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...
In a corrupt world, a talisman called the Rai Dragon offers hope of real change--IF it can be found, AND used by someone decent-hearted...
A human pinball game played in the dark, with bells for stoppers, sorting people into a Gaussian bell-curve...
The crystalline figure on the cover of the book in my dream seemed to hold as many answers as its title...
I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape...
I meet William F. Buckley and his beloved pet pig. Only the hog's a live H-Bomb, and the leash is a trigger...
CAUTION: REPULSIVE GUY, REPULSIVE PET, REPULSIVE ISSUE
At a snake-weaving party I flirt with my anima, who tells me how the cake fell off the roof. I think “At last we’re really connecting!”...
Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire, a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm?
A mystical vision of the Cosmic Egg gets messy when it hatches and the Bird escapes...
I lead my daughter up a thorny path, but she’s getting badly scratched. Shall I leave her in that fishing village? She wants to...
One dream-poem in haiku style each day for a month! Ghosts, snow, penguins, yoga babies, elves who leave their tree...
Tarot cards fuse and meanings layer, to warn me I've similarly (con)fused real and trance-induced memories during therapy...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
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...
I've always loved curves, color, dreams, sex, texture... and planning, too.
So one day I drew 100 black boxes in ink--no color, no curves, no erasure! And then I began to seek...
God built 3 dials to check: body, soul, and time. But the Holy Spirit's lazy, only checks one! It's up to us...
I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone...
CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT STREET STONERS
I wanted to steal this pink woolen sweater. But I didn't need a sweater. What I really wanted to steal was middle-class security...
One wizardry-classmate summons strange beings; another's learned how not to. Some things should be avoided at rush hour...
A goddess in a dream once told me to seek 3 and only 3 qualities in a mate...
CAUTION: NUDITY
The life-loop. A woman bears a child who grows up to become herself, who bears a child who...
CAUTION: SKETCHY NUDITY
Humanity in the future desperately needs the magic words from the past to free them. But... "pickle?"
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...
I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect...
I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience...
Two boys dream robed figures climb in the window to cut their hair--and find, awake, someone has. While Pliny learns...
I dream my theatre friends are particles dancing inside an atomic nucleus--particles that reveal their character, motivations and power. And I'm one too...
I'm a stratospheric bat who finds a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism or a Hindu blessing? Neither! An Octopian frisbee...
I held the strangest and most entrancing object I have ever seen: the very citadel of life itself!...
Our Lady of the Yoyo plays with our yin-yang world, trying to keep the spin going on each bounce...
A grassy hill in a previous drawing of mine suddenly looked like Big Hair, so I tried to grow a body that fit that 'do...
I don't understand this poem's symbolism or even its style. It came to me whole, in a dream...
"Our resurrection is not entirely in the future; it's also in us, it begins, it's already begun..."
In our steamy future, after the cities drown, I'm hiking through Rainbow Tunnel, when I meet a holy man...
In a Scythian church, a painting says "Little St Bridget was bound so hard that when they released her she flew"...
My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV--till it melts, and a terrifying giant rises to chases me...
A Goddess-worshiping general gets a visit from her twin daughters who bring a puzzling message...
Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last...
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns. I track down who cursed me...
I slept late and felt a bit stiff, but until my friends pulled it out of my neck I had no idea...
Earth is always shown from the side, never its axis. But from the pole, it's a vast wheel: the real Wheel of...
An alien tiger and his human girlfriend herd me to their house and show me a cube of raw flesh... but why?
Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake...
I wake up in a weird sexual situation. But I'm still dreaming--I wake again to find I'm in a weirder sexual situation. But I'm still...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, (ANTI?)ROMANTICISM
I was dead. A weed grew from my heart; then two streams poured out--not water or blood but experiences. I asked the weed what it was doing, and it said...
I find the well of women's wisdom. Lucky I had a sex change! A girl sneers "this wisdom's narrow." Is it?