a dream of flying, shapeshifting and spiritual advice.
When a flood traps me in my cabin, I dream I meet
an old man who warns me "Let your butterflies go"...
I dream I'm addressing a dream convention, but I'm autistic! I MUST act bizarre, just to function...
I'm trying to get a moontan when my mom appears.
My astral body starts orbiting her like a moon. Uh-oh...
I'm an ambassador from the Milky Way to the energy-beings
who rule the Magellanic Clouds. Or am really just their pet?
After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and...
CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON
I make a weird vow--while I absent-mindedly slice up other people's cars! The next day...
CAUTION: DREAM VANDALISM
A man mocks a turtle he caught, calling it "inept"--he knows adept turtles, then?
I distract this fisherman-ranter while the turtle quietly tiptoes...
Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me...
I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
My neighbor thinks I'm sleeping with his wife, who he abuses. Only I think she may be me...
CAUTION: IMPLIED BATTERING
My sister hears a prowler. I go out blind in the dark, and learn she's right. But what a strange intruder!
A whole convention of adults abused as kids shows me how hard it is to hide the damage...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
A capsule history of a taboo that changed startlingly over 3000 years... does sin depend on timing?
CAUTION: SEX TALK, TABOOS
The Europeans have another great war, killing off their men. Will that break the cycle of violence? Like a...
I dream an economist admits not only that eco-regs pay off, but that economic theory is faulty. Dream on!
Zooming on freeways--carless levitation! But the Principal tries to punish us. And we resist... don't we?
DREAM: a 1950s newsreel shows J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, staged a coup.
So his enemies dropped a tactical nuke on his HQ, killing hundreds in the street...
NEXT DAY: TV news shows clips from The Day After. My nightmare newsreel...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND POSSIBLE ESP
A dream of exhibitionist girls playing with breast milk turns out not to be symbolic, but psychic...
CAUTION: BREASTS
A boy offends his uncle the King, who transforms him into a fox. Grounded! But Fox-Boy runs away...
A prisoner's allowed to see his middle-class lover only in a seedy bar by the jail. But she likes the place...
CAUTION: THE JOYS OF SLUMMING
My anima Silky plans to kill a man who hurt her. Instead, we make them re-enact it, with variations...
All that spring I dreamed of climbing, cold, fatigue, risk, and fear.
But shamanic training involves toughening; ascent isn't always easy flight...
I'm trapped in a post-apocalypse pulp story! Fun for my readers, but not for me! How to escape?
I'm a Martian revolutionary, making the glaciers grow. The equator's still dry, but change is coming...
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
The teacher of our sex workshop picks me for a demonstration in front of everyone. Gulp...
CAUTION: WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I date a girl with a mysterious syndrome, but soon I become a monkeyfaced con-man. And SHE becomes...
A serial killer stalks our office, but our bosses deny it and do nothing.
I kill him. He revives--over and over! A robot I have to disassemble...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
A woman masturbates constantly at work, then greets businessmen with her hot sticky handshake...
CAUTION: SEX
A weird identity-confusion at a dance hints I'm simultaneously psychic, autistic, and... really stupid.
Two gunmen break in, call me by a strange name, and demand I repay a loan I never borrowed...
In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become
my businessman-friend's chair! Generous, huh?
My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs...
I dreamed that huge nouveau-riche polar bears invaded San Francisco, evicting us locals...
CAUTION: CORRUPTION, URSACIDE, MATH!
I have no roots but those I steal--until my father leads me to a sacred tree, saying "Look to your mother"...
Sitting in an eviction-lawyer's waiting room, of all places, I discover my next artistic direction...
CAUTION: SEX/GENDER ISSUES
A detective talks all his suspects into suicide. But they still bury me in wood pulp and beat me to death...
CAUTION: BAD POLICE PROCEDURE
In a world where respectable men wear masks, an old, old man rebels in the crudest way he can...
A skater so hot, she tears her clothes off and starts melting the ice! I'm shy with her: thin ice, you know...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change...
A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary.
Still, such a treasure-trove of kindred spirits! Can I find a witch to love?
CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY...
I pray for love and promptly meet Blue, whose mom treats her like a kid. We change that, but it's messy...
A shaman designs a rite to focus the village's healing attention on her client; the rest is just showmanship...
Corruption in my town causes a bizarre death. But is that all? I smell smoke--will the city burn?
By a midnight lake, I comfort an abused girl in the mud. But two figures with long knives loom...
