Jung and a little brown man shoot down Siegfried the German Hero, riding his chariot of bones. Wait... his what?
CAUTION: GRIM
I dreamt a grey filly won the Derby. My friend, a fan, said no fillies were racing this year; but he forgot one named...
Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry...
Wayan dreams a jet crashes in dead silence. Meanwhile Vera dreams of being ON a jet that...
I'm a trade rep for Terra, on a new world. But an old rival, a rep from another world, arrives, and...
An ambitious freestanding lifesize sculpture of a feline centaur girl
with working joints and muscles so she's posable. And huggable. And...
CAUTION: NUDE CATTAUR
My girlfriend, a lifesize doll in the shape of a feline centaur, gradually
comes alive, walking around on her own and flirting with me...
CAUTION: NUDE CAT-TAUR
Ours is a mixed-race family, and my sister takes after the horse side. No hands, but can she sing!...
After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness...
My anima Silky plans to kill a man who hurt her. Instead, we make them re-enact it, with variations...
I meet my anima downtown. She looks great, but admits she's still healing sexually--
"I over-romanticize." "Oh? Who or what?" "National Geographic!" An odd fixation.
Then I wake & go to work; in a staff-room magazine I find a strange cartoon...
I'm a kid in a classroom someone's trashed. Our teacher goes ballistic. But was the gypsy girl framed?
My anima the singing horse was encouraging a shy werewolf boy to give it a try...
CAUTION: UNCLAD HORSE CHANTEUSE
My anima, a pegasus mare, leaps out of a girl's book and teaches us to fly up to an astral land...
CAUTION: FLIRTY PEGASUS
My anima, a black mare, is upside down, hanging on the ceiling! Rears downward.
And she's changed sex! Not a mare today, a stallion! A gay, humanophilic stallion...
CAUTION: VERY QUEER FLIRTATION
I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky the
talking black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats...
A love poem to the black mare I keep meeting in my dreams, who finally married me...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last...
An astral travel advisory. You'll fly better, if (before you leave your body) you...
A sketch of a whistling punk girl somehow mutated into a fairy holding a songbird of sorts...
CAUTION: "THE BIRD"
From a crowd in a gym, I sing to my wolflike alien friend. But she can't recognize my voice--
too convincing a falsetto! I slide deeper, but once she heard a girl, she can't imagine...
Day: an exhibitionist teen uses sex to sell charity cupcakes, while her mom glares...
Dream: I date the exhibitionist, but her dad imposes weird trials, as I sing for courage...
My sisters roll a single die. Miriel can influence it telekinetically,
but can't shoot very well. Since she hasn't grown opposable thumbs yet...
Black holes can be scary enough outside you, but what if you have dormant ones inside you?
My friend sleeps with an alien. He's ugly, but I don't care. What bothers me is, he eats bits of himself...
CAUTION: SEX, RECREATIONAL CANNIBALISM, PROSTITUTION, THE KITCHEN SINK
First, suck up 90% of Earth's seas. Now wait 90,000 years for life to adapt. The continents are now
Tibetan plateaus above steamy new Deeps, ruled by giant parrots, ravens and otters...
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
Exploring a planet in the Sirius system, we raft down a river. A local guy warns
there's a waterfall ahead, but my raftmates won't believe him! Over we go. Ow...
Next day, glad my druggy housemate's leaving, I learn of a big letdown...
The glow seemed to come from within her, but I knew it flowed from my own breast. Her eyes fluttered...
We play with worlds for balls, and gravity wells for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out.
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...
In psychodrama, my sister/lover did a happy childhood scene--till the actors took her
down a trap door into the underworld. And I knew I'd have to go down after her...
(a poem answering Wallace Stevens's 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
As the beast in question (and recalling the fable Six Blind Men and the Elephant)
I don't mind letting six half-blind humans have their say--as long as I get my own...
CAUTION: UNICORNS
1: A flooded bathroom becomes 2: a glass water-piano; 3: my friend strips in a restaurant, so
4: they serve me gutted dog. 5: Dolls teach prostitution, as 6: a rhino rubs up to an elephant-bear...
