I provoke a shooting! Wandering through time, I forget how much some cultures fear witches...
Wayan dreams of surprising Dawn on the toilet while she dreams that flushing away evidence of Foul Play won’t work...
I was on a path winding over grassy hills, while humans zoomed by on a freeway below...
I wander a sunken maze, meet a playful woman, find a hidden treasure. Meanwhile, my friend Zooop...
After reading a booklet of dreams about money by Wayan, Althea has four such dreams of her own
challenging family ideas of class, gender, inheritance... and then practical investment advice!...
I'm in Japan, where Rumiko Takahashi tells me of a tragic chicken
who longs to be a lounge singer...
A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do...
CAUTION: SEX
I'm actress Nicole Kidman, clinging to the dome of City Hall like King Kong, ripping it to shreds! Why?
CAUTION: VANDALISM, REVERSE SEXISM, EXHIBITIONISM
A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable...
A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons...
A crowd watches from shore as a great glowing meteor descends into the sea. I fear a tsunami, but...
I'm a conscientious saurian who feels obliged to duel with a hot-tempered friend.
Preparing, wanting to fight fair, I don't just file my spurs blunt, I...
My crazy friend Wayne goes bowling for busses with a black egg. Wait! Crazy? Or... predictive?
CAUTION: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE BEHAVES DISGRACEFULLY
I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change...
CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure...
I meet a Nightmare in heat who wants me. A human girl by me says I'll catch an equine sex-disease...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge,
while an Anglo rants at me about the Space Race...
Golden Gate Park's arboretum, in San Francisco, is home to feral cats, skunks, raccoons, people...
What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts
and feelings invade you? When other's bodies invade you, it's molestation...
My part in the revolution in Guinea-Bissau: substantial, but not exactly planned. I just wanted out...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
My friend Linda and I are walking in the Castro, when a tourist girl jams her tongue in Linda's mouth...
CAUTION: SERIOUS TONGUE
A huge spiral nautilus needs healing; its coils are coming undone, and if it dies, all on earth may die with it...
I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm working alone in the lab at night, when the lab gear wakes up and tries to kill me...
I'm a holy man sneaking into a sewerpipe at the beach, to pop anxiety pills in shame. Do they even work?
CAUTION: CHEMICAL CRUTCHES
Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear...
On the street called Old And In The Way, I meet a psychic I crushed on as a kid,
and then, in a hearth, fight the tentacled alien who's been stalking me...
Okinawa in the far future, when the world is run by dogs. Except they worship us, and we aren't there...
The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to...
CAUTION: NUDITY
At the beach, wading with my fellow dreamworker Stephanie.
The waves are getting bigger--are they a hazard, or can we ride them?
The joyful animal-angel I feel myself to be in my happiest dreams.
A sophisticated composition for a sophisticated model. Or at least seasick...
CAUTION: NUDITY, NAUSEA...
In life drawing class, the model built a sort of green island/nest in the sea of grubby students...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
Flame-like sculptures meant to hang on the wall and cup living plants...
A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous!
CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF
by Jenny Badger Sultan, 1999/5/15, 6/12 & 7/14, a painting based on 3 dreams
I'm in the Hypogeum, an ancient Maltese dream-temple. I join some women
staging a ritual; a little girl draped in a web plays the role of an insect...
My sexual orientation shifts arbitrarily, turned on one second, off the next. Who's at the controls?
CAUTION: SEXUAL CONFUSION
I desperately need to pee, but my bladder's full of two kinds of emotional trauma, and each blocks the other!
CAUTION: BATHROOM PSYCHOLOGY
Robert Coles wrote a book on kids' moral sense, but his examples don't tell me what they tell him...
I win a free game of Kick the President. But what if everyone can see your kick-ass Prez but you?
CAUTION: THIS DREAM IS MONITORED BY THE SECRET SERVICE
Illness is such a handy excuse when you need solitude, care, rest, or just time to think... but...
Women rain out of the sky. People shrug "Suicides." I don't believe it--and what if one falls on me?
