The real Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to step in
and explain dreams to the waking world...
Sex-and-violence is one word in America, because our ratings system TEACHES us to link them...
CAUTION: THE F-WORD AND SENSIBLE IDEAS
I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the dimwits...
DREAM: to stop an idiotic bout of war-fever, I have to take on the power of the Goddess herself...
NEXT DAY: I stumble on a fantasy book, Ariel, full of details straight out of the dream...
THAT NIGHT: I sign the Unicorn Commitment, but personalize the magical contract...
CAUTION: DISSES REAGAN & SOUTHERN MASCULINITY
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
The modern Aztec Empire is as bad as Anglos toward other Indians, for it's not poverty that hurts...
A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman,
starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)...
CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY
A capsule history of a taboo that changed startlingly over 3000 years... does sin depend on timing?
CAUTION: SEX TALK, TABOOS
In the future, books morph as they crawl round the web, till just the popular bits are left...
CAUTION: YOU TOO COULD BE CENSORED
If artists do this with ink, what makes you think genetic engineers will do any better with flesh?...
CAUTION: DON'T DO THIS AT HOME
A perfectionist gardener builds perfect planterboxes while his seedlings starve. And so I left the burbs...
Two giants wrestle in the Chinese mountains. Who'll win, Red or Yellow? But when I wake...
What my home town will become, if you fools keep burning gas and spewing CO2...
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 rich man dreamt thrice that hidden in St Berner's Well near his house was a golden collar. He reached in and...
CAUTION: OW
I dream an economist admits not only that eco-regs pay off, but that economic theory is faulty. Dream on!
One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in...
Is digital Web blather any better than old-fashioned, live, analog blather?
CAUTION: STUPIDITY
I'm in an airport full of aliens who, when bored, crystallize until things get fun again.
My long planeflight glows like a dragon-hoard! But it's lonely...
Happy beer drinkers from the Now invade the Tower of the Future.
Eggheads find idiots as lovable as kittens, and just can't eject them...
CAUTION: ELITIST; DISSES TRUMPISM
A woman explains why the subjective rate of change has slowed--we EXPECT life to be different...
Elegant, ancient, the tower rose into the clouds. Inside? Smoke & darkness. Workers roast meat...
A free university just opened in town. The curriculum evolves by natural
selection. Anyone can teach! Should I? Just don't eat the food...
The Europeans have another great war, killing off their men. Will that break the cycle of violence? Like a...
I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--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. One night,
my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a 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...
2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
I dream I'm addressing a dream convention, but I'm autistic! I MUST act bizarre, just to function...
I find myself sketching the slope of progress up to the coming singularity, and notice a hidden stability...
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
A book claims Hitler led not a political party but a cult out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream...
CAUTION: RABID RANTING
I'm in an alien empire dominated by big lizard-bugs. Humanoids are second-class, but
they're trusted with weapons--I witness a human squad executing a lizard for dissidence...
CAUTION: REPRESSION, OR IMMUNE SYSTEM?
I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience...
A sociologist exposes the smugness of Britain's 1%, but the writer's denial of any innate differences
can be just as pernicious as elitism...
CAUTION: EGALITARIANISM ON TRIAL
After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival...
A scholar on Middle Earth warns our obsession with public transparency keeps our psychology crude...
I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much?
CAUTION: IDEAS
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
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
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...
Shevek invents time-travel and discreetly alters the past. But the future alters
Shevek's present, to undo his changes! Who's sabotaging him? Or... WHAT?
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
I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I worry--the human population boom
means experienced souls are scarce. Are most folks you meet really dogs, cats... rats?
CAUTION: MYSTIC ELITISM
I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge,
while an Anglo rants at me about the Space Race...
A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines...
I dreamed the Stealth Bomber wasn't a machine, but a gigantic Owl-god. And Stealth was worshiped...
CAUTION: CREEPING PACIFISM
An artist I know dismisses her (gorgeous) art as just therapy... while the museums are full of trash. Why?
I meet some alien wolves, and see the social scene as they do--pack, status issues. But then...
I cross a pasture & slip thru a barbwire fence, as I explain cows, wires & organic life to an energy-being...
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...
1: I failed to save a magic tree. It fell and killed someone. I'm racked with guilt...
2: A giant pinball game on a tilted oval relief-map. But you can only win as a team of six friends...
3: A Caribbean girl with a weird aura tries to align two magic crystals to heal herself...
CAUTION: BREASTS, MY LITTLE PONY AS ROLEMODEL
Yesterday, Hitler marched into town. I was born before the Industrial Revolution, and am now about 200 years old...
THAT DAY: art nonstop! Put myself down for obsessing. Empty man!
THAT NIGHT: I'm in rural China. Two women tell me their village declared them
dead, killed by demons. So are they ghosts, or just written off by idiots?
MORNING: wait--have I been calling me dead? Oh...
George Washington faces sniper fire, kamikaze birds
and critics claiming the fight for freedom is doomed...
After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power...
I'm assisting a hard birth as photos are shot for an article. Why's birth so rarely seen, what do we fear?
In a class, asked to share a bit about myself, I lie. Why? Not only are people like me
illegal, my particular story would be seen as impossible...
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow
deep social change is. How we cling to the old horrors!
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
I'm in an apartment co-op in Silicon Valley where people share their skills--till rush hour begins...