(by a California model, pre-1961, and by a Texas maid, 1945; two predictive dreams compared)
Predictive dreams rarely hint how far they've peered ahead; they just place you in their foreseen future...
Just a lazy, sexy image that came to me, of floating in air like a pinwheel, licking and being licked...
CAUTION: SEX
Big Blonde and her officemates don't believe in flight; but the dragonfly-girl I meet hatched in mid-air...
My girlfriend and I can fly, but detectives shadow us. How to lose them? By sticking to the beach and...
CAUTION: BIZARRE CREATURES, FRANK LANGUAGE
A baby's own skin secedes, forming a snake. It prepares to eat the skinned baby. Shall I intervene?
A huge rubbery mass of skin complains I made it sick. I get tired of its whining, and...
I get assigned a life as a skink. Eat flies, mate, do my lizard pushups, but
behind my daily mind, my soul gets so bored it finally flies out...
One night I meet a giant talking skunk and its pup, who asks how to walk to Thailand...
When I see two scary men on the trail, naturally, I swallow my skunk! I really don't recommend...
After I (sort of) foil some elf-burglars, a friendly elfwoman shows me
a black caterpillar, then the rare white-striped skunkerpillar...
My neurotic sister and I both lust for a girl named Sky; then I flee a gang of popes and lamas and mullahs...
My dead father said a trusted servant was stealing our goods through an unlocked skylight. This proved true...
While watching two rooftop actors (one a chicken) I noticed the icebergs in the sky were melting at last...
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
Business solved the problem of cheap foreign labor: slavery's legal again. So our firm buys cheap losers...
At boot camp for sex slaves, a rapist makes me a surprisingly tempting offer. But it's really not about sex, is it?
CAUTION: ORAL SEX, OUTRAGEOUS COMPARISON
As Mars demands independence from Earth, Jovians enslave us all! Now freedom-fighting is personal...
Wayan: A sleazy brother calls the cops, blaming us for a fire he set...
Cecy: A sleazy brother calls in a fire while not even trying to put it out...
Sledding at night, I approached the speed of light, and the stars turned colors I'd never seen...
I dream I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters. Wait a minute...
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'm at a physics conference. A new force has been discovered that may just
allow travel faster than light. Strange, how'd the Vikings know?...
I cross San Francisco on public transit--a network of children's slides. One leads into...
A wormhole full of aliens, where a goofy-haired reporter interviews a hacker...
An amber stream recurring in my dreams led me to meet a huge, strange being, Slithy...
Infected glass-cuts scar the vegan alligators in the park. As part of a cleanup, I'm told to EAT one...
A man who wants to love and respect all life has unwanted kitchen guests: a wave of slugs...
My friend and I are banana slugs on the forest floor. We wander out into chaparral, and across a bike path...
Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists, then a huge impossible fruit...
CAUTION: NUDE SCIENTISTS
After Shaw's Arms and the Man eclipsed my own play The Land of Heart's Desire, I dreamt I was haunted by...
I'm a girl in the 1960s, but not a native--a time-traveler. I'm smoking with friends (not necessarily
tobacco)--but I have this strange sense smoking may lead to serious danger. I wake, get invited
to the film Terms of Endearment, and watch Shirley Maclaine and Debra Winger enact my dream...
A cigar-smoking tyrannosaur moves into our neighborhood,
upsetting us bluebirds and vampire bats. So we...
I'm a snake being hunted by the FBI. I know English, but I can only hiss.
So I need to find an indirect way to show I'm peaceable...
I tried to be like my classmates--use tools, control what I made. But I couldn't. It came alive, and...
Just a couple of soulmate snakes, entwined so totally I envied them...
I am given a dehydrated package of dried snake to insert in my vagina. Inside it will unfold and come to life...
CAUTION: KIDS, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
In a desert, I find a tree with red purselike pods. But they all seem empty,
and I know they should each contain a vivid yellow snake...
As I recalled what I'd dreamed the night before, a snake, I looked down and saw my foot was poised to come down on...
A woman up a tree has white flaky stuff camouflaging her.
It cracks and peels like snakeskin. What tree is this, exactly?
Miriel dreams of a green snake under her bed. Meanwhile her brother
Wayan dreams of a green poisonous snake under his bed...