CAUTION: SEXIST BLINDNESS TO VIOLENCE
I'm a dyke playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Some guys harass us and run into a tunnel. I follow, but...
by Jenny Badger Sultan, 1999/5/15, 6/12 & 7/14, a painting based on 3 dreams
I'm in the Hypogeum, an ancient Maltese dream-temple. I join some women
staging a ritual; a little girl draped in a web plays the role of an insect...
I'm naked, flirting with two cute women. People can see us in our bay window, but I just don't care....
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
So I looked out my window and saw this guy burying a tiny robed woman in a trench in the street...
A man learns to hop between time-branches, but like all transportation, this has epidemiological risks...
I dream normal women don't turn me on--I like the 30,000 little aliens who just landed!
I wake to see an ad about them on a passing bus... and it turns out I'm NOT still dreaming...
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
A huge white ovoid like a tethered cloud hangs over a city street. We enter it and search for the crew...
Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations?
As Mars demands independence from Earth, Jovians enslave us all! Now freedom-fighting is personal...
A girl lies dreaming in the street; no one can wake her. At last I yell
"Face it, she's dead!" But is she? I never try a fairytale kiss...
I kept seeing the image of a creature like someone in a Tove Jansson book...
Lunar terraforming lags behind Mars; a global ice storm hits, like the bad old days. But the future...
A nightmare turns to a sex dream turns to a weird demonstration just how out-of-body a dream can get...
CAUTION: (PUZZLING) SEX
A sculpture of me as the sexy singing beast who lures the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk...
by Wayan; 1999/9/1; pencil mirror-drawing.
Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine?
After all, even the Ein Tongue can't do this...
My guide in India says the Third World's doomed, but a stone dancer in the ruins winks behind his back...
CAUTION: NAKED CARVINGS
I'm a shaggy primitive whose tribe's outgrown our caves. We migrate, and meet two new species of people...
In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...
With our ignorability spell, our team plans to free the angry Hick from the
Submerged Court. But the Coyote Girls can see us! Will this really work?
An insecure girl who looks like my anima is rehearsing a controversial love scene with an alien wolf...
It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines...
I'm autistic; a TV host encourages me and another autistic kid to have sex on the air...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX ON NATIONAL TV; SERIOUS FINGER-POINTING
Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between...
CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
These sketches bare my work process: I multitask, but without planning, in a
flow state. I really do just follow my bliss. Works better for me than logic.
Koko the gorilla has had some terrible setbacks lately... the double amputation, especially...
The gods of our cave-past and star-future fight over us--using us, of course. After I see the toll it's taking on a
bonobo buddy of mine, I decide to bring the war back home, and go gunning for God--BOTH of them...
CAUTION: APES AND EXPLOSIVES DON'T MIX
In drawing class I was supposed to be studying perspective, but I went beyond the box...
Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake...
Why'd Julie write a singles ad with insane, sky-high demands, when she just wants a nice relaxed guy?
I meet a man in a box. A mob wants to attack him. But five white horses defend him! Well, one's really a unicorn. I know each horse is a talent, but only recall one when I wake: clairvoyance...
A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs...
My abstract sculpture just got fishier and fishier, til it grew these big red lips...
As humans settle infospace, will we cheat other species trying to evolve into people?
Are we already doing it? Admiring & documenting creatures we've written off as doomed?
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES; DISTURBING PREMISE
I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
I met a colorblind artist with an amazing grayscale sense. He inspire me to
draw a huge eye full of abstract shapes in gray, trying to see his way...
Cities are fun when you're a bird--all those updrafts and perches and nests with great views...
A ritual in a future society makes me laugh. I tease a futurian, insist it's really an old Miwok rite...
For years the Sea-Wolf enslaved me. He said I had to fight him and win to be free. I'm ready at last...
Brunch, a terrace restaurant, some cute women. I say hi and politely grope them... why do I feel odd?
A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
I don't know if the fox-shepherdess ate all her sheep, or if she herded invisible and quite different things...
I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting
as well as puns) with a playful but scratchy cat...
A burrowing owl invites her friend the wolf over for tea. It sounds very Beatrix Potter, but...
A beautiful herbivore suddenly eats one of its friends! Bloody. Who or what is this warning me about?...
CAUTION: YUCK, MEAT REALLY IS MURDER
I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by...
CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION
Who sculpts landscape? So I tried a crag with a pool in a hollow on its knee, windows like red eyes...
A sculpture of me as the sexy singing beast who lures the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk...
The white road is my life history, told in women: friends, lovers, relatives, ancestors--and one past life...
They were both beauties and look rather feline to me--I'm drawn to feline beauties still, and wonder...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
Friends, and lovers, and some who got away. And the big question mark in the future...
"Go back! Wrong way!" says the sign--not because the past is dead, because it isn't...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
Protestors occupy the Transamerica Pyramid and install a cow as CEO... a Cash Cow?
I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office?
I'm a giant cartoon bird. I had to assassinate a friend--twelve times!
Eleven times I killed him, but I spared him the twelfth. He said...
At the beach, a deaf boy with a strong aura asks "Are you here for the coin?"
He buries horse skeletons in the sand; the bones are carved with symbols...
When girls get their clits cut, even the UN takes notice. But mutilate boy genitals, and... big yawn!
CAUTION: TALK ABOUT SEX AND VIOLENCE--BUT HEY, IT'S ONLY BOYS
Reporters interview my pet rabbit without my permission. Have I neglected her? She says
"Things have been pretty good." I'm relieved, but ask why she never spoke before...
The cake horse resented my taking one slice out of him; but he let me.
No second slice, though! He just laughed at me--through his bad teeth...
I run away. A car nearly hits me and I fall into the lake. But
a kindly catfish drags me to an underwater phone booth...
As a mob of Hollywood stars beats me up, I ask for autographs--and get them.
I sell the autographs to fund a statue of the beating--but with me smiling...
If you can't tell what it is from the thumbnail, cheer up. It's indescribable full-size, too.
I'm in a car with Walt Disney. A blonde comes in out of the rain.
He promises to make her a star, and puts his hands...
CAUTION: NOT GRAPHIC, JUST UGH
His literary afterlife was just six inches of shelf space. But then friends brought more, trucks more, til I slid down hills of paper...
CAUTION: DEATH'S AFTERMATH
As they lower me into my grave, mourners don't throw dirt but--cottage cheese? I toss it
back, starting a huge foodfight. I climb out to join the fun. Only the poor pastor looks lost...
It was Christmas and we needed to buy gifts. But the shopping dragged on
and when at last we went to the register, the sales clerk laughed...
A mind-control drug urges her to strangle her loved ones, but
to beat the curse she busies her fluttering hands with bluegrass banjo...
I'm chased by spaghetti, snared, sprinkled with parmesan.
My hungry classmates loom, and my best friend says...
I'm watching MTV. Laurie Anderson gets inside my remote control. I try to change channels
and she turns my head into an apple. I grope for a potato peeler, and carve a new mouth...
I work in a witness protection program. We hide the Muppet on the bottom
of an empty swimming pool, hand him a long straw, and fill it with...
The poet e.e. cummings drew a book of astral fairytales with watercolors that felt a bit like my dreams...
God issued me a paper bag to go over my head & protect my eyes
when facing him--at first. But as I advanced spiritually, I tore...
I botched President Clinton's taco. And on the way home, I fell in the river.
Luckily, Jesse Jackson happened by and pulled me out, restoring my faith in...
Our neighbors keep dropping by with gifts and favors for our cat.
Why? He'd gained magical powers by amassing 10,000 dead mice...
I was just sitting, minding my own business, when these
golden wedge-birds and a tiny flying white mare divebombed me...
by Daughn Lee and Roswila; 1999 (2000?), a collaborative dream-poem
Alternating stanzas by very different poets, based on
Roswila's dream of bellydancing in the streets...
I'm on stage. I have to sing. They just stare. I try dancing. Stony silence. At last,
a second me leads me offstage, saying "You can only fail so many times"...
I must outrun the rising moon so I don't turn into a wolf and
kill my friends, but only a werewolf is swift enough to...
Who were they? I don't know. But they were doing something powerful on top of that mountain.
My Zen master keeps asking me koans. But every riddle is about insurance
forms. I always reply "I am thirsty." He asks another. It goes on forever...
It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next.
But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?