A tall busty girl's younger, part-unicorn friend starts developing breasts at last. She makes
boob jokes, mocking her own body to reassure her herdmate she's no competition...
CAUTION: SELF-PUTDOWNS
I fall in love, defying kidnappers, dwarf-tossers and
Toulouse-Lautrec, until I become a time-traveling bunny...
CAUTION: SEX, SHAMANISM, DWARF-TOSSING (LAUTREC!)
A child dreamer and two different kinds of cyborg must cooperate
to free the hostages imprisoned under San Francisco Bay...
An artificial intelligence acquires fans and has orgies with her groupies. Her creators
don't care as long as the advertisers get product placement. But she has this size fetish...
CAUTION: VIBRATORS
As Red Emma said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution..."
Why'd I have to get my big inspiration deep in a lake
in the Land of the Lizard People high in the Andes?
Writer Alice Miller tried painting her childhood monsters. I tried it and got surprise messages...
CAUTION: FRANK LANGUAGE
I'm one of a trio of swimmers in a pool, making out--under the surface only. Must we hide?
I'm near Shiprock with a flying-saucer girl who sees the nearby crags and far snowy peaks
as all the same size and distance... how to teach perspective?
CAUTION: SKINNYDIPPING, GROPING
I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept...
Alpine deer-hamsters, pigs, birds, children, even fundamentalists’ daughters grow up and want to fly free...
A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters...
CAUTION: CARTOON SEX
I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
A psychic dream about a New York ballet student who was a black panther. Lower case...
I dream of the legendary maiden chained to a rock, and the dragon coming
to abduct her--but neither one is as advertised. They look strangely akin...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge.
A guardian angel who's a sort of kindly, sacred succubus...
CAUTION: SEX
I was an angel slipping through matter, who, like a shark, needed to
keep moving to breathe--stop and I'd drown in the world, lose myself...
The joyful animal-angel I feel myself to be in my happiest dreams.
A night of gorilla-guerillas, feminist backlash among wolves,
and horse-ballerinas, first in chorus lines, then a sexy soloist...
When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the dimwits...
I was a pregnant dancer on the Fertility Goddess's new TV show, but I was mad at her...
I think Yeats was wrong to use the Sphinx to symbolize the brutal post-Christian era he foresaw...
All the runaways & homeless girls in town start calling themselves antelopes. I bring home
an antelope date. But my mom, who looks like my Reaganite grandma, sees a literal antelope...
I fear falling? The drop increases. Want a softer surface? The rocks turn to dirt, then water.
Want help? Here comes a flying dolphin. Oh, but I'm not dreaming...
On an alien world I meet a judge from the newly discovered
galaxy of Antlia, and learn distance can lend objectivity...
I fall in love with a diplomat from a hive mind. Am I luring her into dangerous individuality?
DREAM: Ants invite me to a picnic. But one of the dishes they serve is--other ants!
NEXT DAY: I'm invited to a picnic. And my friend, munching, says...
CAUTION: BUG-EAT-BUG WORLD
I hop on a bus in mythical Greece, and this woman's guardian angel acts racist. OK, I'm an ogre. So?
CAUTION: ANOTHER HANDGUN TRAGEDY
I'm a hobbit in Silicon Valley, stalking Ring-wraiths down El Camino. But one of them's stalking me...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, HYPNOTIC GASLIGHTING
Sure I've been through hell, but how the hell did that get me elected archangel? And why's my butt itch?
CAUTION: ITCHY BUTT
I'm a shy woman in a truckstop town who learns why I don't fit in. But will I, among my real kin?...
I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory...
DREAM: to stop an idiotic bout of war-fever, I have to take on the power of the Goddess herself...
NEXT DAY: I stumble on a fantasy book, Ariel, full of details straight out of the dream...
THAT NIGHT: I sign the Unicorn Commitment, but personalize the magical contract...
CAUTION: DISSES REAGAN & SOUTHERN MASCULINITY
Aristotle keeps marrying my friends and fucking them up. So I challenge Mr. Logic to a shamanic duel...
CAUTION: THE F-WORD. OOPS, TOO LATE! LESBIAN FISH, TOO.
A strange horny frustrated being, part human part horse, who needs hands to grab the centaurs...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION
I had a dream about a beautiful dragon. It is not easy to put something from your dream onto paper...
The Engineers make Eden... logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon
goes viral. How can I escape the their ultra-efficient hell?
I was a reptilian archeologist, a million years from now.