Two snakes fight as centipedes emerge from under rocks. I tell my friend. Next day her co-worker tells her the same...
I'm a werewolf-girl in love with a gender-dysphoric weredragon in love with
a man who's very, very patient with all our crazy shiftiness...
CAUTION: NUDITY (SKIN, FUR and SCALE), SHIFTY PEOPLE (BI, WERE and QUEER)
Samuel Pepys dreamt of kidneystones, pee, come, & snot--or did he? Thomas Macauley dreams his niece confesses...
Lost in the snow, I must give my baby to a stranger or let my dad put him in a box, safe, forever...
I dream of snowdrifts too deep to get back home, even though...
I'm a peace terrorist trapped in Squaw Valley, herded like a mare by a huge stallion made of snow...
And then the dream shifts. I blurt out the truth behind our idiotic waking world! And wake believing it...
CAUTION: MERMAID AND HORSE NUDITY
My sexual orientation shifts arbitrarily, turned on one second, off the next. Who's at the controls?
CAUTION: SEXUAL CONFUSION
I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful...
An art critic asks me what I think of a sexually explicit nude, and I
find myself blurting nearly the opposite of my conscious opinion...
CAUTION: NUDE SKETCH
In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...
I dream I'm suicidal; but I'm saved when I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern,
from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but the challenges slowly get more spiritual.
NEXT DAY: I learn what my shaman-friend Dee just dreamed. And now I'm unsure whose dream this is...
CAUTION: IDEAS
The night before he met his greatest student, Plato, Socrates dreamed he nursed a baby swan who grew...
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole...
Guards in a museum confiscate my goofy purple-warted shoes, then lose them!
I fuss till they find them. For it's vital to retrieve my, uh, soles.
I dream peaceful Rebecca Solnit turns into violent Valerie Solanis. Her excuse is, she was kidnapped and raped--
now she only trusts dogs. I mean, sexually, too... The dream warns that furries like me may relate to animals
better, due to abuse by humans. If so, I've got more therapy to do..
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES (text only; no abuse images)
A demigoddess and a wizard meddle with humans. But do even THEY know what they're assembling?
Millay, suffering from nightmares, decides to speak from Nightmare's point of view...
Numb, sunk in a trance, I only woke when I broke through a wall to light and magical birdsong...
A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream...
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain...
The future. Humanity's trapped--no energy. Because aliens looted our world before we evolved! Now...
I discover a Sorting Hat, as in Harry Potter--and it moves in with us. Our cat crawls in and plays peekaboo.
She becomes a teenager eager to get drunk at Thanksgiving--like every adult in her life. But she's not
puking drunk like them, so she must be OK! Just as I think I am--I only overwork to exhaustion.
CAUTION: DRUNK TEEN CAT, SEVERELY ALCOHOLIC ADULTS
Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself...
I'm a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging
our guru, a Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual "contamination"...
MY SOUL RESTORED: To hide me as I grew up, someone transplanted a shard of redwood-soul
into me, and part of my soul into the tree! But now I'm grown...
RED ROBE OF INITIATION: I came to play music, but I'm dragged to the magic-school portal & draped in...
CAUTION: MYSTICISM
I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I worry--the human population boom
means experienced souls are scarce. Are most folks you meet really dogs, cats... rats?
CAUTION: MYSTIC ELITISM
As I reread decades of dreams, I see Jung was right: even in crisis-times, soul-work goes calmly on...
Drawn on a trip to the Southwest as a kid. Felt like I'd lived there in a past life. Or I would in a future life...
I'm a kid again, gawking at the Space Needle. But a woman stands before it, who no one else can see:
CAUTION: NUDITY, A SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE
I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge,
while an Anglo rants at me about the Space Race...
I wake to find I have two penises, one connected, one free-floating! How do its sensations reach my brain?
CAUTION: WANDERING WEENIES!
A voice told me, "Human beings have a spark of the divine"...
I dreamt a sparrowhawk perched on my shoulder. Next day a friend was given a stuffed sparrowhawk. He...
by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2002/1/19, a dream-painting of a dream about dream-painting!
