Adrian and Jennifer and Michelle try very very hard to get my attention, but I'm a bit oblivious...
CAUTION: SEXUAL STUPIDITY
Never mind an afterlife! What if, before life, we were spirits with no idea what happens after birth?...
Weird paintings cover a hill town in Africa, demanding I paint them when I wake.
Paintings on courage, flight... and defying tradition.
I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept...
A horde of wild women camp in my yard and practice leaping
through invisible spacetime portals. They invite me along...
CAUTION: FEATHERED, PAINTED NUDITY
I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge.
I was a pregnant dancer on the Fertility Goddess's new TV show, but I was mad at her...
I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory...
Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But
a cat-centaur in the crowd attains sudden enlightenment...
I erase my sexual tape, and start over. Am I male, female, gay, straight? Uh-oh! What SPECIES?
CAUTION: MESSY SEXUAL BOOBOOS
On a bar bet, we seek God. We reach the Isles of the Blessed, but they're complacent. We want the wild
God, the real God, the Bad Taste God. Onward, pagan questers! Because we want to win our bet.
CAUTION: LAZY-ASS ANGELS
Since I'm half-unicorn, my ambition drives me to share power and help the whole
herd--that's how unicorns rise. But among human politicians...
A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied...
A human pinball game played in the dark, with bells for stoppers, sorting people into a Gaussian bell-curve...
Why's Jade the bitter artist throw me at her happier, calmer daughter? Wait, is Jamie the new ME?
CAUTION: SEX
A dream-voyage round the world on the Black Current, only to wake up back in my animal village...
CAUTION: GORILLA MARRIAGE
I seek a stolen magic necklace, but end up dating the thief, an elf-queen with STRANGE taste in cookery...
CAUTION: BAD SOUP
Soul-Poodle is torn between Le Bone Dieu and Dancing Pussy. Who will our horny dogma chase?
CAUTION: MUTT SMUT
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 where models learn self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by...
CAUTION: BARF, HORNY ANOREXIC, FOOD FIGHT
Ballooning over Middle Earth with a metamorphosing butterfly-girl, we drift into forbidden territory:
I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in
and carry on--clumsy and lonely. Then a divine herald arrives from the Isles: Donald Duck! He says...
What my home town will become, if you fools keep burning gas and spewing CO2...
Abducted as a kid by alien angels and raised in a luminous
cloud, I find it hard to keep a mortal, human perspective...
I always laughed at those silly superhero outfits. But when it's my turn to fly, I find out why...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
I'm trapped in an alien hotel, my true love has gone radioactive,
and the only way out is to turn into a giant, scary...
CAUTION: CLOSET LESBIAN. LITERAL CLOSET.
I knew my new girlfriend was the large economy size but I didn't realize she was a gas giant until...
CAUTION: FLATULENT PLANETARY NUDITY
That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one.
That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and...
One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in...
My friend Lisadia sneers at a dog-girl's attempts to beautify her starship. I'm shocked--she's openly specist...
CAUTION: SPECISM
A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world...
A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out.
Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle...
A painting's a window into another world--a window opening two ways.
People in paintings may be watching us...
An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help?
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
A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right?
Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot...
A doe I meet is as horny and shy as me. We're similar: torn between desire and fear...
Then I meet a slacker succubus. She may just let herself get seduced toward freedom...
CAUTION: SEX
A sophisticated composition for a sophisticated model. Or at least seasick...
CAUTION: NUDITY, NAUSEA...
I'm a cripple watching a sexy Greek Opera starring Whoopi Goldberg. Then I realize I'm in it...
I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight...
Sketches from a San Francisco street music festival where, after a long sleep, I woke up sexually at last...
CAUTION: NYMPHETS, QUEERS, AND OTHER REAL PEOPLE
On the Night Train out of my small-town life, I meet the town rebel. But she's misplaced her tongue...
CAUTION: PETTING; UNNERVING TONGUE
In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her...
CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly...
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
It's nice hearing everyone praise my sex crimes, but I need to pull the dog from the golden horn...
CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE (OBVIOUSLY), GENERAL WEIRDNESS
A man dies--his body's chopped up. He ends in Hell. But he's a stubborn guy; he wants his body back. So...
I meet the new improved giraffe people with hydraulic chrome skeletons--
such light, powerful jaws and stretchable necks. Wow, Lamarckianism is back!
CAUTION: ANTICREATIONISM--THAT IS, ACTUAL SCIENCE
I date a girl with a mysterious syndrome, but soon I become a monkeyfaced con-man. And SHE becomes...
An Oxford teaching assistant sexually blackmails one of his law students, but to his shock she goes public...
I'm in Venice. The police chief (armored) and Goldie Hawn (near-naked)
ride a skittish monster. Turns out bareback works better...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I tried a Redon theme: huge, floating eyes. His are scary, but mystical; mine came out as guilty terror...
