One in particular recurs in my dreams: a lone tower on a craggy hill, round, tapered, with a spiral stair, and twelve arched windows in the room at the top. As it happens, I know its origin: it's a mixture of Coit Tower in San Francisco, a strange round fluted phallic thing built to mimic a gigantic firehose nozzle (because the woman who funded it had a serious thing for fires, and firemen, and this is, after all, San Francisco), mixed with Wind Tower, from Patricia McKillip's "The Riddle of Stars", the last tower standing in a ruined city, unclimbable, the refuge of a being who'd die without that hiding place. The image haunted me, for I'm like that too--need solitude and privacy to survive. And, in this busy seductive world, my dreams need to remind me of it constantly.

But your dream-towers are probably quite different.

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	ABOVE THE WHITE TOWER: by Wayan; 1990/1/14, a flying sex-change dream of love Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws... CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
	ARE YOU READY?: by a Minnesota woman; before 1961, two predictive dreamlets, one useful The elevator man in funereal black said in a sepuchral voice "Are you ready?" I decided I'd wait...
	A BEAM OF FLIGHT: by Wayan; 135K, 1992/4/19, a dream of love and shellshock. I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying... CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO!
	CURSING ISABELLA: by Wayan; 1992/8/19, a thoughtful dream of sorcery. How I cursed Isabella the sofa sorceress, cursed her with a blueberry. And why that stinks... CAUTION: UNDER THE MAGIC, IDEAS
	ELF CIRCLE; 2011/3/19 by Wayan; a complex advisory dream. 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...
	EVERLASTING AND PERPETUAL NIGHTMARE: by Shawn King; c. 2009/2/10; two installments of a lifelong nightmare Lucifer throws firebolts from a Montreal tower as monsters stalk people on the streets; then a great flood washes us away...
	FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--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. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown 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... If 2600K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	FLY IN THE SLUM: by Wayan; 1996/10/14, a possibly psychic flying dream. In a rough part of San Francisco, I climb to the roof of a tower and jump off, but not to kill myself...
	FRANCHISE! (illustrated text version): by Wayan; 170K, or new comics version, 770K; 1995/10/12, a comic dream with a serious warning. 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
	IN MY DARKEST HOUR: by Arlo Guthrie; 1967, a song heard in a dream. A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside...
	JAMES MERRILL REMEMBERED: by Rachel Hadas; around May 1995; two dream-poems Soon after my friend and mentor James Merrill died, I had recurring, elusive dreams about him...
	THE MOUNTAIN, THE MAGPIE AND THE ROAD: dreamed 2013/3/26 by Rustling Leaves; an issue-baring nightmare I visit a beautiful artificial mountain with loved ones--but my demons overwhelm me one by one. CAUTION: SUICIDAL FEELINGS, BODY HATE/FATPHOBIA, IMPLIED RAPE
	PYLONS: by Louis MacNeice; Jan. 1940. A surreal political dream. I was on a steamer run amok, in a boiling yellow incredible sea out of which great pylons rose...
	THE PYRAMID COW: by Wayan; 1999/12/18, a dreamtale. Protestors occupy the Transamerica Pyramid and install a cow as CEO... a Cash Cow?
	STRUCK BY THOUGHT: by Wayan; 1983, a picture-poem experiment: one dream per stanza! Five short dreams exploring the weight of culture on our animal selves...
	TAROT: THE SOLAR REVOLUTION: by Wayan; 42K. Tarot card, 3x5", summer 1979. The card of revolution! The old towers of strength come down, not through war but obsolescence...
	THE THIEF OF DREAMS: by Wayan; 200K, an illustrated dream-play, 1996/11/29. I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend... CAUTION: GAY MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
	TIAMAT'S REBELLION: by Wayan; 2 ill., 1988/1/1, a dream about neoteny. I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. I dream she leads a revolution on a starship...
	TOADFISH TOWERS: by Wayan; 1992/8/6, a psychic little dreamtale. I'm in Houston, gawking at giant starfishy towers looming through the smog. Their shapes are familiar...
	TOWERS: by Wayan; 1998; digital. Inspired by flying dreams but no specific dream.. Cities are fun when you're a bird--all those updrafts and perches and nests with great views...
	THE 1200-STEP PROGRAM: by Wayan; 1987/12/17, an illustrated dreamtale. I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones... CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM
	WILLPOWER (HAPPINESS): by Wayan; 1991/1/17, a didactic dream. At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me why she did it--and why she regrets it...
	THE WOODRING LAYER: by Wayan; 2008/7/7. A dream questioning art's job. I see great towers rising into a fog zone--or is it another universe, with different rules? How do you draw both worlds?
	ZILLIONAIRE'S TOWER: by Wayan; 2012/2/9, a financial climbing dream My mild yuppie friend Lou climbs a bank tower to reach his rich mentor, and wins an internship. But as he swears his oath... CAUTION: DISSES CUTTHROAT CAPITALISM

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