I'm teaching an art class full of strange masklike beings. We debate art
as spontaneous process, versus art as planned product...
A dead fern in my backyard starts sending me messages in some strange language...
I dreamed of speckled eggs, Caribbean drug traffickers and of
almost drowning near a sinking boat...
In a creepy castle on the Rhine, whenever I'm near three women, they blur
into one. A powerful spell! Now where have I seen this effect...?
CAUTION: DISSES PATRIARCHAL RELIGIONS
Jung walked against stiff wind and fog, sheltering a tiny light, generating a huge eerie shadow--his other self!
He concluded this was his life-task--to nurture his spark of awareness & rationality in the dark. But...
In hindsight his dream models four key Jungian ideas: Self, Ego, Shadow and Unconscious--at age 18!
CAUTION: REJECTS JUNG'S OWN DREAM INTERPRETATION!
My family moves into a damp basement. My dad just sneers at the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..."
A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now...
I'm a half-sphinx--human dad, sphinx mom--stuck in human form so far.
Will I ever learn to shift? I practice--sculpt my elegant feline future self...
CAUTION: SPHINX NUDITY
Trying to sculpt a dream-figure who's acting blatantly sexual
teaches me it's as hard to show lust as supposedly subtler feelings...
CAUTION: NUDE SPHINX
A sphinx with equine traits; probably a precursor of the Krelkin, a sphinxlike alien who befriended me later...
Tehura was a beautiful sphinx exploring our human world; she led me to a new way of seeing us...
CAUTION: SPHINX BREASTS
I find the sketch-journal of a beautiful winged sphinx who left her mythic isle
to explore a great city of crazy bipeds, called San Francisco...
CAUTION: SPHINX SEX, SPHINX ATTITUDE
After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx...
A preteen sphinx pleased with herself and her treebranch world...
A moody teenage sphinx treed by the hounds of her own disdain...
That moody teen sphinx has grown up at last, and relaxed again...
Lost in the rainforest of Olympic National Park, I stumble into the wrong cabin:
the hut of Time herself. Or is she? She asks me to clean up, but spare her web...
First a lone image on waking, of a woman cradling a skeleton; ten days later,
a nightmare of spiders swarming out of my toilet, covering me...
I'm a Lapp boy in northern Finland, studying shamanism. So why do I pour coffee down a driveway?
Night. I'm scared of the men in the park--till I see they're all gay. I dance,
and as darkness flares to dawn, remember how to fly--regain my falcon-wings...
Leona's a fighter--she rejects compromisers like her husband,
her friends, that miniature catgirl she's been sitting on...
The world is a whirlpool, a black and white spiral pulling me
down toward a black hole, and it's laughing...
I drum on an ocarina-gong in the dark. My weird music summons a choir of
fierce angels, who send a wave of tingling energy surging through me...
I'm at the beach, collecting stones to make a gigantic face viewable only from the air...
A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines...
As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests
given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go!
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
I have a job setting up secret doors to other realities and creating paths through our world between them...
While I study how humans went extinct, my
daughter happily splashes in the sea...
Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light...
I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too...
CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING
I feel split into warring impulses who argue, advise, ignore, and snipe at each other...
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 dark classroom, my shrink was demonstrating atom-splitting
with a glowing ping pong ball. I was glad I wasn't in that class...
Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits...
CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION?
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?
I want to drink the elixir, but negative 20 spoons block me! Can I remove them? With warped teacup logic & reciprocals…
I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague
turns us into green moldy monsters--at first...
CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME
No dream, no plot. I saw myself as a horse grazing in a forest of giant mosses, lifting spore-packets...
Divers made of ice win the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. But
I think they cheated! I seek my friend the Sphinx...
A street poet preaches a gospel of smallness, until he pokes at capitalism in a slightly too personal way...
I'm a French revolutionary facing the firing squad. But palmistry predicted I'll be strangely saved...
I'm in a department store trying on clothes when I notice there's a large zucchini growing from my crotch...
CAUTION: SQUASHY PENIS, ICKY RECIPE
I couldn't find the motivation to do enough figure studies unless they were sexy, so...
CAUTION: SEX
Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped...
CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
Just an abstract birdlike acrylic squiggle I liked. Sorry, no story...