I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion...
I can heal people with a touch. But they don't want to be merely restored, but resculpted...
CAUTION: TRANNIES AND FURRIES LEAVE THE CLOSET
Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled...
A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY
A telepathic unicorn-lion says my true name is Wayan. And my true species? I'm like him!
I wake, change my name to fit the dream, move to a new city. Near my new house,
my dream-name is scratched into the concrete sidewalk...
I meet a circle of students with up to five eyes. The lone three-eyed girl
is embarrassed, indeed ashamed she's merely attained enlightenment...
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
Playing Mario Kart, I stray into a darkness where Earth floats, burning.
And then Jesus speaks up! But I carelessly hit the OFF button...
I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point...
I'm the animal guardian of a deep crater, but when a human girl rejects me, I set out to leave...
CAUTION: ORAL SEX, UNREQUITED LOVE, SPECISM
Is that a madwoman riding a horse, or a cougar pouncing on a deer,
or are these dream-creatures wildly making love?
On Mars, a child-sacrificing cult of miners wants to kill me, but something strange happens....
Why is Captain Janeway doing the tango with another woman, in a creek, wearing a mermaid tail?
A sex dream warning "to find your soulmate, learn to spot the opposite: cute political and spiritual idiots..."
CAUTION: SEX AND POLITICS
I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
I'm a slender, clever krelkin. I draw me, but then red rage erupts and I trash myself... can I be saved?
I ask my dreams about sex, and get... sex on a beach with a sea-serpent girl--a lamia. But she gets queasy--
landsick! Too hot for her up here. Help her back in the sea. What a contrast with Ruskin's lamia nightmare...
CAUTION: SCALY SEX
I'm in an America where witches are burned & abused women grow on trees. Yet three of us heal...
CAUTION: CREEPY PARALLEL WORLD
I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost.
We need an Imperial Dragon...
I wake up as someone else. I go through her working day, till Captain Kirk comes to take me to...
She didn't want to be there. She closed her eyes and went elsewhere. So I painted where she went...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a 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
Day Me curls up and Night Me unfolds: a girl with dark moth-wings, not angel-white but camouflaged...
The Christian God vs Mahakala, Buddhist god of right anger! War in Middle Earth, as Pink Floyd sings...
Jung, in crisis, drew a complex mandala, and then wrote about its
symbols & archetypes, always claiming a patient had drawn it...
by Jenny Badger Sultan; Jan-Feb 2003, painting of a dream-series
My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares...
Our dream-group's dreams had a lot of imagery in common: circles, groups, meditation. I fused them into this piece...
An un-jealous wind lifts me above the San Francisco hills, so I can hunt for my love: the Muse...
Mercury didn't spin! One side fire, one side ice. We farmed in domes, between--until the sun brightened...
CAUTION: RETRO SCIENCE
I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect...
From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars,
Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction...
I made a cold moon of burnished metal, rusted and scraped. But then this warm mare reared...
I meet my own mistrust: an angel who can't trust ME! So she turns me into a football-playing ant...
Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own
evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE
At first no one seems interested in my mural-design for the inside of the City Hall dome, but...
The 'toon actors from My Little Pony gleefully volunteer to die horribly in a TV documentary on the
impact in Yucatan that killed off the... dinosaurs? No! Unicorns, griffins, pegasi and dragons! As I
draw the dream, I get an email from the maker of a TV documentary on climate catastrophe...
It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines...
Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus...
CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS
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
In a grassy depression, a small animal is thrashing. Death-throes? No. Calisthenics!
But not under the animal's control. Someone's testing...
A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment...
CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
I'm a stratospheric bat who finds a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism?
Or a Hindu blessing? Neither! It's an Octopian frisbee. I return it...
I forgot how to play my pianobed, so I just thrash around in it. And thus thrash music is born (sorry)...
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: PINK DILDO HATS
I'm authorized to play high-stakes poker with a scary-looking but rather nice demon...
What if comics panels and layouts weren't so square? I try triangles,
pentagons, hexagons, circles, spirals--and some serious stuff pops out...
CAUTION: IDEAS, OCCASIONAL NUDITY, MENTIONS ABUSE
I dream of a half-pony half-human girl who can't eat either hamburgers or hay. She figures out an appropriate diet...
At a museum, a weird art project shows me how observing and documenting life
in art can improve that life--just from being taken seriously...
We sail to the Isle of the Blest, but God exiles me to Fargo, North Dakota. But God's up to something subtle...
Day: Why did I get sick from figure-sketching? Guilt?
Dream: I'm at a group wedding; shall I wed a dwarf, a feral boy or a horse?
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
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love.
Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace?
CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back...
I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular...
In dreams, I kept meeting a dinosaurian person who was proud, strange, beautiful.
S/he introduced me to two sisters I just had to paint...
I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though
not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage...
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell
the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold...
CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
At a party, a sad girl attracts me. But to reach her, I must have an affair with a sexy, frustrated writer...
A life drawing I added a guy to, turning a piece about loneliness sex and socks into a wish fulfillment...
CAUTION: SEX, SOX (BUT UNLIKE BILL CLINTON, NO SAX)
Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with actress
Linda Evans, who is a sheep teaching ballet. When I wake...
I find a shy sphinx hiding in the corner of a painting in a dull art class. But maybe she's right to hide...
We play with worlds for balls, and gravity wells for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out.
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
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 crazy shiftiness...
CAUTION: NUDITY (SKIN, FUR and SCALE), SHIFTY PEOPLE (BI, WERE and QUEER)
A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now...
I find the sketch-journal of a beautiful winged sphinx who left her mythic isle
to explore a great city of crazy bipeds, called San Francisco...
CAUTION: SPHINX SEX, SPHINX ATTITUDE
After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx...
Leona's a fighter--she rejects compromisers like her husband,
her friends, that miniature catgirl she's been sitting on...
Laying my timeline in a Fibonacci spiral, it's clear great changes come in a pattern--
as soon as I've digested the last couple, a new revelation/revolution appears...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, HEAVY ISSUES
While I study how humans went extinct, my
daughter happily splashes in the sea...
I froze in dance class when I followed anyone else's script. Was it fear? A dragon inside said no...
DAY: I read Starhawk's Dreaming the Dark, on building unity, undoing capitalism;
DREAM: I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
I meet a flutist I like, but she's busy playing. So I conjure a second her with free time to listen to herself with me...
I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man named...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns.
I track down the wizard who cursed me. He turns me into a swan! Worse?
No! His first curse was on a human being, and now I'm a bird. My mind is free!...
Sylvia, the fabulous Dog Singer, leads me through a spy film, a French romantic farce, Fellini's Rome...
I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS
A friend says lucid dreaming doesn't matter--you can even fly awake if you clearly will it. So I jump...
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
The animal goddess of peace, stubbornly raising her sign, my sign, as you all slide into your nice holy war...
A 'toon liberation dream. I cartooned a new self and slowly she grew realer, until she ran Disney...
CAUTION: FRANK SINATRA SWEARS
My foot is a torso and my toes sprout conflicting personalities...
CAUTION: NUDE CARTOON
I wake up in a weird sexual situation. But I'm still dreaming--I wake again
to find I'm in an even weirder sexual situation. But I'm still...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, (ANTI?)ROMANTICISM
My uncle is Jupiter. Not the god, the planet. All my relatives are planets. So am I. And I'm invaded...
Masked champions of Good and Evil fight, peeling off layers till they're
elven-thin--what's left to hide? They can't keep stripping forever...
My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So
I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans...
Yellow fireflies circling round the horn of a reclining red unicorn, in the evening...
After over-editing a weird poem to Silky, my night mare, I dream that
well-meaning surgeons think a unicorn's a defective horse, and try to dehorn her...
A woman goes on a quest with an alien friend, and returns with only a furry musical vase:
her friend! And from how the vase purrs, I'm not so sure if she wants to be changed back.
We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out...
Am I King Kong? No, it's a city of midgets! I leave and find I'm gay. Gay bugs come out of the closet too,
storming the fundamentalist flies of Heaven. And then Vor, the purple alien, does something peculiar...
CAUTION: LOOKS DOWN ON HOMOPHOBIC MIDGETS
I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies, boating on lava through the earth's core,
and now when a volcano erupts, I know who it is that's quarreling beneath..
by Wayan; 2013/4/13, an epic shamanic epiphany dream with tinges of ESP
I meet my Creator--a were-deer. No wonder I'm a shy, horny herbivore
so unlike these naked apes! She tells me my divine purpose...
CAUTION: MONOTHEISTIC BLASPHEMY; E.S.P. FLASH; NUDE DEER
My girlfriend and I ride out the Great Flood in the White Submarine,
but there are romantic complications. Some things never change...
Some shy folks don't even know they're dragons....
I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls.
But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples...
Six generations in the future, I find a poodle who can defuse the bomb my snotty friends can't...
CAUTION: MAD SCIENTIST, EXHIBITIONIST GIRLFRIEND, POODLE MOCKERY
Each spring my mom took us up to Yellow Crane Tower.
One night I dreamed I rode the crane over the city of Wuhan...
I'm in line to meet a shockingly accurate psychic. But she's running late, so as I frame my question...
CAUTION: I'M NOT GAY, BUT I SURE AM QUEER