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'm a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck...
In a darkened room of deaf women watching a slideshow,
I find no one can hear me in either English or Sign...
I'm at a Robert Bly camp for men only. But I'm no man--not even human--some faun or satyr-like species...
CAUTION: THIS 'TEMENOS' IS A SACRED PHALLIC IMAGE
Captain Kirk (Starfleet, retired) saves us all from terrorists at a powerplant, but he forgot something...
How I found out what I really wanted at the bisexual ball. Really, I'm not disappointed...
CAUTION: OH COME ON, READ THE TITLE
Two time-traveling paleontologists get a gift from their friend the Bee Queen. A gift with six-inch fangs...
On an alien world I meet a judge from the newly discovered
galaxy of Antlia, and learn distance can lend objectivity...
Body after body is peeled away revealing truth inside truth...
CAUTION: GROTESQUE
Improv singing with my friend Mark, this bizarre songlet popped out:
"It's my understanding you shouldn't make love to a tuuubaaaa."
Silly, but when I woke, I realized I sorta had been...
Gunsel kills my friend Crystal in a flaming aircar crash. But that's not enough--he comes back, and...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet...
CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO!
A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly & deniably as me and my sisters...
CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy...
Two big spoiled realities pester me to take care of them. At last I go on shamanic strike...
A free-lance torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when I fall asleep at last...
CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE
We escape three trolls, but then our author Tolkien breaks in
to explain an Elvish word. Now we're really doomed...
The mayor declares war on bikers, blames us for gridlock! I dream of Rosa Parks' influence and realize...
Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and...
I love a girl who wants to settle in a radioactive jungle, a scar from an ancient war. Stay or go?
Evolution is like baseball--a game of inches, efficiency, constraints. Surely we can do better....
CAUTION: CONTAINS THOUGHT
Sylvia, the fabulous Dog Singer, leads me through a spy film, a French romantic farce, Fellini's Rome...
A glamorous heiress casts a spell that spills over, so I can have anyone I see! But who DO I see?...
A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the dimwits...
In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
Gandhi and I must run barefoot across a burning racetrack miles wide... the Ascetic Desert?
I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope
for love is to conjure up a girl out of a trout and a puppy...
I dreamed my sculptor friend Dawn insisted I sculpt a girl really,
um, relaxing. Took me a mere 13 years to act on the dream!
CAUTION: SKETCHED & SCULPTED MASTURBATION
I try to rescue my girl friends losing a boat-chess game
to a devil, but they'd rather be with bad-boy him than me...
CAUTION: NUDE DEVIL
I live in a haunted house where ghosts push you to suicide. But they're as tired of it as I am...
After the eco-crash, I try to join a tribe in the jungle that was Oakland. But they reject me, for good reason...
Hong Kong's not devolving to China, but to Faerie. As governor, I have to defend human rights, so...
A teen awards me prizes for art and writing. I wake to see her on TV--a gymnast after a prize herself...
I always thought I saw differently than others, but when someone builds the Goggles...
Widely held notions manifest easier. I could forge Sauron's Ring, and it'd really work! But do I want to?...
Evicted. Lawsuit. I dream a lawyer sends me a letter full of fox-girls! In East Asia, foxes
mean trouble, but these are friendly--good news is coming! I wake to find we've won a home...
I was an anorexic fox-girl, till this phrase galvanized me. Now I pump iron and eat what I like, and...
I love to play, but I'm a shy fox. And pushing myself to be socially brave has unforeseen drawbacks...
Nancy Friday describes a kind of weak guy disturbingly like me--I think chronic illness has...
My friend Beryl's ghost makes mad love to me--just long enough to swipe my Kundalini energy...
CAUTION: SUCCUBISM?
Hundreds of dusty drawers, clearly not not touched in years. I open one
to find cymbals. Some part of me knows it's a dream and sees the pun...
I dream we're on a miserable camping trip. So why, when I wake,
do I think it's a diagnostic dream? It's that triple pun...
I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons...
CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY
Mark Clifton wrote science fiction tales of mutant psychic geniuses--only he wrote from life...
A doorway not taken (for the most sensible of reasons) provoked a magical dream of what I missed...
My job is to set up portals to other realities, and
create secret routes through our world between them...
When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum,
she also bares a human-supremacist plot...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM
The friends of a touchy aviator have to kidnap her just to give her a present... and WHAT a present...
I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons...
CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY
At the beach, my friends start a sleepy anonymous orgy... I'm single and frustrated, but is this what I want?
CAUTION: SEX
I asked my dreams "should I return to school?" They replied with this bizarre tale of sabotage...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE TO DUMB INSTRUMENTS
A woman is giving birth and there is no doctor or midwife around.
Though reluctant, I have at least assisted at births, so...
Two giants wrestle in the Chinese mountains. Who'll win, Red or Yellow? But when I wake...
Suddenly I see the notion of "cool" as just another Euro theft. Being cool shouts "I'm insecure"...
I couldn't make it to Spain to see the Running of the Bulls, so I found an American equivalent...
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
A Gypsy man invites me to dance. But he cuts my arm, deep; then even his touch multiplies
my wounds. Last is a needle through my wrist. But I'm committed to the full dance now...
CAUTION: BLOOD; CURIOUSLY, NOT PAIN
I turn shy with women I like. So I wish for a dating coach, who appears! Then I feel dumb: how come I...
Ballooning over Middle Earth with a metamorphosing butterfly-girl, we drift into forbidden territory:
My wound's taped up, but hurts bad. I peel off the bandage. Nothing! Gone. So I check my other body...
A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch.
But she dropped her fur coat, and I recognized a kindred spirit...
Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped...
CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
An ancient rite has headgear that today picks up radio stations. What'd it pick up in ancient times?
A woman discovers that her new use for a truck with a telescoping arm has philosophical consequences...
I'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS
I distract a mad gunman in a crowd. I suspect I'm dreaming, but it still seems a bit too noble...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON CRAZED KILLERS AT HOME
Sure I've been through hell, but how the hell did that get me elected archangel? And why's my butt itch?
CAUTION: ITCHY BUTT
I camp in the Amazon but in the morning find I slept on top of something disturbing...
Visiting Time City, I witness the "suicide" of a woman named Thieu but suspect it was really assassination...
CAUTION: SUICIDE? MURDER?
Ballooning over Middle Earth with a metamorphosing butterfly-girl, we drift into forbidden territory:
We hippies won, but now we're backward and isolated; it's time we joined the rest of our alternate Earth...
A time-loop introduces me to a future self full of innocent enthusiasm. Maddening!
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
I join the alliance against humorless humanoids who are invading funny-animal planets...
At the airport, a new automatic photo booth shoots your memories!
Julie can't resist... and emerges, excited, to find that...
I was a ballerina in blue who learned to fly; and I met a centauress who loved dance too. The dancers fused...
Artists have their own strange culture, and we can unintentionally mislead therapists unfamiliar with us...
CAUTION: THERAPESE
I go to a lucid-dreaming party, meet the Child who Dreams the World, and find the Body under the Bed...
A dream girl with a giant ski-jump nose turns out to be less symbolic than expected...
Okay, say evolution is driven by things (I don't care what) besides natural selection. How could you tell?
I keep dreaming of this path or road arching up into the sky...
The far future. The moon falls to Earth. But then... the moon unfalls!
Golden light nurtures a rebirth of our dying ecology & civilization...
A strange, horny, frustrated being, part human part horse, who lacks hands to hold the centaurs...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION
My dead friend Charlie and his sister and I are driving around
Lake Erie. We know it’s a dream and he’s dead, and yet we’re joyous...
The beauty parlor on the edge of the canyon crawls with rattlesnakes.
I float in the air above, but even up here, knots of levitating snakes...
I dreamed a large meteor had struck the Earth. I found my Dad just as the shockwave hit...
CAUTION: APOCALYPSE
After 18 years of exile, Fariba in a lucid dream visits her old friend Yalda, in an unfamiliar home.
That night, Yalda has a lucid dream in which Fariba visits. On waking, each writes to the other...
I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
Be a web junkie. Instead of driving around in a gas-hog, you'll save the planet by staying in, passive...
CAUTION: NUDITY; MOCKS GOD, CARS, AND WEB-PORN--IS NOTHING SACRED?
Just an abstract birdlike acrylic squiggle I liked. Sorry, no story...
by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1997, a collage on a dream-idea
A phrase from a dream, "the remains of men and women," led to this image
of a black sun in the underworld amid strata of time and the psyche...
Chased by the old movie Wolfman, I get tired of fear and turn on the monster. I take on his wolfness!
But in me, wolf-nature manifests differently--as a human body with a calm, happy wolf's head...