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
Twice a condemned man's wife dreamt of a key lost in rubble below a wall. The second time she went out to find it...
My parents' house is now a sex club. I walk in, and meet my soulmate! But in awkward circumstances...
CAUTION: SEX
Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us...
Richard Russo writes that Westerners cannot dream like tribal people.
So I dream Russo's the Cubist Dictator of Dreams! I prefer the part-equine
Lady Demicorn, and the Fat Meditating Dog, and the Birdiesattva...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
Pretty much everyone in my school is a bloodsucking alien, but, come to think of it, so what?
CAUTION: SEX, VAMPIRES, SEX WITH VAMPIRES, BUT NICE VAMPIRES
Last night I seemed in your embrace; you were about to die.
Today I wake into my place: you immortal, I...
This couple keeps appearing in my dreams--as equals, as mount and rider, as friends, as enemies, as lovers...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm told "Your lives are not in order." The golden crown's too heavy. And
I win my lover's hand--only the hand. What are my dreams accusing me of?
CAUTION: SEVERED HAND, SUBTLE GUILT
I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing...
CAUTION: UNROMANTIC
Mysterious doings on an archeological dig bring a creature back to life, but this is no Mummy...
I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as
an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
I'm a betrothed teenager having to choose between mates, in an alternate Africa where
lions are another tribe of people--and occasionally adopt humans...
CAUTION: NUDITY
My husband was standing against a wall with both arms around this woman's waist, and they were laughing...
Creatures in the primal sea touch my third eye, dragons cry their eyes out, I fight the Sphinx, and arrive at last in...
I walked along a hilly road with ropes and boxes. My wife vanished in a hollow. But
my path went on until the hills were blue in the distance. An old man interpreted...
While spelunking, I blunder into the Lord of the Underworld's court where dragons swim--and
become one! My human friends stare at me, coiled with my two mates. Do they even know me now?
CAUTION: SCALY THREESOME
My lover's face is shadowed and we are never alone together. Things slip from film-noir to open nightmare when...
CAUTION: SEX, DEATH, GUILT
On Love Day you can't mock anyone's come-on, of course; but in the bar "Cheers", Carla's mad at Diane...
CAUTION: PRO-BIGAMY?
Singing a Lennon love song on a planet of giant women provokes first wonder, then disbelief. Why?
I live two complete lives with the same woman in my dreams, then wake up next to her...
My sister and I are groping toward sex when our mom bursts in. Her scolding's not what I expect...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
I'm a cop's wife, having trouble with his need to protect me. He's hurt if I take too much initiative...
I'm in a loving animal dance troupe, but wake to find I'm alone.
For consolation, I eat at The Terrace, and meet stars. Not film stars...
I'm a psychic circus animal who's just managed to teleport my humanoid girlfriend. It's for our act, but...
CAUTION: PETTING
After finding marine geologists in my chocolate pudding, I'd rather be a Frenchman and insult my wife...
CAUTION: DECADENCE
Beverly Cleary's Ramona is a popular teen, but she's having a nervous breakdown. And her best friend...
CAUTION: STUDENT-TEACHER AFFAIR
I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, amid tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) cops...
CAUTION: COYOTE SEX
In a Mormon future, my baby climbs a tree and spontaneously disintegrates! I try repotting, but...
CAUTION: BAD PARENTING
I dream over & over of the same place, time, & woman. We fall in love. Strangely, I'm the one who gets pregnant...
Four versions of an underwater meeting between lovers, one terrestrial, one marine...
CAUTION: ORAL SEX
I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again...
CAUTION: CHILD SOLDIERS
Donne, in Paris, was alarmed by a vision of his wife holding a dead baby. At that hour, in England, his wife...
You say you're leaving me. I go to grab an ice pick to stab you, but my hand
freezes to the ice block on the stair--I dare not even dream of murder. Since...
CAUTION: RESPONSE TO SPOUSAL SUICIDE
I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is...