What I dug up at the beach threatened my marriage...
My two moms sell art fabrics made by grayish batwinged sisters whose newest ad is risqué...
CAUTION: ADS WITH NUDE BATS
Gaea dances the children's rhyme. I just hope we don't all fall down...
Jungian angels at a conference of dreams test my progress. But I'm all
backwards! Struggle with the easy stuff; zoom through the hard stuff...
It was a dark and stormy night. I was lost, till I stumbled on God
in her underground control room. God was helpful. Too helpful...
I'm in a cafe in Narnia when the lion-god Aslan attacks a giraffe for the mortal sin of
dating a zebra. And why not? Oral Roberts University just banned interracial dating...
CAUTION: CRINGEWORTHY CHRISTIANS
I have amnesia. Plus, I'm dead. But I have this great NASA job! Only there's a saboteur...
CAUTION: SNOTTY ABOUT CHRISTIANS AGAIN
DREAM: I'm a girl in love with an underage abused girl (using me to heal?) But gossips (& the Swedish navy) won't let us be...
FILM: A Swede gets his teenage assistant pregnant--and small-town gossips blame her. So she writes Pippi Longstocking...
CAUTION: TEEN SEX; ESP?
Having psychic dreams is awkward. People bite you for seeing their secrets...
The panther in the Jungle Books was really female. I grew up with her cub...
Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe...
A whale-spirit marries a poker-player. But her sonar sees too much. Whale-spirits prefer blackjack...
The Ice Hotel, where all my selves are sealed. Can we thaw Einstein? Balolokong the Rainsnake says...
My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse...
CAUTION: NUDITY
On a bar bet, we seek God. We reach the Isles of the Blessed, but they're complacent. We want the wild
God, the real God, the Bad Taste God. Onward, pagan questers! Because we want to win our bet.
CAUTION: LAZY-ASS ANGELS
I meet a sex-kitten in the Underground Cartoonists' Bar, but her body language makes no sense to me...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE FLIRTATION... OR IS IT?
The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock
of squirrels to seek revenge. But maybe I should I let it go...
Our toy train full of nude baseball players went under the park sprinklers, so naturally our
shortstop shelters her friend the outfielder snake. But in there? Isn't it just as wet in there?
CAUTION: SCALY SEX
In old Egypt, a part of me sabotages my audience with Bast, the Cat Goddess. Why?
A New Age graduation party spurs a wild dream of the spiritual odyssey of Catwoman,
starring Alexander the Great, Batman, God, and Rumi the poet (played by Frank Zappa)...
CAUTION: MORAL RELATIVITY
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'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying...
CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO!
There are many astral planes--this world's just the cellar.
A cat and a bird in love, a literate bear and I guard the astral stair...
My family has a hidden gene for incest--and griffins.
When I bring the family skeleton from the closet...
CAUTION: RAPE, INCEST
The Goddess won't tell me who to seek, to love, just WHAT to seek--and what not to...
CAUTION: DIVINELY SANCTIONED TRIGAMY?
Two time-traveling paleontologists get a gift from their friend the Bee Queen. A gift with six-inch fangs...
A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied...
On my first trip to Europe, I found bees there live in boxes. They came to me in my dream to say "We are slowly
starving, as humans kill the flowers and trees we need." They asked me to warn the white people, who are deaf...
A beetle helps me on a fairytale quest, then founds a great house;
but only a year later, he's an ancient patriarch, and I'm still young...
A shy woman's belt slowly comes alive, but like most snakes, it has weak eyes. Would glasses help?...
As I tour an English estate, wrinkled green elephantine creatures 20' tall peer at me through huge spectacles.
I'm told "they're only kept now for their singing." I want to hear, but my guide's bored; I let her drag me off...
CAUTION: CONFORMITY STIFLES SHAMANISM
My top-heavy friend Beryl borrows my ass and legs to become
a centaur so she won't fall over. But I want them back, so...
CAUTION: CRUDE AND STUPID
My friend Beryl's ghost makes mad love to me--just long enough to swipe my Kundalini energy...
CAUTION: SUCCUBISM?
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
A sex-ghost appears in my bed, but when overstimulated,
she tends to fade out. Bad reception!...
CAUTION: SEX
Two unarmed sisters on bikes easily defeated a dragon, but in a
rematch he killed them, and all other challengers. What changed?
In the canyon behind our home, a steel-clawed birdman taught my brother and me to fly by shouting "NO!"...
