I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain...
A voice calls to me by name--but not the name I now bear, evoking memories of another life...
Giant worms put me on trial for wearing a nameless hat, but I like their punishment so I taunt the judge...
In a psychodrama scene, I try to stop a furious guy from hitting an exhibitionist girl. But I'm bleeding...
I swim with my daughter Naomi in a desert pool amid lemon trees. She may be able to help me...
I was downtown when I knew I had to hurry home. I found it full of gas.
As my husband napped, our two-year-old had turned on all the stove jets...
Natalius dreamed that angels whipped him for joining a heretic cult, and woke to find welts on his back...
I'm at the beach, seeing it through English linguistic filters. Or do I? Is there a language under language?
It's not nice to outline things that don't want to have outlines...
A museum sketch of Navaho horses who got me hot--teaching
teenage me that my sexual orientation wasn't (only) human...
Nazis call my simple architectural drawing a social protest, take it at gunpoint,
and toss it in the ovens. The commander mocks me with its ashes...
I challenge my teacher's claim human historical patterns are universal.
She challenges me by dragging us both back to the Ice Age and...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Nebuchadnezzar dreams a voice from heaven commands a great tree be cut;
Daniel interprets this as a prediction the king will go mad for 7 years...
I wished I could kiss my son farewell. That week, Ethel called. "I dreamed Ned kissed you, not me!
I was hurt. He laughed like anything and kissed me too..."
For a week the same dream-figures and settings have been recurring:
shapeshifters and sea monsters. What are they hiding? Or guarding...
I'm at a Neolithic art show. A Stone Age critic says "Viewers struggle to interpret signs as the signified."
I think they're just baffled how those animals can be stuck on a cave wall yet still be running around...
I climb a crumbling slope to a cliff with a Himalayan view; I slip, and no one lifts a hand to help as I...
Vespasian dreamed he and his family would rise only when Emperor Nero lost his teeth.
The next day, a surgeon happened to show Vespasian a tooth he'd just extracted from...
Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?
Two friends send energy through me, transforming me. Now that
my legs are detachable, I can sit comfortably on my eggs...
At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
At our commune's new house, pandemonium breaks out when
our matriarch meets a spook. Can we live together in peace?
ESP is like having neutrino detectors for eyes: what radiates from people's cores blinds you to their surfaces...
DREAM: on a Nevada ranch, I'm a were-horse into mares--when I'm human. And when I'm a stallion?
Why, cowgirls! Always date the wrong species--just to be sure of rejection.
NEXT DAY: I let a class of commercial artists critique my dream-comix. Just to be sure of rejection...
CAUTION: FURRYPHILIA, SELF-SABOTAGE
My best friend and I qualify for new bodies. The new me is taller, but poor Ken may take years adjusting to his new...
Someone said "There's been a murder in the Victoria Hotel, and the murderer slept in your house." Three weeks later...
I dream the new Dalai Lama's a kind woman who gives me startling health advice
AND shows me how to fly. The next day...
The sea pours in the house, but Lynette swims and floats in the sun. When the flood ebbs, the
land blooms into paradise. An oracle says "Your mom will die, but you'll help her through it"...
CAUTION: SUBLIMINALLY SENSING ILLNESS, OR PSYCHIC?
My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste;
then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels...
Nuclear holocaust. Outside, an ashen waste. I decide to cut my wrists in the tub. But a corpse already fills it.
A man drives up. A voice commands "Make a child!" I protest--the world's gone--but the voice says...
My heart began beating like a sledge hammer. I couldn't imagine what was happening, and got frightened...
Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
I am given a gift of "Nibbling Fruits" which only I may eat--because I've been feeding everyone but me...
I met Nic as he steppd out of the elevator. We were both spooked. Nic asked if I believed in
mermaids and unicorns. I said “yes.” I asked Nic if he believed in dreamers, and after a pause...
A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras...
CAUTION: IDEAS
My friend Nic vows to paint two pictures a day, and, impossibly, does.
Meanwhile, I'm blocked. Can she show me how to get unstuck?
At a party, Nietzsche told a young woman "my hand was transparent as glass;
and a fat toad sat on my hand. I felt compelled to swallow it, and did..."
CAUTION: CREEPY DREAM, CREEPY FOLLOW-UP
My sister Miriel asks me to ask my dreams if it's safe for her to get cataracts removed.