All my life, from age three or four, I've dreamed of being a young monk named Stefan
somewhere in southern Europe. And aspects of his short life have shaped my own...
CAUTION: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat...
A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now...
I'm a giant wolf with a human girlfriend. A formula says I must shrink until my paws are 128 times
the volume of her feet. But I'll still be way too big for sex! Eight seems more like the right volume...
CAUTION: HORNY WOLF, MATH, CLIMACTIC PUN
We save a mouse from a man who claims he eats them. Later I dream I am the mouse...
A girl and two cybersnakes are clever but murderous. But
when apart, they're not mean at all! Not sin--synergy...
How exactly did I acquire a mother-in-law snooping on my phone calls, when I don't have a wife?
I love a cute vampire. She's willing to go on a diet. Even so, do I have enough blood to spare?
I'm abducted by scaly alien mercenaries. But halfway to their ship, we get stuck. As we
wait and talk, I find I like them. The problem's their boss--a rich, spoiled human...
A woman with two teenagers breaks in and says she's my ex-wife and they're my kids.
I'm in my twenties; I CAN'T have teenage kids. And I have no ex-wife! Just my girlfriend Cassandra.
Forty years later it all makes sense. It's not about me then, but John now...
CAUTION: ADULT THEMES--TRULY STUPID ADULT THEMES. E.S.P., TOO.
The full moon rises: I become Weregirl, do the Moondance, and gnaw open the lock on my heart...
CAUTION: MOONING
An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero...
I'm three women at once! We marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher,
and a magic talking cat. But cops raid our furry commune...
CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, TEEN SEX, BAD COPS
After Myrna’s husband died, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered...
I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain...
I wished I could kiss my son farewell. That week, Ethel called. "I dreamed Ned kissed you, not me!
I was hurt. He laughed like anything and kissed me too..."
Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
A joyous day with a strange woman who seems not to be his wife, until he touches her hand and knows...
A woman unreachable, in dream, drowning in the bed, fish-gasping, scissoring, while her man oblivious...
DREAM: I'm in the White House. Nixon blows his nose on the curtains! I think "despite his crudity, he reached out to China."
DAY: my wife Ann has a cold--she's Nixon! The dream concedes she has private flaws, but she's pioneered dream research...
After asking "Am I ready to say yes to someone new?" I dreamed I met my old love...
I dream I don't love my girlfriend, I just confuse non-abusive treatment with love....
Keats met two winged lovers nesting in the woods: Eros and Psyche, the last Olympians, worshipless...
I dream I'm jamming with a girl in red--she sings a line, I echo or challenge it, she sings another. Fun! Who is she?
I wake realizing the band I saw before sleep, Ogie Yosha, had that back-and-forth style... but no female singer. Sigh!
A friend calls. "Didn't you love the lead singer, isn't she cute?" Whaaat? She wasn't there! Until... later that night.
CAUTION: POSSIBLE E.S.P.
My love and I steal the only onion in the world! To make our getaway we sail off the edge of the earth...
While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love
with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another...
CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we...
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore...
On a trip, lonely, I induced dreams about my fiancé Steve, hoping I could visit him
out-of-body. On the one night I succeeded, he abruptly felt my presence while awake...
Martial-arts student Parvati just won't fight the teacher she loves (too much!)--
not even for her final exam. Instead she gets a rotary saw and...
A deer-girl turns into a talking mare. We make love. Then, relaxed, she
leads me over a pass from suburban isolation into a wider social world...
CAUTION: TALKING HORSE SEX
I dreamt I stepped on my engagement ring and crushed its pearl. Next I dreamt ink stained it.
Then I dreamt it fell in the sea, and the brine dissolved it. Then the telegram came: my fiancé...
When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum,
she also bares a human-supremacist plot...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM
My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets...
CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY
My detective lover warned me, "Stay away!" Now I'm trapped. Dare I follow the lion over the edge?
My boyfriend and I are beings with pinkish joints...
CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES
Will you walk in the fields, love? / Let us be gone.
The tall grass will wave to thee / Fairest one...
My friend the Polygamous Pilot is up in an ice-storm, hanging powerlines on the sky, when...
Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed.
I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch! Why?
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
Led by a rebel demon into the heart of a Chinese mountain, should I wake the Sleepers in the Cave?
Margherita's dreamworld is lonely, empty, endless. She wanders on foot. Her husband
gets her a bike, a patch kit, and when she crashes, hears her cry for help--while awake...
CAUTION: MARITAL TELEPATHY OR ITALIAN HYPERBOLE?
Two shapeshifters meet, fight and love over the centuries--
and I live out scenes from both their long lives...
In the Cave of the Ant Ambassador, I meet his mate, a beautiful translucent fox named
Raethe. Way happier with her mate (& body!) than in that dream just two months ago...
A Borges story of a were-tigress provokes a dream of a ranch
crawling with weird were-women. Weird, but I LIKE them...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake,
while I dream that a giant raven gives me weird advice...
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!
A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back?
CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT?
I'm single and feeling shy. So I asked my dreams for an image of my true love, and got...
CAUTION: SEX
I'm not ambivalent--I'm confused! I live here by the Rift Zone and I don't. I'm single and not. Two lives!...
I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my
tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead...
CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
Friends, and lovers, and some who got away. And the big question mark in the future...
As Roger, I can't get enough of Tina, though I know she lies and steals. After she vanishes with
my leather jacket, I hunt for her. Spot her shoplifting, and I want to catch her, but let go at last...
I'm sitting in a car teetering in the front row of a theater balcony. By me, R. is licking a cherry-
flavored sucker. As the film crew yells "Roll it!" my foot slips on the brake and I do...
Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be fallout from slavery...
CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
A spell kills off nearly all humanity and mutates the rest of us. Now I'm a satyr living in a co-op home with
unicorns, dryads, cattaurs, and shy vampires. Thing is, I prefer the Apocalypse to what came before...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
I meet two witch sisters. Little sister and I magically power a flying saucer. She gives me a tour
of this vast, ruined city. My life here is happy, but it doesn't look good for civilization as a whole...
I dreamed my lover was metal inside. I was sure it meant he had no passion.
I told him. Why did he bitterly ask me to stare into my dream like a mirror?
CAUTION: TROUBLED RELATIONSHIP
Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor...
CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
A puzzle-game of eyes and mirrors and shadows starts revealing the players' deepest secrets...
Compulsively honest spirit-women with waterjugs invade my friend's house.
I wake to find my girlfriend's obsessing on hair loss. To calm her, I babble about limb loss...
and wake again to find she was a dream too.
A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and...
CAUTION: UGH!
When I was being battered, I dreamed where it would end
if I didn't leave: dead wife, shot husband...
CAUTION: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
After moving in with Gemina, Matt suddenly had erectile dysfunction. He asked
his dreams why. He dreamt he was a kid being bullied by his big sister Cindy...
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
After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness...
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
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...
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...
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
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
While I study how humans went extinct, my
daughter happily splashes in the sea...
Divers made of ice win the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. But
I think they cheated! I seek my friend the Sphinx...
By a midnight lake, I comfort an abused girl in the mud. But two figures with long knives loom...
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 had to sell my horse Shadow, but I missed him so much I painted him. As I finished, a strange impulse led me...
I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man named...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
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...
On a cruise to Catalina Island, I find friends, a boyfriend and a magical sea of color...
An alien is taking over our world, and I feel so helpless that even when I wake I want to just forget the dream...
My friend Tanya tries hard to save her marriage, but in her dreams Isidora Duncan,
Carl Jung, even the gods themselves warn her to face their deep incompatibility...
The card of caring, caregiving, and compassion...
The card of love. I'm not sure what genders the lovers are, but no matter...
That moment when you recognize a kindred spirit, and realize he or she feels that way too...
Well, Tarzan and Jane are living in suburbia now, but though Tarzan's given up so much, Jane complains...
Ted died of CO2 poisoning in Hong Kong. His mom dreamed he came to tell her
it was painless. To prove he was real, he told her...
The Conference on Love has two sexy speakers. One says
"my teacher's stalking me" but she clings to him. Love? Hate? Both?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM--but what are these two exhibiting?
While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a cute, gentle moth-girl.
But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? Mustn't we?
CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
Teresa mistrusts men. Her best friend Sabina comes on to me in front of Teresa, who blames me...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BETRAYAL, GENDER PARANOIA
That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah.
That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders...
An alien tiger and his human girlfriend herd me to their house
and show me a cube of raw flesh... but why?
I dreamed my husband's ship headed for India, but a 'tin fish'
sank it with just one casualty--him. I rushed down to the dock...
Our band's touring Titan. Road trip blues: diners, feuds, romances. Have I been chasing the wrong girl?
Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties.
Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures
like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake...
I saw the Titanic go down and people struggling frantically in the water. After my second nightmare I told my wife...
I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting
as well as puns) with a playful but scratchy cat...
I was walking on an endless plain, upright and tense, walking beside you,
hurrying. What were we doing on the burning plain? What war...
I'm an exchange student at the Solar System's best university for
the magic arts; my classmates are methane-breathing foxtaurs...
I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war...
CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS
In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
A unicorn wades in the shallows to meet a mermaid.
Are they lovers now, or just headed that way?...
Jealous of newlyweds, I grind my teeth. But the Ice Age ground the Sierra's granite teeth, and they're lovelier for it...
A lipstick poem for that stickiest of holidays...
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but
fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters
sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul...
CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
I volunteered to meet him underground. He held me underwater and slammed into me. I nearly drowned, yet...
CAUTION: ROUGH SEX
I found myself in a whole pride of cat-people like me, each one representing some side of me...
Kingsford meets a girl who burns herself as a protest. K flips out! Rants instead of helps...
CAUTION: RANT MIDWAY YOU'RE BETTER OFF SKIPPING
Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
I dream I find a few 'extinct' watercats--in a slum! They talk. They say I'm one of them,
brainwashed to think I'm human. I wake, go to a dinner, and hear a tale of... watercats!
I only meet my wolf-soulmate in recurrent dreams...
CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES
I'm a weremaid, able to pass as human but growing a tail in water. I meet a cute but sad girl,
and deduce she may be like me--just in the closet. Worse! Turns out she thinks she's a freak...
CAUTION: DAMAGE FROM CLOSETING
I dream ESP isn't just for oneself.
A romance between a wolf singer & a deer guitarist.
I'm furry too, and better accept it!
I dreamed my husband told me he'd been in a car crash and was in a frozen ditch not visible
from the road near our house. I woke and called 911 who found him just twenty minutes later...
My girlfriend and I ride out the Great Flood in the White Submarine,
but there are romantic complications. Some things never change...
Seeking a mate? Mutual attraction and having much in common aren't enough--
it's equally vital to learn what you don't have in common...
My sister's fiancé Billy died a year ago. I didn't realize how deep the grief ran till I dreamed...
I wake up praying for love--and then realize my wish is contradictory, and revise it to...
A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary.
Still, such a treasure-trove of kindred spirits! Can I find a witch to love?
CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY...
Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME
Nancy Friday describes a kind of weak guy disturbingly like me--I think chronic illness has...
After watching the sex film Emmanuelle with my sister (we both like girls) I dream
she & I & Emmanuelle are in bed together--and I learn a little something about denial...
CAUTION: DREAM INCEST; AWKWARD NONSEXUAL INSIGHTS
A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier?
A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful opportunist, and they disentangle their lives...
CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE
I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the Oracle Harper's secret pool,
into the jaws of Leviathan and the joys of lucid flight, shifting from male to female
and gay to straight--till I meet the Dragonfly People themselves...
CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID SEX CULT!
A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real...
My cat dissolves in the shower. I follow her to a telepathic world. I want to stay, but can I?...
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."