How a centaur tames birds in the Sierra Nevada...
First, in a maze, I meet a huge bison with her calf; then, in a school gym,
I meet an even bigger alien, twiggy, spindle-shaped, mysterious...
We unearthed a sacred treasure, but now a mob of believers are out to lynch us! I better fly...
CAUTION: SACRILEGE AND BAD PUNS
A dream-voyage round the world on the Black Current, only to wake up back in my animal village...
CAUTION: GORILLA MARRIAGE
My sister & I try to sing an original, but every note summons old jazz greats, leaving us
no musical elbow room! So I quack like a duck. Nope! Giant ducks appear, and say...
CAUTION: RACIAL ANXIETY? GIANT DUCKS!
Chapter 8 of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone.
A packet of magic soupmix sends me upstairs to a secret wizards' lab.
They've summoned a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn...
After days sick, I open myself to unseen spirits and let a black wavefront
go through me--and the healing begins. But what did I let in?
CAUTION: MYSTICISM & FETISHISM DON'T MIX
Inspired by Lynda Barry, I fill a black-paged book with 20 improv paintings.
They grow into a tour of my dreamwork led my anima Silky, a nightmare...
I'm a Fast-Food Detective tracking down a kidnapper-sorceress.
I find castles, monsters, magic carpets... and unexpected love.
CAUTION: SEX
by Wayan; 2002/5/29 - 2004/5/11, a diagnostic, predictive dream-series; Bleeding Heart as comix
A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her...
CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
I was Eve's guardian angel the second time round, and I blew it again. But this time, it came out right....
CAUTION: BREASTS AND BEASTS
Our brains are really squid stuffed in a skulljar. I wake, see the image on TV. "So it's predictive!" I think.
Then I wake to find that too was a dream. "Not predictive!" I think. Until my friend turns on the TV, and...
Seems strange to have no hands. How do dolphins get things done? By not needing to get things done?
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I'm a wizard chasing crooked politicians in a big city. They have a car, I hop a trolley--
only on the astral plane it's a giant blue millipede, and...
CAUTION: RECKLESS DRIVING, THEFT OF PUBLIC MILLIPEDE
A startling deep-blue rabbit with scarlet eyes and red veined ears, floating in colorless air...
I'd been reading Watership Down, the chapter on the Black Rabbit of Inlé...
CAUTION: ART THEORY CRUSHES BUNNY
A visit to a world where they fear blue soup ends in death and resurrection, so I'm pissed at my boss--God.
CAUTION: DEATH, REBIRTH, SACRILEGE... JOB BURNOUT
I'm in bed with a witch and a piano who's come alive and wants to try sex with us. But I worry a stranger named
Linda will break in. I wake, write the dream--and a stranger breaks into our house seeking her son! Her name's...
CAUTION: BIZARRE THREESOME, BIZARRE PRECOGNITION
Were the rowdy face-boats really ghosts haunting this old house, harbingers of my future online... or both?
Hawk Girl and Pearl Dragon sing a love-duet on the joy of allergies...
If artists do this with ink, what makes you think genetic engineers will do any better with flesh?...
CAUTION: DON'T DO THIS AT HOME
I seek a stolen magic necklace, but end up dating the thief, an elf-queen with STRANGE taste in cookery...
CAUTION: BAD SOUP
Soul-Poodle is torn between Le Bone Dieu and Dancing Pussy. Who will our horny dogma chase?
CAUTION: MUTT SMUT
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
I look down on scrawny centaurs with cropped manes & tails: butch minimalism. Unsexy! Then I'm
down among them. Now they have big eyes, luxuriant manes and tails: femme excess. I find this sexy...
CAUTION: CENTAUR NUDITY
My evil twin, Boris Badenov, wants $8000 or else. I ask my dreams for a solution, and get one...
This picture does not actually contain any authentic boston beans, just Hieronymus Boschton b...
A recurring childhood dream on how weird a boy-body is when you've been a girl too many lifetimes.
CAUTION: PUBLIC HUMILIATION, NUDE MONSTERS, SILLY GENITALIA
A girl in my dance class stretched like making love to the air. But when I drew her, a black wolf...
CAUTION: WEREWOLF SEX
Women who run with the wolves? Ha! In Mongolia, the only ones who can beat lightning-demons are...
After I saw the film "Surviving Picasso" (he's brilliant but treats women like dirt)
I dream a sexy friend asks me to remove a strange curse. But can I?...
I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free.
But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object...
CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD
A sexy encounter with two robotic girls hopping a night train outside Portland...
CAUTION: THREESOME
I'm a reporter interviewing survivors of a plane crash--a puma and a pit bull. Can I survive the survivors?
I meet a sexy seal-girl. Being single and desperate, I overlook a slight values conflict...
CAUTION: DISGUSTING JOB
I'm analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ...
The Hunt of the Unicorn (yeah, guess who I am), as I fly through the worlds fighting Reaganism...
CAUTION: MOCKS THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR
We all wear magic beltbuckles. Twist one--your body stretches from squat to willowy. Except mine...
CAUTION: SEX, BODY-IMAGE DISTORTION
Gosh, I'm speechless. How Zen! Market me at once!
CAUTION: MOCKS RELIGION. OR ADVERTISING. ONE OF THOSE.
I met a god. Unmistakably a god. The Builder, hard at work--making Utopia, by hand.
Cleo the talking kitten denies being a cat, so I invent Wolf-N-Puma Chow!
Must I play similar games to nourish that other feral critter... me?
Princess Chinchilla and I use an umbrella to escape the Wizard. Now to escape the Dream Researchers!...
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...
If you dream, don't drive. If you drive, don't dream. A public safety message from the other world.
I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were
laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
By twisting strangely, humans can slip into a higher plane. Ten feet higher!
So unless you climb on the roof, you end up in the tunnels of the burrowcats...
I dreamed this was in our civic museum: a painting of the central
dynamo of our world finally erupting: the Businessman in Anguish.
Businessmen grow snouts or short trunks and their necks stretch.
They drive VW Beetles with the sunroof open. Works in summer, but...
My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die...
CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES
In a world with a dozen intelligent species, dominated by dinosaurs,
I get in trouble for publishing a kinky tale of forbidden mammal love...
I help run the Dream Hotel, a giant mushroom with grand forest views.
It's the off season; our only guest is this lovely butterfly-wolf girl...
CAUTION: NUDE WOLF
A glowing sentient autistic button falls in love with a small boy; then I try
to make two friends change orientation and fall in love by singing 'Molly Malone'...
CAUTION: JUST... WRONG
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 dream I'm a lemur-girl in an emotional maze.
I wake to find I'm really a satyr cartoonist.
Funny, we have a lot in common! I wake to find...
CAUTION: PHALLIC SATYRE
No more token canaries--the all-canary workforce, that's us. Let's see if these products are toxic...
CAUTION: ANTI-CAPITALIST
1521: I ask a talking ape how long I'll live. "Four years" he says. "No longer?" "No."
26 years later, I'm still hoping to get truth from dream-figures--two dead guys tell me...
CAUTION: JUNGIANS BEHAVING BADLY
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 take Cassandra's prophecies seriously, but she can't make sense of my future.
So we go see an otter with a crystal ball. But he's installed a new security system...
A mysterious old woman with cat-face and claws threatened me; she seemed
to be guarding a treasure. Sometimes she appeared as a praying mantis...
My cat keeps going into heat and sneaking out for sex with my godmother's pet crab, and...
CAUTION: SEX, BAD PUNS, CRABBINESS
I'm a doctor in the future, trying to heal the neurolink between a girl and her cat...
A vague, warm, confusing image of a sort of half-bird half-cat who was half-pet, half-lover...
CAUTION: AVIALITY (THAT'S BESTIALITY WITH FEATHERS)
I cover my computer's desktop with this image tiled endlessly. And will, till the lesson sinks in...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I have recurring dreams of this sexy feline anima or familiar who loves dance.
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
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...
DREAM: I'm attracted to the catgirl on the roof, but the neighbors all obsess about elephants...
NEXT DAY: I'm asked to draw the poster for a co-worker's farewell picnic. The theme? Elephants...
CAUTION: NUDE CAT
I was never sure where her winter cloak ended and her winter coat began...
An early dream-based sculpture carved out of dry white clay as if it were soft stone...
DAY: I thorn-puncture my hands while gardening, and write stupid poetry about it...
EVE: I watch Little Darlings, a teen sex farce that turns weirdly serious...
DREAM: a Mysterious Pussy guards us librarians from stinky alien dinosaurs...
CAUTION: SEXUAL INNUENDO???
I'm an alien exchange student in Palo Alto High School. I get stared at--they wear clothes, they don't fly...
CAUTION: FELINE NUDITY
I glue cat-legs on my snaky friend, despite the scare talk
from Christians sure that snakes never change...
