isms, I feel like a bird on a battlefield...
A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
The size of ancient flying creatures implies that Earth may lose more atmosphere over time than we think...
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow
deep social change is. How we cling to the old horrors!
A witch in the future invents a new way to terraform small dense moons--and it'd work!...
Is there really that much difference between the rootless yuppies flooding the West, and war refugees?
Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME
Nancy Friday describes a kind of weak guy disturbingly like me--I think chronic illness has...
An alternate Titan, Titan as it should have been, with ethane seas full of life...
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it?
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."