Squirrel Girl and I try to find a private room, but Hal the mad computer in 2001
spies on us and our spaceship captain orders us to clean the ion tubes...
CAUTION: SQUIRREL NUDITY
I'm slow to catch on that this skunk's slidetalk isn't a business pitch; it's about seduction...
CAUTION: ABSURD LOVE TRIANGLE, KINKY SKUNK
I went to bed with a stuffed wolf, and found myself in a hot tub with a
cute wolf guy, only now I seemed to be the plush one...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
By a midnight lake, I comfort an abused girl in the mud. But two figures with long knives loom...
I defeat the knife-wielder, in spite the blade in my belly I can't pull out. I may have to let it be...
My daughter got a tattoo that spread and became blue feathers growing from her arms. Wings start to bud...
ESP? Weird luck? Subliminal perception? Whatever it is, it kicked me right out of a bad day...
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 froze in dance class when I followed anyone else's script. Was it fear? A dragon inside said no...
A slightly surrealized San Francisco landscape--not that it needed much help...
CAUTION: PINK PAGAN TOES
An underage girl comes on to me, and begs me to... throw her down a stairwell?!
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
I found myself on a stone pillar in a valley. Invisible people sat on other stalagmites, but my voice didn’t reach...
DAY: a stranger screams "BITCH! Plant a TREE!" Thinks I'm female and wants to fight over an old bumper sticker?
DREAM: I'm a horse detective. In shades, lipstick, & high heels I try to pass as a mare. Absurd! A stallion in drag...
CAUTION: HORSE NUDITY. OH WAIT, THAT'S NORMAL.
As a kid, my Ecotopian fantasy city was hollowed out of living rock, with hanging gardens and terraces...
My friend Stanley is a social icebreaker: thick-skinned, blundering, but useful. So why am I mad at him?
A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts?
I squabble with my body so much! But now & then, in orgasm, we dissolve into stars and become...
CAUTION: SEX POETRY
DAY: I read Starhawk's Dreaming the Dark, on building unity, undoing capitalism;
DREAM: I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
I meet the Red God of Running and Holly Golightly; we're in the triathlon up the world's greatest peak...
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY...
CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE
I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts...
John Lee, sentenced to hang, dreamt he walked to the scaffold but the trapdoor stubbornly stuck.
He woke, told his jailors the dream, walked to the scaffold, and...
He said "Oh, Mom, I had a terrible dream. A car ran me down."
I said we could not live by dreams or we live a life of horror...
I dreamed the Stealth Bomber wasn't a machine, but a gigantic Owl-god. And Stealth was worshiped...
CAUTION: CREEPING PACIFISM
As the steamroller flattened me I became quite a lovely stained-glass window...
Two big spoiled realities pester me to take care of them. At last I go on shamanic strike...
My unconscious sabotages a lunch date with my friend Stephanie. The tricks get weirder, till...
A man in a blue coat on a white horse delivered papers from a nearby wrecked ship, signed Stephenson and...
I dreamed my stepmother moved in with my dead grandparents...
Stevenson’s dreams changed over decades: from childhood nightmares into
creative collaborators dreaming whole stories...
The tollman on the new bridge to the Land of the Dead revives a beheaded woman by RANDOM action...
A woman masturbates constantly at work, then greets businessmen with her hot sticky handshake...
CAUTION: SEX
When I start feeling worthless, I paint myself. But which me?
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM
First a mutant doe with stilt legs has trouble finding a mate, then
a centauroid buck with a parasol shows us he means... business.
I envy and resent a rich family's mansion so much I break in and sabotage their giant meat freezer...
CAUTION: HOSTILITY, ENVY, WASTE OF BAD FOOD
I dreamed a small plane crashed and burned, but also how the pilot
might be saved. I asked my husband to direct the firetruck...
Greenwood dreamt her murdered neighbor's ghost gave her tips helping her catch his three killers...
I dream I'm a runner named Silky; but straying outside the crowd can get you stomped by giant aliens...
Just a soft sketch of two dancers...then this loud slutty stomping woman leapt into the center...
WARNING: NUDITY.
A stone bridge, at the crossing of a road and a river. A signal sign indicates the name of the place: (YOU)...