I meet a big cat who seems invisible to most humans. She talks in Armenian speech balloons.
Too bad she already has a boyfriend! But her mere existence proves there's hope for me...
A guy threatens me with a knife. I sit on him and wait patiently.
Slowly he turns into a huge black cat! I set him free in a garden...
I'll link this to its dream if I can find it, but so far, I'm bewildered--and curious.
Who the hell IS that, in the Cauldron of...
Non-dream centaur ballerinas invade my dreams, because they long to be in the World Dream Bank...
CAUTION: BARBIE CENTAUR NUDITY, CASTING-COUCH OVERTONES
Me and my sisters at the beach. Strangers rarely think we're related, and you can see why...
An experiment with digital textures that fascinated me. Not a dream, just feels like it.
I had hay fever all day, and wished I was at ease in nature--in heat, blissed out, and loved...
CAUTION: CANINE/CENTAUR ORAL SEX
Fear anorexia? Gain weight, yet stay slender--be a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova...
CAUTION: NUDITY; BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES
A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness...
CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
Just a really cute guide to the centaur country around their holy mountain, Shasta...
CAUTION: BREAST
I'm not a big soccer fan. I'd play more if only I had enough feet...
A centaur divorces, into a unicorn and an unfinished faun-girl, who argue "Forward!" "Not ready!"...
CAUTION: TRANSPARENT BREASTS
An image influenced by a recent dream, "Centaur Quartet...
I'm a centaur. I never left Eden. I'm still in the Garden. You are too, every night, in dreams...
CAUTION: BREASTS
Can our interspecies family survive? Our very instincts clash around solitude/boundaries, sex and incest
CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, REPRESSION/DENIAL
Like a long molecule floating in darkness, this dream creature could loop and link to itself...
CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, LANGUAGE
Wise advice from a funny looking centauress at a nude beach...
CAUTION: CRUDE NUDE
I'm walking through Harvard Square late at night. Buildings are lit up festively, but
it's pretty deserted. I notice creatures scampering around up on the roofs....
I'm a cheetah working as a baker in Coconino County, Arizona, haunted by Krazy Kat...
I try to rescue my girl friends losing a boat-chess game
to a devil, but they'd rather be with bad-boy him than me...
CAUTION: NUDE DEVIL
A vampire wrestler on the Throne of Heaven pins me. Visualization and prayer don't free me--in fact, they get me killed...
Two giants wrestle in the Chinese mountains. Who'll win, Red or Yellow? But when I wake...
In an alternate Judea, I long for a female Christ and her lesbian apostles.
My lust is unrequited, till a small Sex Kitten gives me some wise advice...
CAUTION: CAT NUDITY, BLASPHEMY
Ballooning over Middle Earth with a metamorphosing butterfly-girl, we drift into forbidden territory:
I meet a giant psychic baby feared by 12-step people. So I go to the beach and find
I'm a shark-bit girl who can have her missing chunks sewn back in--if I still have room for them...
I'm warily crossing an avalanche chute in winter, when my worst fear happens. Then the slide speaks up...
At a polyspecies circus, I sketch three acrobat-dancers--one deerish, one human, one... a mannequin?
Fiendish to draw! I wake frustrated & sketchless. But my sketchwork in the dream helps me redraw it awake...
CAUTION: DEER NUDITY
I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in
and carry on--clumsy and lonely. Then a divine herald arrives from the Isles: Donald Duck! He says...
My skateboard-riding mermaid girlfriend and I bind ourselves together by the magical power of names...
I keep dreaming I'm in a multispecies family full of centaurs and satyrs, having a reunion at the beach...
CAUTION: NUDE BEACH, STRANGE RELATIVES
A woman's stalked by a clay monster that eats heads. But it has a proposition for both of us...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTER
I fight a clay golem of resistance, until inspiration hits, and I do what it may have had in mind all along...
I was a wild mare in heat, torn between longing for sex, touch, love...and the fear of being tamed.
CAUTION: HORSE FRUSTRATION
I was a man made of clocks trying to get a date with a hedgehog-hair woman...
CAUTION: ANOTHER HORNY GUY WHO DOESN'T GET FAR
I model with ten blonde clones. They want to be seen as individuals, so it's their last fashion show before...
My foxy lover teases and tempts, but I can't let him into the patio for fear he'll hurt the rabbits…
CAUTION: UNFUNNY BUNNY PUNS
I always laughed at those silly superhero outfits. But when it's my turn to fly, I find out why...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
Abducted as a kid by alien angels and raised in a luminous
cloud, I find it hard to keep a mortal, human perspective...