I find myself in her body, biking at night--near-blind. Surgery has risks, but this is riskier!
A joyous day with a strange woman who seems not to be his wife, until he touches her hand and knows...
My friend Catherine dreamed she was a flying mare with golden hooves. But in real life, she lost them...
I dreamed I was a feral mare: gentle, affectionate, sensual, but gone wild, wary of being tamed again...
At a party in Shanghai, I overheard a fellow RAF officer say he dreamt that my flight to Tokyo
would crash. I didn't worry much, since he'd seen seven passengers, and my flight next morning
did not... until three last-minute passengers came on board! The plane iced up, and crashed...
I don't mind regular dreams. But when I dream a thousand dreams simultaneously,
I get overwhelmed--drowning in wonders. Is my brain doing this, or is it a message?
Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus...
CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS
Every night the same nightmare--the creatures take flight again, and I wake shaking...
My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers?
A dream of body parts--maybe, impossibly, alive--hung up like drying laundry. Von Trotta inserted it in a film
script to foreshadow a suicide, but seems deaf to any personal warning--as if it's not her dream at all...
A woman unreachable, in dream, drowning in the bed, fish-gasping, scissoring, while her man oblivious...
On my side of the fence, Austrian winter--gray skies, snow. On the other, warm sun, and a frighteningly beautiful
German woman. She invites me over the border, to join her--and the terrified people being dragged off in carts to...
CAUTION: HOLOCAUST HINTS
Ow! My body parts grow & shrink... A mad orchestra leader pulverizes me for nonconformity...
The Brady Bunch crams siblings into a waterpipe one by one. I'm next! My bones crunch...
I'm blindfolded, perched on a miles-high needle piercing my big toe. Blood drips down...
CAUTION: GLEEFULLY GROSS
(plus a 2018/8/31 dream by Wayan provoked by Panter's dream art)
Rather than a dream narrative, this is a tour through Gary's common dreamscapes--
forgotten places, empty streets. Or ones you wish were empty...
I'm in a basement, forced to enact a ritual where I must mate with, then FEED on, a flayed creature...
I wake shaken, open a random book--and it describes the ancient Celtic rites of Epona...
CAUTION: BESTIALITY, MATE-DEVOURING
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
While rehearsing our circus act I mentally saw Nina's ladder breaking loose.
Next day, a supporting ring snapped. Being forewarned, I pulled hard...
Like a lot of playful beasts, I like a friendly nip in the evening...
1: I sketch two deer-girls making videos. 2: I pull a man's nose off, and milk the scene for drama before...
3: My old boss is convicted of murder! 4: I wake and two friends interpret #3 as "Overwork is killing you..."
I wake again. My dream-notebook's blank. No friends here; their interpretation was a dream too....
CAUTION: NUDE DEER
DREAM: a man tries to break into my house. I call for help; the operator says "Oh, that's Nisrock."
DAYS LATER: I open a book on the unconscious. It says Nisrock was a Babylonian god of dreams...
CAUTION: BAD MYTHOGRAPHY
DREAM: I'm in the White House. Nixon blows his nose on the curtains! I think "despite his crudity, he reached out to China."
DAY: my wife Ann has a cold--she's Nixon! The dream concedes she has private flaws, but she's pioneered dream research...
A dream girl with a giant ski-jump nose turns out to be less symbolic than expected...
After a class in nonverbal communication, I meet
Richard Nixon under embarrassing circumstances...
My first memory is of being a wild horse, and waking up to find I was now a human child.
Franz Marc's "Blue Rider" paintings felt like my dreams; but as I learned of his life...
My therapist has no fingers. A fingerless man intrudes on my session, and they use up my hour talking...
I'm in Santa Cruz. Low on gas, but the pumps died. Hwy 17, the route home, is blocked. Drive back roads on fumes...
Next day: a friend's in Santa Cruz. The power goes out, pumps don't work, 17's blocked. He drives back roads...
I dreamed a black mare was howling "Nohor!" At first I thought she meant "I'm not just a horse", but...
CAUTION: SEXUAL ISSUES
I'm in San Francisco trying to throw Sauron's Ring into the Cracks of San Andreas.
But a sexy sorcerer steals my sense of I! How can you act without a self?
