After an article suggests we roam the multiverse in sleep, I dream of three strange names. Awake, I google them...
I wish I could be as body-free as my neighbor Jenna, hiking nude under the full moon...
First I try to break the sound barrier like my girlfriend. Nope!
Then I fly slowly to her apartment. Nothing flashy, but I make it.
Last, I zoom back to ancient China, where I find a candle-lit shrine dedicated to... me?
Two medieval women poison one another. One dies in my arms; the other may just survive. Why did they...?
CAUTION: MURDERERS
For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly...
I must see a community as a whole, and intuit my way out of a sealed room, and spot details, and join a trio in bed...
CAUTION: NUDITY IN LAST DREAM
Anxious about a big party, I dream of being crowded. But
a cat-centaur in the crowd attains sudden enlightenment...
Struggling to recall a magical dream, I suddenly get a single, simple image. ...
I'm flying around a half-built house when I'm cornered by three
scary archangels in trenchcoats. But they want my help...
I dream of a TV sitcom with passive boytoys, dildo balloons & a relentless laughtrack...
CAUTION: OH, READ THE TITLE
My two moms sell art fabrics made by grayish batwinged sisters whose newest ad is risqué...
CAUTION: ADS WITH NUDE BATS
A voice told me, "Human beings have a spark of the divine"...
A timewarp started to swallow my house. It looked normal outside, but everyone inside was in a trance...
Awkward newlyweds. Not a love match! Can they co-operate to save a woman from the Nazis?...
I'm half-naked at an arty dinner party, talking to a man I really think I ought to recognize... who is he?
CAUTION: TOPLESS JUNGIAN
A bounty hunter stalks me through a jungle, but lucidity turns a potential nightmare to joy...
I meet a flutist I like, but she's busy playing. So I conjure a second her with free time to listen to herself with me...
I'm detective Hercule Poirot, but I'm losing my case and my brain--
because my story isn't by Agatha Christie, it's a knockoff...
CAUTION: PINK DILDO HATS
My friend's ignorant of our local Congressional race. I loathe Pombo
and like his rival McNerney, but can't pronounce his name right...
I dream of a half-pony half-human girl who can't eat either hamburgers or hay. She figures out an appropriate diet...
1: Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse. 2: My oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snobby aunt.
3: I wake in a stranger's bondage fantasy--ugh! 4: Shepherds on the sea-floor watch for gliderwolves...
CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE DREAM
A giant insect chases me around our gym. A girl tells me it's harmless but I'm sure it's a...
Coco Chanel's fashion workers want me to screw Coco's cat,
so she'll stop screwing them financially...
CAUTION: SEX KITTENS
I've been drawing a personification of the World Dream Bank.
Nerdy, but most of your readers are nerds...
I walked into a 19th century home--and family quarrel. Decades passed in seconds; then
the house burned--with me in it. Two years later I learned the house and its history were real...
Diplomacy's failed. To stop the impending Iranian War single-handed,
I hop like a monster flea across Iran to corner the New Shah...
I'm on the border of human territory. Beyond is the land of the unnerving
Telepaths, each one different but every one creepy...
I dream over & over of the same place, time, & woman. We fall in love. Strangely, I'm the one who gets pregnant...
I dream squatters build surreal towers in a city of junk. I wake, go to a movie, and see...
As we cross a scary ledge, my tough survival-guide, always no-nonsense before,
finally willing to consider... intellectualism, dating, ethics... fun?
My loud, spiky, tailed angel of change and potential, and
my calm, skeptical devil of gradualism--a star-nosed mole...
I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, amid tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) cops...
CAUTION: COYOTE SEX
A pigeon with a head like Queen Victoria's keeps fastening onto
my clothing with its beak, and this nagging feels familiar...
A monkey who stole a handgun aims at a troopmate and fires, ignorant of the consequences.
The next evening I hear gunfire for real, and...
On the freeway, my car and I split into quantum possibilities. I steer both entangled cars
till I split again--now I have to steer three cars with just one pair of hands and eyes...
In a world where ice contracts & sinks, birds freeze in winter, thaw in spring. But one swan knows better......
DAY: I find old photos showing my dad ogled my sister, the Lee girls, and teens he met at the beach.
DREAM: Juana Lee wants to fire a rocket launcher--indoors. The house'll burn! But she won't relent...
CAUTION: INCESTUOUS & PEDOPHILIC DAD-VIBES
The dead treasure-hunter's will ordered us, his heirs, to convene in the wood.
Attacked there by a knight in armor, we near-strangers must unite to win our...
I spy on a girl learning magic in a quilted ditch. She lets me join her telekinesis lesson! Can my mind move a balloon?
Then I tour a witch-world where normality's shameful. One kid's not witch or normal--he keeps turning into Donald Duck!
CAUTION: DISNEY = DISABILITY?
How'd that spider, dragon and T. rex get in my soup? I skip lunch.
Dig in the garden, but scaly heads pop out to nip at me. Persistent!
I'm biking over the English Channel. So mild & easy after the Greenland-to-New-York run...
I miss all sorts of cues I'm dreaming, but I ignore my conviction I'm awake and try to fly anyway...
I meet a forgotten goddess--outlived all her cults. Today she passes as a psychic, reads a crystalball...
CAUTION: NUDE CHALK SKETCH
I'm shown pictures of three different magical ways to fly. But the third
shows no actual flight--just someone giving away the magical means...
Businessmen grow snouts or short trunks and their necks stretch.
They drive VW Beetles with the sunroof open. Works in summer, but...
Frida Kahlo's battered sister Cristina dances nude--and gets jailed by the
Office of Homeland Security! Frida protests by painting her in prison...
I'm a big cat lonely in this human city. Wish I had a mate! But as soon as
I take responsibility for an orphaned boy, in walks an older girl...
My friend and I are banana slugs on the forest floor. We wander out into chaparral, and across a bike path...
I dream I meet my headaches! An ascetic yogi who punishes jokers, flirts and cynics for worldliness...
My sister just bought a biocomputer: an enslaved human brain in a box of weeping skin...
I dream over & over of the same place, time, & woman. We fall in love. Strangely, I'm the one who gets pregnant...
This strange girl reminds me "I rode your bike recently but you forgot." She's right! Rode it in an earlier dream...
A witch & I duel with blades of spiral horn. But we both just want
to create an utterly truthful oracle. Can't we find a way not to fight?
A dream of human and wolf people intermarrying provokes both a sculpture and a more wolfish attitude...
The city museum's new levitating sculpture shows a space reef explored by
a floating wolf who needs no spacesuit--vacuum adapted!
SITUATION: I'm in the rainforest, studying the red-throated caracara, a clever, elusive bird...
DREAM: Caracaras show up in Vancouver, speaking fluent English. At LAST I can interview...
As a kid, my nightmares were of Sesame Street characters. In my teens I graduated to
slasher nightmares and recurring lucid dreams. Alcohol trashed my dreams for years, but
now they're not nightmares--just surreal. Hitler wrecks my sex life! What a spoilsport...
CAUTION: (MOSTLY FRUSTRATED) SEX
A booklist (plus a few articles, films & comics) of interest to prodigies and geniuses. Just 100 so far; email suggestions!