I love curves, not the chunky forms of this machine-ruled world...
Not a dream--one night I just found myself painting Potatohenge. For two weeks I fussed..
Repeated attempts to move a gigantic, sacred, saucerlike stone all failed; but now,
with the world's biggest cranes, we get it on a truck. It crawls past adoring crowds...
In a alien sports stadium, watching a game where a slender reptilian man pitched rocks...
I kill with an angry wish! I hide the bodies, but secretly pray someone'll catch me before I snipe again...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, GUILT
Two child prodigies fail to stop the killers stalking President Obama, but a geek with a homemade laser...
I'm sentenced for a crime I didn't commit; then the bailiff beats me for "resisting", though I'm not...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, SWEARING
The first drop struck about four miles away, with terrific force and thunder, breaking and drowning the land...
Thirsty deer invade the hall. Children play in the dunes encroaching on the city.
Will those ominous red clouds drop rain? Or sand?
I dream the actors auditioning for George Bernard Shaw’s play are blends of human, avian, and lion.
Next morning I find a card from Shaw asking if I'd fancy playing a lion in his...
This strange girl reminds me "I rode your bike recently but you forgot." She's right! Rode it in an earlier dream...
The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices...
I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species...
DREAM: I was a cheetah seeking a book of cheetah rolemodels, but this specist librarian harassed me...
PAINTING: months later, dream forgotten, I painted myself as an intellectual cheetah stretching...
A vivid nightmare that turned out a week later to be devastatingly true ...
A picture-poem experiment: one dream per stanza!
Five short dreams exploring the weight of culture on our animal selves...
I meet a woman on an oxcart who's sure we all want to poison her--
but in a way her affliction's made her forgiving, even noble...
CAUTION: MADNESS
Girls flash and strip and crawl into bed with me, but I'm blind to their interest--
till I become a snakeboy and discover the real limitations of phallic symbolism...
CAUTION: NUDITY, STUPIDITY
Half our religion-founders were just one guy, repeating till he got it right. Practice makes perfect!
The Crocodile King & the Geisha Queen, the couple who guard
the bridge over the River Styx, seem to quarrel a lot...
Earth scientists ignore the natives' tales of abyssal monsters, but the locals easily track a Terran sub...
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...
Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone...
CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)...
I was anorexic for years before I found I was allergic to many foods--I had good reason not to eat!...
I’ve had premonitory dreams of friends’ deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action...
I spontaneously change sex! At first I'm happy, but I find unexpected disadvantages...
My sister and I are on a ship abandoned by its crew, heading full-steam for the rocks, when...
I'm a teenage girl diving for treasure. In an eerie coral grotto reeking of sulfur,
I spot a diver in trouble... and wake to find the grotto is real..
I turn shy with women I like. So I wish for a dating coach, who appears! Then I feel dumb: how come I...
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...
Two nude women (drawn Wally Wood style) dance ritually in a
forest, summoning a worm-snake-dragon with a ring of fangs...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I had to sell my horse Shadow, but I missed him so much I painted him. As I finished, a strange impulse led me...
I dreamed a short story--even its title. Not that I read it. No, I lived it, through the eyes of a 5-year-old...
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...
Bishop is being driven mad by insomnia... until predawn birdsong wakes her,
and she discovers she's been dreaming of insomnia... maybe.
I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit its homeworld, to find it has a curious variant...
CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
Multiple tornadoes touched down in the fields, but the farmer's wife sewed
in a rocking chair, oblivious. I moved to warn her but my lieutenant said...
I careen from a shamanic laboratory
to a shattered ring round an alien world
to (gasp) an honest politican!...
A mom in the Black Forest photographed her young son and took the film to a lab in Strassburg. War broke out; she never got back.
Two years later in Frankfurt, she photographed her young daughter. The film came back with both her kids--superimposed.
The film with her son's latent, invisible image had wandered across wartorn Germany to be sold mistakenly as fresh--to her.
CAUTION: TWISTS "COINCIDENCE" INTO A PRETZEL
During Tiananmen, I was in Beijing for a conference. I heard chaotic noise outside, and the muffled sounds of gunfire.