No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...
My new bedroom has huge windows, but no blinds. I pin up bedsheets for now--flimsy.
A girl walking by peers in. Wait--we're 50' up! She's in my room--and transclucent.
I yell "WHO ARE YOU?" She looks shocked I can see her, says "No one really" and fades...
I always thought learning no one's out to get me would be a
good thing. But No One turns out to be a deadly opponent...
I want to catch a crescent moon home--our transit system's been buying up
old moons and running them across town--but tourists reserved all the seats...
I don't love my husband, so I'm stranded in the hotel between life & death, from which...
Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations?
Two boys dream robed figures climb in the window to cut their hair--and find, awake, someone has. While Pliny...
After asking "Am I ready to say yes to someone new?" I dreamed I met my old love...
Inspired by Shaun Tan, I fill a black-paged photo album with 36 improv paintings.
They become a tour of my dreamworld, led by my anima Silky, a literal nightmare...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, WEIRD DREAM IDEAS
I met two transparent spooks who insist "We're not ghosts! We were never human."
I'm sure they're wrong; they've just forgotten. But I phone a witch, who confirms...
The world was ending. Volcanoes, floods. Refugees trudged by in the mud, carrying their belongings
on their backs. I think I better get dressed to go. But I can't find anything appropriate to wear...
I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in...
CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
Down at the tideline, a man dressed in seaweed disproves John Donne's adage...
A vast galactic fleet hovers around Earth, demanding Rain. Whaaat?
I fight an alien leader, and find out what their long drought has been...
CAUTION: UFO SEX
An orange tiger with wolf ears jumped on me. I was surprised but not scared, as if it were just a big dog.
The next day, shopping, my daughter thrust an orange wolf-eared hand-puppet in my face, jaws open...
I wander New York City, a homeless ageless child, unnoticed--unless I climb stairs. Then people panic--see a huge cat!
But today I meet a crew lugging big paintings, who seem blind to cat or child. I think they're art thieves, mid-heist...
CAUTION: SHAMANIC INTERPRETATION
After an impatient bookseller puts me down, I dream I'm licking a girl who nothing pleases...
All day I expected a terrible scream, but had no idea why until I heard it. A woman in flames came out of her house...
CAUTION: GRUESOME DEATH
What if your mind doesn't think it's yours? What if it's not so sure you're even a person?
I dream I don't love my girlfriend, I just confuse non-abusive treatment with love....
My sister & I swim round a weirdly shrunken Pacific. Near Fiji, we blunder too close to the drain...
I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others?
In a grassy depression, a small animal is thrashing. Death-throes? No. Calisthenics!
But not under the animal's control. Someone's testing...
On New Year's Eve, I dream my college no longer welcomes me.
New Year's Day, I wake to find it's true...
I visited my friend Chris Wayan's workshop and found him building
a dance troupe of joyfully obscene centaurs out of Barbie dolls...
In my dream I walk through golden glowing woods; I wake to a soggy London November...
It's hard being even mildly multiple. Here three of my least compatible personalities line up and...
At the beach I dive into deep water to save my drowning friend Kathy, and find it’s not so clear who’s who...
My kid and I have mere nubbins where our fingers should be,
but I realize it's a dream--I can grow fingers or absorb them
Erica dreams that during a protest she's caught in a radioactive flood...
Michael dreams a nuclear forcefield makes his fingertips explode and congeal into weird knobs...
Joanne dreams she meets nuclear mutants with curling black nails great for peeling potatoes...
Scott dreams the world goes silent and white, bleaching out. His hands dissolve...
I dream my theatre friends are particles dancing inside an atomic nucleus--
particles that reveal their character, motivations and power. And I'm one too...
I'm a were-crane in a flock fighting the dreaded Human Flu, setting off sterilizing nukes. But
birds aren't great with explosives; I end up hiding from a flash behind Stonehenge megaliths...
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
My lover's half-mechanical cunt wakes fully--a first. But what inspired my dream wasn't a sexual first...
CAUTION: SEXUAL SYMBOLISM
Mom gave me cookies for my three-year solo spaceflight. Special cookies for both ends of me...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BAD SEX ADVICE
After reading a manga and gorging on sushi, I dream a mob of little ninjas
dressed as catgirls pile on me, begging to be petted. Excitement, guilt...
CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, NON-FREUDIAN INTERPRETATION
I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and...
CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON
I go lucid and drive my bed to the Nevada desert where I see my next million years. And so far, it's been true...
Touring an underground maze, I meet a woman I like. But her brother bristles.
Then, from a height, I see the ventilation pits of the labyrinth laid out like a map.
The Japanese invade! Hide in the jungle. Women in rags butcher centipedes & mice...
CAUTION: UNHAPPY MEALS; OVER-JUNGIANISM
I dream we canoe down a river. You say it's barren because this was once the ocean's floor. You're
protective but not longing. I wake on a beach, puzzled why I still feel for you a year later...
I'm a stratospheric bat who finds a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism?
Or a Hindu blessing? Neither! It's an Octopian frisbee. I return it...
In an Oakland literary salon (no, not an oxymoron) I'm supposed to
write an ode. But it's so hot, and I have surreal dreams to sketch...
Keats met two winged lovers nesting in the woods: Eros and Psyche, the last Olympians, worshipless...
Softly snows the spam upon my lonely brain, quilting me in flounderdrifts. Shovel it again...
A man's stalking me and my friends. We try to escape but a circus is in the way.
My friends shrink to babies, so I pop them in a stroller and flee over steep hills,
bouncing down stone stairs! "OW!" the babies howl! Hey... why do I feel deja vu?
CAUTION: INTERPRETATION INSULTS BOTH RUSSIA AND NATO
DREAM: my bedroom clock's late by an hour. Must have been a power failure. I'll be late for that play...
AWAKE: my bedroom clock was right last evening, but now it's late by an hour. Outage! I'll be late for...
CAUTION: SUBLIMINAL OR E.S.P.?
I'm biking over the English Channel. So mild & easy after the Greenland-to-New-York run...
I'm a lonely bird flying in a glass office. Seeking friends, seeing reflections, I fly into windows.
Ow! There's hope of escape only where no false friend beckons...
I dream I'm jamming with a girl in red--she sings a line, I echo or challenge it, she sings another. Fun! Who is she?
I wake realizing the band I saw before sleep, Ogie Yosha, had that back-and-forth style... but no female singer. Sigh!
A friend calls. "Didn't you love the lead singer, isn't she cute?" Whaaat? She wasn't there! Until... later that night.
CAUTION: POSSIBLE E.S.P.
I rise in animal form, and fly to a world as coherent as this one, guided by a greenhaired girl...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I see two Ohlone women around 1900, starving, naked, despised, their land stolen--and still way happier than...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm a spy tracking down coinlike bombs. Fighting a double agent, I fall in love!
So I suggest her gang rob golden-parachute bankers...
CAUTION: POOLSIDE SEX
DREAMS: I'm arguing with a worker on our oil rig when a huge piece of steel falls, crushing me instantly.
MONTHS LATER: that very worker gets in an argument with me. I recall my dreams, step back, and...
A model of a moon, half-Europa, half-Mars, with (intelligent?) life in seas under a skin of ice...
I hung the dream-net over my bed. It worked. A blue-winged man with a leg of silver came to me,
drummed, danced, offered to teach me secrets. Awake, I found a blue feather caught in that net...
I meet the original Adam. He complains Eve neglects him, but he hopes to meet one of his cleverer descendants...
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...
The Goddess gave birth in my workplace. Her fever-dreams become real around us...
CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE, LIBRARIANS' ORGY
A Hollywood sex goddess confronts the Ingenue who's supplanting her. Just how far will she go?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
Malaria nearly kills a talented young artist; he must retrain from scratch. Why? Well, he's not exactly himself...
The older sorceress I'm in bed with plans to marry me off to a younger woman, but I distract her with my tongue...
CAUTION: BEDROOM HUMOR
On terraformed Mars, we set out to climb Mt Olympus without
oxygen masks. The first miles are OK, but the air thins until...
CAUTION: ANTICIPATED DEATH?
An alien beach scene--as seen through eyes that see bodies' energy fields more than surface forms...
In her kitchen she offers me shortcake. She's short herself, for she gives away all
to everyone--only her bodiless head is left...
The night after my 29th birthday, I dream my youth is literally leaving me. I'm at a party
full of kids and teens; I can't get anyone's name, and they slip away leaving me alone...