A girl I like invites me to her apartment. Her personal stormcloud hovers over her. Her housemates come home
and warn me "It's always there, it's her attitude," and I realize I like angsty intelligence, but I need a sunny...
Clouds wake up. Maybe they were always aware, but now they're aware of us. And rage against us all.
Oh, humanity'll survive. But easy times are over...
CAUTION: PARTISAN INTERPRETATION
I'm trapped in an alien hotel, my true love has gone radioactive,
and the only way out is to turn into a giant, scary...
CAUTION: CLOSET LESBIAN. LITERAL CLOSET.
I explore a zone lost in Shroedinger probabilities, and meet time-ghosts who want to collapse into reality...
Being a hippie artist in San Francisco today feels like being an animal in an African game park...
Hong Kong's not devolving to China, but to Faerie. As governor, I have to defend human rights, so...
A castle with horse statues in the moat. Only... one of them is alive! He's my lover...
CAUTION: EVERY SEX TABOO YOU CAN THINK OF
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'm from a race of self-policing psychics, starting to wonder if we've created our own Inquisition...
A visit to the Conches, a strange race of molluscs who are people only seasonally...
When I'm confused, this angel comforts me with this MORE confusing quote...
The tale of a gray heart trying to heal leads to unicorn-hostage drama in the Transamerica Pyramid...
CAUTION: SEX, MAFIA THREATS, VIOLENCE
I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death...
CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX
I visit a world of ravenish people, the Corvi, who banished their longtime
partners, the wish-granting Fey, calling them parasites. I decide to meddle...
A mystical vision of the Cosmic Egg gets messy when it hatches and the Bird escapes...
God flames me for putting pagan stuff on the Net, and we end up suing each other. Then the riots begin...
CAUTION: HITMEN AND HERESY
A shapeshifter caught in the moment of transformation, just as her arms unfold into smoky wings...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal...
CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE
Coyote's pagan parody of the Christian Lord's prayer. Well, actually, it's kind of sweet..
CAUTION: SACRILEGE, ESPECIALLY THE BIT ABOUT TEMPTATION
One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in...
1991: dream of a weird tower like a cantileved skeletal sculpture of a coyote, in San Francisco. Sketch it then forget it.
1993: experimenting with a paint program, I make a peculiar image. No idea it's from a dream...
2020: transcribing old journals, I find the dream-sketches. My nondream experiment... wasn't.
A crane came and spoke to me, reassuring me "I'll be back" even as a great fire burned it. It returned
as a white butterfly. Next morning, as we played hide and go seek, I shut my eyes and counted to...
CAUTION: CIVILIANS MASSACRED
I dreamed I couldn't walk on water like Jesus, but I COULD crawl on it! A baby miracle.
CAUTION: NUDITY
A weird little forest god bred me from an ordinary deer into a creature who can
almost pass for human. But World War 2 killed my god, and now I'm growing into...
CAUTION: NUDITY, CROSSBREEDING
In endangered woods I meet deer with bold black-and white feather crests.
Higher up, it's barren--a hard winter. But I taste a medicinal blue-black fruit...
A cricket actress I know makes it into the Dynasty of the Gods! Or is it the TV soap "Dynasty"?...
Crissi is a strange creature that has prowled my subconscious for a few years...
CAUTION: SPIDER SEX, BONDAGE
I'm the receptionist for a research group of small oracular animals
in an Icelandic rift, who can sniff out the answer to any question...
Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily...
A crow offers me a ride. I hang on tight and he flies me up into a beech tree where lots of other crows
perch and talk. Then he flies me to another tree and leaves me. I think "How am I gonna get down?"...
It was on a beach. Inside, a black thing squirmed and boiled.
Despite all the tales of vengeful djinn, I pull the cork...
I learn from the crows of Oz why loneliness and even tragedy are vital for a living universe...
I'm in an airport full of aliens who, when bored, crystallize until things get fun again.
My long planeflight glows like a dragon-hoard! But it's lonely...
We're Cubist cartoon characters, trapped in a strip gone mad. But my dad stays calm! Too calm...
CAUTION: SEAS OF BLOOD... OR IS IT RED INK?
How I cursed Isabella the sofa sorceress, cursed her with a blueberry. And why that stinks...
CAUTION: UNDER THE MAGIC, IDEAS
A witch with a messed-up mind makes me her sex slave. But what if I can bypass her brain?...