I dreamed a star painted the sky an eerie purple-green. Children sang, marching over snow, rifles fitted with bayonets...
I'm a married couple--the cook and laundress for an English observatory in 1948.
Why are we testifying to a Labor Party committee that we WANT to be servants? Well...
(1918 and 1996, twin images of our limited conception of dreaming)
What you call dreams are just the surf-zone between waking and dream!
Swim out past the foam to the dream-deeps and you'll find...
Through twin gates of dream--not ivory and horn any more, but fear and trust...
Three castles on the sea: a Mock Kremlin, a Ship of Toiletpaper, and a Ship of Brick and Beer...
A mad old surfer of the San Andreas Fault, impossibly riding earth-change...
Skimming over the lake on surface tension as two sharks prowl beneath, I'm not sure who's fishing for whom...
I hijack a Lacewing Chopper to install a new rubber-band engine, but the motor becomes a talkative penis, and...
CAUTION: ONE WEIRD WEENIE
I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man named...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death...
As we cross a scary ledge, my tough survival-guide, always no-nonsense before,
finally willing to consider... intellectualism, dating, ethics... fun?
To avoid being stabbed, I flee the Psychodrama Circus. Wisely--the place explodes!
But it's the filling of the sushi roll that really upsets me...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI
The tale of the most truly sincerely religious revelation I've ever witnessed...
CAUTION: REAL WITCHES
The ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco were the setting for an otherworldly dream...
I dreamed I drew our dog and me mating, then found the drawing on a gallery wall for all to see...
CAUTION: CARTOON BESTIALITY
Chapman dreams he must walk 100 miles to London Bridge; on the bridge, a stranger says
"dreams are nonsense! Why, I dreamt of buried treasure 100 miles away, in some town called..."
An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
I was late for something, so I opened my pocket watch and swallowed a bunch of numbers...
Navaho country felt like home--the land, the art, the animals, the language. Trapped in suburbia, I drew...
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns.
I track down the wizard who cursed me. He turns me into a swan! Worse?
No! His first curse was on a human being, and now I'm a bird. My mind is free!...
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...
I pull my mom's sweater onto my legs but get tangled (and bits of anatomy dangle).
Worse, I'm emulating Jesus. Is this any way to get a date?
CAUTION: WARDROBE MALFUNCTION, GENDER MALFUNCTION, MOM MALFUNCTION
Swedenborg stuns the Queen of Sweden by whispering a secret only she and a dead man knew;
A widow begs him to ask her late husband to find a lost receipt. Swedenborg reveals a secret drawer;
Swedenborg, at a dinner party, grows alarmed by a fire that nearly burns his home--500 km away!
A lonely little girl plays on a swing in her yard. A shy young faun or satyr
who has a crush on her conjures up a strange gift: a translucent wall of candy...
Swimming down among the tentacles didn't bother me. I wanted that ball. But I didn't see the BIG eye...
I have recurring dreams of figures broken up by hair the color of the background...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
Tracking two cats at night, I watch amazed as they dive in and swim gracefully across a swimming pool...
On a cruise to Catalina Island, I find friends, a boyfriend and a magical sea of color...
I met an elfin girl who's tattooed realistic vaginas all over her body, as... decoys? For she has...
CAUTION: NUDITY, TATTOOS, TABOOS...
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where I meet a swordswoman in a red bikini. I get a unicorn pendant,
go lucid, and become a heron too, but next day, it's the red-bikini-swordswoman I actually meet...
I slept late and felt a bit stiff, but until my friends pulled it out of my neck I had no idea...
Dusk. A plain. A troop of swordsmen approach me, draw their weapons...
and toss their spinning, shining swords up to the stars...
I'm Sybil Sue, a hard-boiled shapeshifting shamus, on the track
of the most wanted bankrobbers in LA: the Bad Girls...
CAUTION: IN BETWEEN GUNSHOTS, THE BAD GIRLS SWEAR
Sylvia, the fabulous Dog Singer, leads me through a spy film, a French romantic farce, Fellini's Rome...
I dream my watch is way off and I’ll be late. When I wake, I check
my daughter’s watch. They agree. They can’t BOTH be wrong, can they?