The first two dragons numb my pain. I demand it back, and soon regret my haste.
But the third dragon I seduce, for I'm a dragon now...
A gengineered singer (born a cow, became a horse, then a shark, now a sexy Mare Chanteuse)
solves a mystery that stumped even Mr. Spock. Next day, I see a film--a mystery solved by a...
A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment...
CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
As I bike home at night, strange doings--a rat is sacrificed; gemstones delivered;
an astronaut shows glowing alien objects; a second rat becomes a... firefighter?
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...
Sexy dreams of Chinese archeology, authorized by the fairies, make me face that my family abused me...
You'd think his Christmas wish would be "a new eye"; well it was, in a way...
My day life as an artist and explorer of the San Francisco underground scene
gets regularly commented on by my dreamlife...
CAUTION: SEX, BONDAGE
A sociologist exposes the smugness of Britain's 1%, but the writer's denial of any innate differences
can be just as pernicious as elitism...
CAUTION: EGALITARIANISM ON TRIAL
Humans and elves like me can get along, but not oni (Japanese demons)--they'll hurt anyone for gain...
CAUTION: POLITICAL BITTERNESS
My love and I steal the only onion in the world! To make our getaway we sail off the edge of the earth...
Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message...
The poet e.e. cummings drew a book of astral fairytales with watercolors that felt a bit like my dreams...
I'm car-buying. My friend has an Opel, but it's sluggish AND a gas hog. How can a car be both? Then...
I notice a jar of opals that my grandpa gave me has grown dull with algae! Sheesh, more opals gone bad...
I wake and head to work. But at a bottleneck, I'm blocked by this loud group talking on and on about...
An open microphone in a San Francisco cafe. Others tell stories, sing songs, chant poems. But I
want to tell a shamanic dream! To an audience sure that dreams are dull, incoherent, meaningless...
I salvaged a door. When I painted it, a fox-woman wanted to open it and get out...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
The cover of a collection of 11.5 dream-tales in glorious detailed Web-unfriendly black and white....
Why don't I push for more art shows? I asked how I feel at shows of my own work, and this came out...
I'm a therapist with a client diagnosed paranoid--but are his doctors racist? He's not just black, but scaly...
When I was battered, I briefly lived on the streets. What struck me was how fragile most of us were...
CAUTION: BRIEF BUT GRIM
At the beach, wading with my fellow dreamworker Stephanie.
The waves are getting bigger--are they a hazard, or can we ride them?
DAY: I see Avatar: the Way of Water. Two films in one: Blue Lagoon alternates with Mad Max...
DREAM: As an oracle, I have to go topless so the magic mini-ravens can perch on my nipples...
CAUTION: BRR, OW!, BREASTS, and SNIPING AT JAMES CAMERON
I dream Public Broadcasting System actors rebel on camera and have an oral-sex orgy!
Next day, NPR has a call-in show, and suddenly they're arguing in favor of oral sex...
CAUTION: SEXUAL POLITICS
A coy, giggling giant orange bounces onto a man's bed, trying to seduce him, and...
I held the strangest and most entrancing object I have ever seen: the very citadel of life itself!...
I'm trying to get a moontan when my mom appears.
My astral body starts orbiting her like a moon. Uh-oh...
A wild flying dream lands me among feral children fighting to live in a glass conservatory of lost flowers...
I show an Ohio friend the latest California sport. But
we haven't quite worked out how to land just yet...
I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite.
But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal by Infrastructure...
I'm in a movie version of prehistoric Baja California, mining nuggets that howl,
when pterodactyl-worshiping pirates glide in trying to snatch our ore...
Under the surface of my comics panels, a tiny horde is having an orgy. I can't
publish this, it's too embarrassing! Wait a minute. That one is me...
CAUTION: MICRO-ORGY
While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love
with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another...
CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
Krishna, Orpheus, Kokopelli...why are the mythic musicians all guys? Where's Orphea's head?
I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we...
Osento is a bath house that my friends all love. But women only. So I dream I change sex just to...
CAUTION: NUDITY, GRATUITOUS HAPPINESS
The moon rises from my friend's body, and sinks into mine. Then
a great tree grows from my body, covering much of the world...
CAUTION: ORAL TRADITION AT BEST
Age 7 to 11, I often dreamt I inhabited a consistent geography of mountains & deserts. I was an adult of dark
complexion in non-European clothes; I spoke a tongue (and read a script) that I didn't recognize when awake...
CAUTION: ADULT DRUG EXPERIMENT; PAST LIFE MEMORY?
A kinky seduction slips into something more uncomfortable: the Qabbalah? Or possibly leather...
CAUTION: EROTICA OR ESOTERICA?
A writer I haven't seen for 40 years gives me a drink, but all I want is to find my mom in The Other Room...
The engine pinned a young man under it. A crowd gathered, but no one saw the girl on the far side of the tracks...
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore...
A suspicious exobiologist warns me that otter from Titan may not be the amiable, nerdy celebrity it seems. But...
I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed...
CAUTION: SEX
A doomed, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or... did I?
CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE (MARSUPIAL/NON-GORY)
I DREAM I'm in the mansion of my favorite film producer, Otto Preminger. Then I learn it's my home!
I WAKE realizing I'm the producer of my dreams--not some impersonal, instinctive Unconscious...
My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why?
CAUTION: DREAM PUN, NUDE MARES
The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later,
songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE
As new political outrages flow forth, I feel like a horse wary of a sweet-talking human, and I think...
I force the governor's chief aide to tour the new prisons for us artists, fags, and niggers.
He's appalled--but how many more noses must I rub in the governor's racism?
CAUTION: THE N-WORD
Our Lady of the Yoyo plays with our yin-yang world, trying to keep the spin going on each bounce...
On a trip, lonely, I induced dreams about my fiancé Steve, hoping I could visit him
out-of-body. On the one night I succeeded, he abruptly felt my presence while awake...
I rise out of my body, find I'm invulnerable, visit the moon, with its volcanic rocks, re-enter
my body, "wake" and write the dream--only to wake again and find all my notes gone!...
I'm silent in class; let our new, inexperienced teacher fumble. At last
I'm forced to answer, and reveal I'm ahead of her. She doesn't take it well...
CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE SOCIAL DILEMMAS
I'm trapped in the scary show The Outer Limits. A man scolds me: "You think not, but you MATTER!"
I try suicide rather than face my worth! But my dream fences off the river, forcing me to confront...
CAUTION: SUICIDE ATTEMPT
I'm a girl in a Catholic school. But a magazine and my too-small bed combine to change my life...
CAUTION: MASTURBATION, QUEER-POSITIVE, CHRISTIAN-NEGATIVE
Towers, before he was killed, argued Terman was wrong: geniuses are often isolated and maladjusted...
CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
Ann had inflamed ovaries and faced surgery. She asked her dreams for a second opinion. She dreamt of voices and images saying
"there's plenty of time for all this." She bathed peacefully in a river, meditated, gave easy birth to an infant, climbed a ladder to
her law degree. She woke cured. Her next doctor said "you must've been misdiagnosed; you just thought you were in pain."
CAUTION: SEXIST GASLIGHTING
We're spirits over a volcanic fountain of energy. And some of us prepare to ride the current up to...
CAUTION: ASSUMES MYSTICAL LITERACY
Now the Evil Empire's dead. We're all safe, safe at last. And all the bombs are gone... right?
Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon
on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours...
Mom's vanished, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us
alone now. But he's barely coping. And he's me...
An alien woman makes a mess of our economy, ecology, world--but insists she wants to be my friend...
A giant luminous guardian owl baffles and intimidates me
but after seeing a play next evening, it makes more sense...
DREAM: I'm hiking in a local preserve when a jay with a handgun shoots an owl...
A MONTH LATER: the first owls to resettle my urban county nest in a nearby park...
A MONTH LATER: they're dead. One was shot; its mate died of grief.
I stumble into a bar where the TV stars from my childhood are
drunkenly arguing metaphysics--Howdy Doody, Beany & Cecil, Flipper...
My dreams mix sex with warmth, grief, even silliness, but what's with the owls? Bewildering...
CAUTION: WEIRD ORGY
I'm pulling a cart in the woods. At a bridge over a canyon, owls urge me to climb down into the misty abyss, but...
At the time I didn't even notice the pun...
West of Seattle, near Lake Ozette, a mudslide buried a whole Makah Indian village centuries ago...