CAUTION: SEX
In the far future, I relive Odysseus' tale. To save my life I must give up realistic hope, and focus on...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTERS
I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong...
CAUTION: YUCK
I'm a protester in Dallas, fighting Reagan's cops. A werewolf kills two of them.
I may be its real prey; is police harassment distracting the wolf from me?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND DISTURBING PREDICTION
I dreamed of South American musical intrigue in a grand hotel. Enter a polka-dot shapeshifter...
I meet a nice werewolf in a hall of past-life junk, so sharp and rusty we dare not play...
I cross a hostile continent to a magic commune, fall in love with a flying girl who slaps a
soul-spark into my head, and follow an alien goddess leading the Dance of the Sun...
The clay came alive, shaped itself, started dancing...and mutating.
My co-worker Daphne is snappish and stressed. She meditates, seeking the cause,
and becomes a half-newt-half-koi in a giant fishbowl. Up shambles a curious AI...
I'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it?
CAUTION: RACISM, VIOLENCE, INTENSE GUILT
One of Aline Kominsky's comix has her in a bar and a guy asks "Que pasa, muñeca?" and...
CAUTION: CONVERSATIONAL FETUSES
I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow?
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NUDE MONSTERS
I tried to date a nice young butterfly but was stopped by a monster who was... my own wings?
CAUTION: UNDERAGE BUG
My little sisters tell the detectives, "Daddy's ghost has
a message for you" but at first they don't listen...
I die young, to get it over with, like chickenpox. As I slowly revive, I face bias against the dead. So..
I'm in a hotel by the Great Salt Lake. Deer roam the halls and lap at the drinking fountain...
The wolf and deer people are getting along well--a relief since I like both.
Now, can the wolves learn from the deer how to open their third eye?
Chapter 1 of a nine-story series: UNICORN TAG.
A sentient factory shows me a gene-tweaked future where the Deer Party agitates for
liberty, equality and fertility. In that future I learn I too may not be human...
A man teaches literacy to the wild deer. But with no hands, how can they give him anything in return?
CAUTION: IF YOU GOTTA ASK, YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW
The Three Wise Men are a centaur, a lion-man, and a doe-girl. But there's no Christ in the manger, so...
CAUTION: DEER-MOM BREASTS
A magic lake where deer glide on water... so I try it. And start to realize I could build such a lake...
DREAM: bisexual deer-people go on dates. Despite their fur, they seem shy about breasts.
WAKE: read Alison Bechdel's latest confessional comic. Bisexual phase, shy about breasts...
CAUTION: POSSIBLY PREDICTIVE; TOPLESS DEER
Partly based on the ancient cave painting "Le Sorcier", but here it may be the deer putting on human guise...
A witch-girl turned to a deer flees hell-hounds who just CAN'T get organized...
I used to dream of this violent anthropomorphic being. At times I'd put on his deer-skull head
and become him, inflicting and inciting violence. Naming him gave me some control...
A strange book has woodblock prints telling how a princess turns to a deer-centaur
and meets animal-headed forest guardians. But the message is rather practical...
CAUTION: (FURRY) NUDITY
In a parallel world, a gliding griflynx displays a brilliant
evolutionary strategy: joy! It's the strongest mate magnet...
A demon invades our police station, takes over our captain and lieutenant, and pushes them to fight.
But I know demonic possession can't last long. Our copshow's special effects budget is too limited...
I protect my friends from a demon, but the dream-guardians I summon terrify me...
After a nature show on bears and a horror-parody film, I dream of a man and a demon toddler
in a sick relationship. At least it sickens all of us...
CAUTION: DEVIL AND PEDOPHILE: WHO'S CORRUPTING WHO?
We desert-hobbits break through to a world of jungle giants who
see differently from us. Will they believe us about the UFOs?
After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of powerful yet obedient devil-angels;
quiet for now, but I fear they'll decide shamans like me are abominations...
CAUTION: ANGELS? GOLEMS? DEVILS?
After I die, I join with others to catch the Devil, who's a bag full of bitter, angry souls. But
he infects some kids. To free the world of evil, we'd have to kill them. Making us evil...
CAUTION: FRUSTRATING AFTERLIFE
A Queen Bee devil kidnaps my grandniece; I kill her to free the child. Turns out even Hell's leaders are relieved.
She returns as a satanic housing developer. Slicker this time, but just as crooked. Must I kill her again?
