It was on a beach. Inside, a black thing squirmed and boiled.
Despite all the tales of vengeful djinn, I pull the cork...
I'm a faculty wife bored out of my mind until two students have sex in my yard. I ignore HIM and jump HER...
CAUTION: SEX
Three teasing sex-dreamlets chipping away at my shyness with women I like...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
I win a prize on a gameshow, but collecting is another story, since the show is run from Hell...
My skateboard-riding mermaid girlfriend and I bind ourselves together by the magical power of names...
A wild flying dream lands me among feral children fighting to live in a glass conservatory of lost flowers...
Writer Alice Miller tried painting her childhood monsters. I tried it and got surprise messages...
CAUTION: FRANK LANGUAGE
In older studies at least, women dream of both sexes but men dream largely of men. Just like TV, huh?
CAUTION: YOU'LL NEVER WATCH TV AGAIN
My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born...
CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY
I'm mortal, yet I'm offered a residency in the Commune of the Gods,
along with Xena the Amazon Warrior and... Little Red Riding Hood?
Sally Morgan, in her famous autobiography, details racism and family silence, but also her
family's matter-of-fact acceptance of premonitions and dreams. I feel acceptance envy!
A sex dream warning "to find your soulmate, learn to spot the opposite: cute political and spiritual idiots..."
CAUTION: SEX AND POLITICS
Strange oaths are proposed for the first expedition to the Uranian moon Miranda...
Hide-and-seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF...
CAUTION: SEX
My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Writer Alice Miller tried painting her childhood monsters. I tried it and got surprise messages...
CAUTION: FRANK LANGUAGE
The modern Aztec Empire is as bad as Anglos toward other Indians, for it's not poverty that hurts...
Part an experiment in wild textures, part a "Where's Waldo" game to see if you'd notice my self-portrait...
DAY: we're preparing for a trip to Malta to see ancient sites.
DREAM: Hiking, I discover a gigantic white snake. It feels like a good omen...
On a downtown street, a classmate is singing for change. I can't resist seeing if I can distract her...
CAUTION: THEY'RE BOTH EXHIBITIONISTS
A Buddhist student, troubled by a corporation marketing a product called
"Satori", summons the ghost of her beloved mentor for advice...
What my home town will become, if you fools keep burning gas and spewing CO2...
Being a hippie artist in San Francisco today feels like being an animal in an African game park...
A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil...
CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION?
Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor...
CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
General De Gaulle gives me a ride in his armchair with the plexiglass
roof. Alarming--since he drives backward at full speed...
She didn't want to be there. She closed her eyes and went elsewhere. So I painted where she went...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Coyote's pagan parody of the Christian Lord's prayer. Well, actually, it's kind of sweet..
CAUTION: SACRILEGE, ESPECIALLY THE BIT ABOUT TEMPTATION
I realize how strongly environmental illness sculpts my view of the world...
CAUTION: CHICKEN BONDAGE
I wake to find I have two penises, one connected, one free-floating! How do its sensations reach my brain?
CAUTION: WANDERING WEENIES!
The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich what they really want: ranking and attention...
CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS
A deep portrait of a lesbian couple, back when no one else was even acknowledged gays existed...
Why wait for the Rapture when you can use a chinup machine and raise yourself off that cross?...
CAUTION: NUDE PSEUDO-CRUCIFIXION, SACRILEGIOUS SELF-HELP
A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane...
CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER
I wake up praying for love--and then realize my wish is contradictory, and revise it to...
I heard a noise out my window. I looked out, and saw something strange...
At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
A small statue of this beautiful creature who keeps appearing in my dreams...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A surreal statue of a naked body spilling out of the wall as if someone's caught between dimensions...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Soul-Poodle is torn between Le Bone Dieu and Dancing Pussy. Who will our horny dogma chase?
CAUTION: MUTT SMUT
I tried a Redon theme: huge, floating eyes. His are scary, but mystical; mine came out as guilty terror...
I made a cold moon of burnished metal, rusted and scraped. But then this warm mare reared...
We're exploring the English farm we inherited, when The Wild Hunt storms over the hill...
A famous inventor is descended from foxes. Their faces teach me something about beauty and character...
Coyote invades an abstract painting to expose why the art world loves that high-concept, impersonal art...
A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson...
CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
Are dreamworlds grim, on average? Do our dreams just express fears, or try to SOLVE our problems?
I'm holding a pornographic novel, trying to keep it dry, as huge waves
flood the room. The book and I are both going to get drenched...
I'm holding a pornographic novel, trying to keep it dry, as huge waves
flood the room. The book and I are both going to get drenched...
Day Me curls up and Night Me unfolds: a girl with dark moth-wings, not angel-white but camouflaged...
A writer invents an absurd setting for his Utopia, a lens of ice floating atop
Saturn's atmosphere--but then such sessile lenses turn out to be real.
The dream's details suggest buying a certain stock. I do, and...
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
I dreamed that as a kid I saw two girls making love in the bushes, awakening my own
sexual orientation. Later, I saw the bigger picture, which wasn't about sex at all...
CAUTION: SEX
I might have been less cowed by the storm-face, if I'd seen it was made of little foxes just like me...
A sexy meadow-spirit of my California drygrass hills...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Exploring a sunken sub, my buddies salvage a something ticking. Toss it back, but it won't stay sunk...
