After he died, I dreamed that the phone rang and when I said "Hello"...
At the airport, a new automatic photo booth shoots your memories!
Julie can't resist... and emerges, excited, to find that...
I mail some letters that will solve everyone's problems, but a man argues we need problems...
Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-shards, wasn't so sure...
A psychic dream about a New York ballet student who was a black panther. Lower case...
I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
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
Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her...
CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK
I'm Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, facing something scarier than gunmen: a formal ball
introducing me to my new husband's family--Austrian aristocracy! What's an American gal to do?
My dead friend Charlie and his sister and I are driving around Lake Erie.
We know it's a dream and he's dead, and yet we're joyous...
Driving through California farm hills with subtly different natural laws,
I find social consequences. Can physics create evil?
I was a reptilian archeologist, a million years from now.
What I dug up at the beach threatened my marriage...
In our marshlands, tides, birds, dogs come and go; but must our friends and lovers, too?
CAUTION: AIDS DEATHS
four death-omen dreamlets, one predictive
Every decade or so, I dream a loved one says farewell and walks
down an avenue of trees. I wake to find that person's dying...
A second me punches me in the breast. I fight back, yelling
"Bad Nancy! Bad Nancy!" Five months later I find a malignancy...
Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe...
Giant snakes chased me. I go lucid, turn & slay one. As I woke, the snakes cried. So I re-entered...
CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING
I burst into tears for no reason and for 15 minutes begged my brother-in-law not to go, then said...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
I screw the lightbulbs in my ears again, and this time, they stay. I sit down at the piano, and as I play...
In the cathedral, before the nation, I solemnly crown someone with my own detached head...
I'll win a house if I can survive a night in the Haunted Pavilion! But I've been here before--before I was born...
CAUTION: GHOST ORGY
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 mother begged me to stay in. I went out with Bill--who raped me. Mom later told me she'd dreamed...
CAUTION: DATE RAPE
Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all...
CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
My crazy friend Wayne goes bowling for busses with a black egg. Wait! Crazy? Or... predictive?
CAUTION: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE BEHAVES DISGRACEFULLY
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
I met a great blue eagle waiting to get into a library--but not to hunt books...
I dreamt Bob was a tree-god enthroned in ivy. I said...
I was trapped inside a boulder, but as I chanted it melted around me until it resembled a discarded skin...
A sequence of short dreams full of creatures. They warn I'll face leukemia...
I'm bad. I'm really bad. I know I shouldn't have done it. But my mail-order breasts were late...
CAUTION: BREAST THEFT
The Hunt of the Unicorn (yeah, guess who I am), as I fly through the worlds fighting Reaganism...
CAUTION: MOCKS THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR
The moon invites me to go flying, but I get tired of magic and just want to go shopping...
Princess Chinchilla and I use an umbrella to escape the Wizard. Now to escape the Dream Researchers!...
Our gods demand sacrifices. I let Mother mutilate me so I'd be unfit. But the priests turn out to be blind...
CAUTION: YOU CAN FEEL PAIN IN DREAMS
The night before Caesar's assassination, he dreamed he flew above the clouds and met Jupiter;
his wife Calpurnia dreamed he'd be stabbed, and begged him not to go out, but politics...
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...
I'm a doctor in the future, trying to heal the neurolink between a girl and her cat...
My writer-friend Cecy will do anything to get published. Anything? Oh, believe me, ANYTHING...
CAUTION: BONDAGE, not to mention POSTAGE
A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness...
CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
I dreamt that at 4:35 AM the chandelier over our baby's bed fell, crushing the baby to death. I woke and...
I find myself driving a speeding car down a freeway--in reverse. No, not reverse gear...
I'm warily crossing an avalanche chute in winter, when my worst fear happens. Then the slide speaks up...
I was a wild mare in heat, torn between longing for sex, touch, love...and the fear of being tamed.
CAUTION: HORSE FRUSTRATION
I'm in the Mideast. No wonder it's a war zone--it's a vast pit BUILT for war!
But a spiral stair leads slowly out, to...
A dream of exhibitionist girls playing with breast milk turns out not to be symbolic, but psychic...
CAUTION: BREASTS
A true tale proving the Trickster God really will provide. We're lilies of the field!
I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention...
CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT
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...
I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong...
CAUTION: YUCK
I die young, to get it over with, like chickenpox. As I slowly revive, I face bias against the dead. So..
Climbing a Mayan pyramid in Yosemite with Deanna Troy from the
Starship Enterprise, we meet a gunman who wants to sacrifice...
I built a sex-maze to reprogram businesspeople, but I only grasp its meaning when I fuck City Hall...
CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE, RADICAL POLITICS
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
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
My hunting license won’t let me legally shoot a giraffe or ibex, but I do bag a prime Macy’s salesman...
CAUTION: LICENSE TO KILL
The friends of a touchy aviator have to kidnap her just to give her a present... and WHAT a present...
When my first play failed, I tried to console myself by reading Paradise Lost.
But drama and devils don't mix...
Fighting vampire archers is risky enough WITH proper armor! And all I have is dream-journals...
CAUTION: MENTIONS BATTERING
I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or...
CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC
I'm an intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombies hatching from stone eggs, but I succeed
only when I become a dragon using touch, scent and visualization to persuade the eggs...
After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor...
I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. For the patient's burning from within...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE
My spirit-wife and I spend our last evening together painting. Not with colors--with emotions...
I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes...
I'm trapped in a TV documentary on nuclear war! Better dive through a TV screen and find a safe sitcom...
A monstrous Kafka beetle grows gradually out of my face. And it's a MESSAGE...
A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred...
On Christmas eve, I ask my dreams what they think of our annual orgy, and...
CAUTION: THE F WORD AND THE C WORD (CAPITALISM)
I have weird, bad luck around dating. Finally I go on a picnic with Page, and the Great Fire begins...
My eighth grade class is a flock of birds migrating south for the winter, but we don't migrate the easy way...
In my ballet class, we were learning to leap. But I wanted to FLY. So I went outside alone...
On the Night Train out of my small-town life, I meet the town rebel. But she's misplaced her tongue...
CAUTION: PETTING; UNNERVING TONGUE
In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her...
CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap
sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone...
CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT STREET STONERS
So I looked out my window and saw this guy burying a tiny robed woman in a trench in the street...
In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come...
I dream it's after a great war; I hear the music I must write, and meet the girl I must marry...
Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth.
James Hillman is the first psychologist on the moon! He sees a shadow and
panics like a groundhog--mistakes it for Death. Not his own shadow, but MINE...
Hedgehog and White Rabbit stick together, through the snipers on Broadway,
through the dogs of winter, through cannibal soup...
I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation...
CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda...
A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY
My teacher insists, "You'll be scared too, when you see it." But when he shows us humanity's greatest fear...
CAUTION: UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
After the revolution, I rule. But I get out of touch. So I throw a party and invite me, myself and I...
The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake...
A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside...
Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming...
On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are...
How did my bondage dream turn into a slot-machine jackpot? And what kind of change is pouring out?...
CAUTION: (CON)SENSUAL BONDAGE
I'm slipping dimes into a boulder of jade: a vending machine that fills every order wrong. Why feed it? Well...
Jung was told in dreams and visions that Europe would soon drown in blood. But he just couldn't believe it...
I was on a plane... It was almost graceful, the plane actually entered the building before everything dissolved into flame...
CAUTION: DEATH. DEATH TWICE.
One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later…
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS
I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I...
CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL
I dream a Chinese fable: how the poet Li Po was abucted by the gods, till they face heavenly justice...
CAUTION: ABDUCTION, DRUNKS, EVIL PUN
I was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but...
Lincoln dreamt his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later...
I'm chasing a guy named Will (short for Willful Conformity) through the classes of a mad dance academy...
A mob of kids chases me chanting "Lyin' Wayan!" I get dizzy and fall off a bridge... THEN comes trouble!
CAUTION: FATAL FALL
My dentist (a Haitian Mafia leader) sends a message to my dad (also a Mafia don) by dental cruelty....
A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets a
little advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom...
Jung (at age three and a half) sees a terrifying god deep underground, and is told "That is the man-eater!"...
On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Mercury didn't spin! One side fire, one side ice. We farmed in domes, between--until the sun brightened...
CAUTION: RETRO SCIENCE
I'm an anima. But we rarely walk the day-world for long. When will I fade? Ignorance isn't bliss, it's paralysis...
I was an avian Mr Niceguy with sore knees, till I got some advice from my supposedly extinct big brother...
Many kids anxiously dream their parents aren't their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents...
CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS
I'm a mouse with a protest banner saying "FREEDOM!", having a slight argument with a cat...
I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable...
A conversation with a telepathic unicorn-lion reveals that my true name is Wayan. And my species?...
An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero...
Natalius dreamed that angels whipped him for joining a heretic cult, and woke to find welts on his back...
At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus...
CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS
My friend Catherine dreamed she was a flying mare with golden hooves. But in real life, she lost them...
My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers?
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...
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...
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)
Plato never did say what shed the light that cast those shadows on his cave wall. I find out.
CAUTION: CUT-RATE APOCALYPSE
My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets...
CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY
I walk on Martinique with Captain Picard of the starship Enterprise. He's here to see a dreamy boy...
My detective lover warned me, "Stay away!" Now I'm trapped. Dare I follow the lion over the edge?
I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape...
CAUTION: NUDE CAT
An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-
headed, man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out...
A quarrel between psychic adepts heats up to a war,
thawing Pluto. What will the ice-tribes wish for?
My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. Can I free her?
I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation! Why do I think this is all about money?
My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born...
CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY
One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh.
CAUTION: HORROR
My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that's his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away...
CAUTION: NUDITY
My parents invite me out to dinner, but there's a rattlesnake under the table,
and my mom chases it up my leg. I wake to find two holes in my knee...
I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls...
My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake,
while I dream that a giant raven gives me weird advice...
Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love.
Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace?
CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet...
CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO!
I dream I'm telling a tall tale about a cat-funeral with hung-over mice pulling the hearse. But it turns a bit too real...
One day, in the ruins of an American city whose name was lost, I met a Ringman under an oak...
CAUTION: GROSS WORK, IF YOU CAN GET IT
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
In a Scythian church, a painting says:
"Little St Bridget was bound so hard that when they released her she flew"...
I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I it made me late for work.
They assumed I was sloppy, lazy, spacy. No; disciplined about priorities!
Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly...
Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar...
His sewing-machine design failed--until dream-cannibals caught him & jabbed him with weird needles...
CAUTION: OUCH!
My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV--
until it melts, and a terrifying giant rises to chases me...
A dream-lecturer says Shadows aren't just what we hate or fear, but what we admire yet see as "not us"...
CAUTION: IDEAS
My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and...
CAUTION: UGH!
I'm a circus tiger, then a performing shark. One day, I block my human partner's high dive... Why?
Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with actress
Linda Evans, who is a sheep teaching ballet. When I wake...
I took my cellphone into the shower. I couldn't find the shampoo, and idly typed SHAMPOO in, and...
CAUTION: NOW YOU KNOW WHO STOLE YOUR ODD SOCKS
After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness...
Sledding at night, I approached the speed of light, and the stars turned colors I'd never seen...
The night before he met his greatest student, Plato, Socrates dreamed he nursed a baby swan who grew...
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
I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too...
CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING
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
I froze in dance class when I followed anyone else's script. Was it fear? A dragon inside said no...
I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts...
A vivid nightmare that turned out a week later to be devastatingly true ...
Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone...
CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)...
The tale of the most truly sincerely religious revelation I've ever witnessed...
CAUTION: REAL WITCHES
An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
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!...
I met an elfin girl who's tattooed realistic vaginas all over her body, as... decoys? For she has...
CAUTION: NUDITY, TATTOOS, TABOOS...
A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight.
We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe...
Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me...
I was barren. I asked Asklepios, God of Healing, to make me pregnant. Soon I was--for 3 years, until...
I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis!
My friend suddenly couldn't roar. She's here too, exploring her own trachea....
Golfing in the basement with Giselle! But her ball goes through a Stargate
to land on a world where the water hazards are hazards...
A free-lance torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when I fall asleep at last...
CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE
We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf.
Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until...
My brother Henry lay in a metal casket. He wore a suit of mine. On his breast were white roses, with
one red at the centre. A few days later, the boilers of the riverboat Henry worked on exploded...
I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones...
CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM
My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
Disguised as a literary troll, I spy on the Neo-Nazis, but my disguise
can't last much longer: I ate a magical herb, and I'm growing...
In a future society, I'm deliberately, permanently paralyzed. Yet my home-grown cure slowly works...
I dream we're on a miserable camping trip. So why, when I wake,
do I think it's a diagnostic dream? It's that triple pun...
We lose control of our new time machine, which seems to have its own agenda...
CAUTION: CONTEMPLATION OF SUICIDE, CHRONOLOGICALLY IMPAIRED DREAMER
I cut off my own head! But I grew a new one. Only what to do with the old one? It's starting to rot...
CAUTION: SELF-DISMEMBERMENT
I'm a conscientious saurian who feels obliged to duel with a hot-tempered friend.
Preparing, wanting to fight fair, I don't just file my spurs blunt, I...
At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me
why she did it--and why she regrets it now...
I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls.
But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples...
I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by...
CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION
A witch in the future invents a new way to terraform small dense moons--and it'd work!...
I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret.
And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN...
A woman I had wronged set her pit bull on me! Hand in its jaws, I gave in, and we both began crying...
I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal...
CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM
A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful opportunist, and they disentangle their lives...
CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE