I sculpted a plaster abstract, then found it wasn't. A vortext of bedsheets, faces, hands, bodies...
Bess painted images that look like abstract symbols
but actually flashed in front of him when half asleep...
I was moved that Betty came to see my two babies despite her illness, but shocked when her father told me...
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
I'm in bed sleepily petting my cat, when I see my cat across the room! What's on my legs? It's big.
My cat chases it off... through the wall? My room is sealed. Where did it come from, where did it go?...
To prove I really am lucid-dreaming, I let a streetcar run me over. Mm, crunchy! Then I find out...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT OM...
While we're making crop-circles in the field of psychotherapy, my hypnotist and I start to argue...
Escaping the tiny red plush room inside a star, I dive back to earth. Oops. A beast eats my broken body. My soul waits...
He turns on the radio, and a moment later a loud horn section rings out.
I wake shocked--for that horn fanfare isn't just in my dream ears...
Examples of inexplicable moods that appear (after the fact) to be reactions to future events...
I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing
he had put together; I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out...
From age six on, Simon nightly climbs mountains and faces roaring floods in a sort of naptime bootcamp...
I half-wake as a kettle abruptly starts whistling. Odd, it's quite unlike ours. Wake. Silence. A dream!
Dawn. That abrupt whistle again! But this time, real. Somehow, a housemate got our kettle to sound...
CAUTION: APPARENT E.S.P.
The moment I find the Key, I'm possessed! I wake to find it's just a nightmare. Only who's broken into my house?...
CAUTION: DEMONIC POSSESSION & EVERYDAY PSYCHOPATHS
Creatures in the primal sea touch my third eye, dragons cry their eyes out, I fight the Sphinx, and arrive at last in...
I held the strangest and most entrancing object I have ever seen: the very citadel of life itself!...
Pete told me to skip the shortcut. Only after I'd turned the truck around did I realize Pete had died weeks ago...
I dreamt the Goddess of Spring paraded by my house. I woke and leapt to my bedroom window, and there she was...
Drowsing on the bus, I see great holes open in the pavement. Our bus falls in. We climb out to find devastation...
I wake and get off the bus. A few days later, I see my nightmare on the news: that massive quake in Alaska...
Closing my eyes I saw an old man and a red-haired girl in a shop. My workmate was writing home...
I tried to cartoon a joyful dream but nightmares kept intruding. Finally, aching, I half-slept...
My spirit guide Silky came, and said the obvious, and stretched my sore neck and back...
CAUTION: NUDE ANIMAL DANCE TROUPE
Just a lazy, sexy image that came to me, of floating in air like a pinwheel, licking and being licked...
CAUTION: SEX
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...
Bishop is being driven mad by insomnia... until predawn birdsong wakes her,
and she discovers she's been dreaming of insomnia... maybe.
I dreamt again of that mountain east of Concord where no hill exists. I ascended that long
rocky ridge where wild beasts haunted, into a superterranean grandeur and sublimity...
In the border-mountains, there is a Trumpeter. His clear, triadic melodies break out through the frosty air,
or through the swirling mists. No one knows whether the Trumpeter is theirs or ours...
Half awake, Nabokov interprets shadows as guillotines and believes he and his wife will be executed...
You cannot stay forever / on this side of the river
with darkness coming over / and salt has lost its savor...