A hard-hitting rap on Satan's dumbest disguise. Yet he's gotten away with it! The shocking truth...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE! SACRILEGE! MUCILAGE! (FOR THE MOUSTACHE)
America isn't the Melting Pot. It's the Humping Pot...
CAUTION: THE BEAST WITH 300,000,000 BACKS
Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
A writer I meet is either flirting with me obscenely, or
advising me about eyecare, or... are those the same?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
A woman explains why the subjective rate of change has slowed--we EXPECT life to be different...
I'm in Theremin's lab, around 1930, trying to play one of his experimental instruments. Why won't it work?
Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL?
I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing...
CAUTION: UNROMANTIC
My recent attitude changes are so big, I can fly now. Yet I hide them, lie to my family... why?
My uncle is Jupiter. Not the god, the planet. All my relatives are planets. So am I. And I'm invaded...
James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
Business solved the problem of cheap foreign labor: slavery's legal again. So our firm buys cheap losers...
In a future where we gengineer ourselves instead of others, we no longer have to choose lesser evils...
Mom's vanished, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us
alone now. But he's barely coping. And he's me...
I'm Hitler's girlfriend. Not Eva Braun, just me--gentle, weak, thrown in among killers. What can I do?
I love curves, not the chunky forms of this machine-ruled world...
Not easy to fly without a plane, but I practice over a lonely lagoon.
Even if I panic some nesting swans. They'll get used to me...
A plague begins on terraformed Mars and spreads to Earth. Population biology made it inevitable...
CAUTION: POPULATION CRASH (OFFSTAGE)
I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal...
CAUTION: MATH AND WAR
A witch in the future invents a new way to terraform small dense moons--and it'd work!...
Why is Captain Janeway doing the tango with another woman, in a creek, wearing a mermaid tail?
In a world of hideous haircuts (flagging your politics) I meet a dragon
running for office. But is this real or a dream? Both/neither! It's...
Sexy dreams of Chinese archeology, authorized by the fairies, make me face that my family abused me...
At a party I meet a friend I thought was dead. She's become a small talking rabbit made of cake, and I...
CAUTION: UGH
I'm on a women's sports team, and I should be in paradise. But I want more; not love exactly, but...
My paleontologist mom can scuttle like a lizard, so why can't she manage a dinosaur gait?
I'm in the park, feeling sad, till a girl on the lawn near me semaphores a message via rings and turquoise...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Dictator (of all people) helps me start healing and learn to fly...
CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE
I lose my temper. I don't just fly off the handle--I fly off a cliff and out to sea! Why'd I risk drowning?..
VERY mixed media--the boat is warped wood. And the story is warped more...
CAUTION: SEX, SHAME FROM EARLY TRAUMA
I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle...
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.
Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN...
I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Dictator (of all people) helps me start healing and learn to fly...
CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE
At a party, a sad girl attracts me. But to reach her, I must have an affair with a sexy, frustrated writer...
I was fatally wounded in a Star Wars battle, so I shot myself in the head.
For a solid minute, there was nothing but blackness...
In the Los Angeles ruins, a wizard-gang jumps us. Desperate, I try a crazy un-Angeleno move: I use my feet...
I meet a nice werewolf in a hall of past-life junk, so sharp and rusty we dare not play...
My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I bike deep into Time Hall, barging through security gates of amnesia, to climb the midden of the past...
I'd been reading Francesca Lia Block's I WAS A TEENAGE FAIRY...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I dream my watch is way off and I'll be late. When I wake, I check
my daughter's watch. They agree. Can't BOTH be wrong... can they?
I flew over a forest. I noted the trees were all the same, and told myself to remember this...
I'm trying to bathe, but there are Boat People in the tub!
And my inner Grandma's spying on me, behind her fan...
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 don't know if the fox-shepherdess ate all her sheep, or if she herded invisible and quite different things...
The white horse, Earth, ambles on between the stars, and then unfolds into a swan...
I dreamed my friend Beryl's soul was a giant rabbit, arguing in paradise with our mutual guardian angel...
When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert...
I'm at the Fringe Festival, onstage in a Performance Orgy, playing two roles:
a leopard with human pets and a leopard's human pet. But I'm not quite playing...
CAUTION: STAGED ORGY
My glass heart survived the rocket's blast, but I'm stranded on this barren world.
Wrapped in glamor, we climb a steep forbidding stair into a rosy, fake tomorrow...
It's hard being even mildly multiple. Here three of my least compatible personalities line up and...
I'm on a beach in Mexico with a baby--my only souvenir of an affair I can't recall.
I'm a mom? My whole life will change! Wait. Is this real, or...
As new political outrages flow forth, I feel like a horse wary of a sweet-talking human, and I think...
On my bad days, as I'm shackled to the wall of my illness or shyness...
You're looking down on a landscape at something red, scalloped and twisty. A barrier or a path to follow?
The past. Burma. I'm shown a stupa covered in gold leaf, and given a key
to a tunnel where they say a tooth of Buddha is encased in glass...
No dream, no plot. I saw myself as a horse grazing in a forest of giant mosses, lifting spore-packets...
Soon after I was given the name Spotted Fawn, I dreamed I was one,
fleeing faceless hunters under the full moon. There's history in this...
Two of us meditation students dreamed one night that we were ice skating in Holland, helping each other...