CAUTION: DEVILS, VIOLENCE (NONGRAPHIC)
Body after body is peeled away revealing truth inside truth...
CAUTION: GROTESQUE
A quiet, mysterious dream image that turned out to refer to the future, not the past...
The dinner went badly. Power outages, alarming transformations, murderous
minions. Still, I'm here to tell you! So Death is weakening...
The dinosaurs I meet manage to prove BOTH leading
time-travel theories! Yet they're incompatible...
Two men down at a rodeo. The velociraptors and pterosaurs draw near.
To scare them off, I need to do something alarming, impossible...
Peering in a spacetime gate, I wonder if all the dinos went extinct. Would we spot an ancient Singularity?
At the Psychic Faire, I'm a deer-man in a gang hunting treasure, led by a rough tough dinosaur...
I carelessly burst in on a friend, a gay dinosaur, during a Jewish holiday rite,
startling him so he raises his spiny crest, levitating his yarmulke...
A serial killer stalks our office, but our bosses deny it and do nothing.
I kill him. He revives--over and over! A robot I have to disassemble...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Round the ring of twelve worlds and their twelve gods, seeking one god who's giving me grief...
I dream of a future where blondes are a too-cute endangered species. How can they survive? Like this...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A doctor lures me into his office. What he turns out to be scares me less than how I defend myself...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, ARACHNOPHOBIA
Dr Who, that lovable BBC alien, grows a sappy flower-face and
allies with Death. An alarming turn-around! What's he up to?
CAUTION: GOOD DOCTOR GOES BAD?
Okinawa in the far future, when the world is run by dogs. Except they worship us, and we aren't there...
I get a job in China teaching bus-driving dogs how to fly. I don't know how. Luckily, the dogs...
My friend Lisadia sneers at a dog-girl's attempts to beautify her starship. I'm shocked--she's openly specist...
CAUTION: SPECISM
A dog man invites me to play in the park--and as long as
we play on soft turf, without teams or rules, I'm happy!
When I was 17, an older girl pushed booze at me and came on to me... in front of my parents and teachers!
For months, I had ambivalent sex dreams trying to process what Donna taught me--not all of it negative...
CAUTION: WEIRD SEX; ADULTS BEHAVE BADLY
DREAM: On a farm, I meet two sexy shapeshifting sisters. But mushroom clouds rise on the horizon...
NEXT DAY: at SF-MOMA, Susan Marie Dopp's paintings: shapeshifting sisters, mushroom clouds...
CAUTION: NUDITY; ESP
Lured to a parallel, feudal world by a marriage-vow, I'm trapped in my double's arrogant, twisted mind...
In a castle, a white bird lands on the table and becomes a little girl who plays with Jung's kids, hugs him,
then turns back into a bird, explaining "I can become human only for a few hours of the night, when...
I ride my tricycle all round Sydney trying to get bureaucratic approval
to feed bananas to my friend the grizzly bear, gooey though he gets...
Just a dream vacation! I take a train trip up the East Coast,
meeting, sketching and flirting with the locals, though they're...
A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world...
From Baffin Bay to suburbia, dragons are everywhere... if you look with a dragon's eye...
A young dragon, raised as human, is finally setting out to see the world on dragon-terms...
A girl writes a whole movie to get a shy boy to hold her; I stupidly summon a monster dragonfly-bus;
a devil-suited jerk hogs a musical's stage TWICE; leeches crawl from the treasure-box I opened...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, SEXUAL FEAR/GUILT
A house with a fire-ghost infestation. Worse than termites!
And the ghosts tell me it's all my fault....
I meet two women in dream-prison. One's a giant, one a miniature. A fairy? She says, 'No, I'm..."
I have no roots but those I steal--until my father leads me to a sacred tree, saying "Look to your mother"...
Fighting vampire archers is risky enough WITH proper armor! And all I have is dream-journals...
CAUTION: MENTIONS BATTERING
I'm the composer Schumann, till a nightmare jumps me and I wake. And wake. And wake...
CAUTION: MALE NUDITY
A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
A guardian figure who recurs in my dreams, painted on my dresser to guard my sleep-journeys...
A panel of argumentative gods grant me a spare lifetime of piano practice. It takes that long, but...
It's not easy to get a California driver's license, ever since the Dept. of Motor Vehicles went Jungian...
I relate so easily to animals, it's odd how ambivalent I felt about trees...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I was on one of those package dream-tours--an hour here, a scene there. But then in Patagonia...
CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM