It's OK to be a sex object as long as you're also a subject. What's no fun is being an abject...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL FEARS/SHYNESS
Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
A whole convention of adults abused as kids shows me how hard it is to hide the damage...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
I fall in love, defying kidnappers, dwarf-tossers and
Toulouse-Lautrec, until I become a time-traveling bunny...
CAUTION: SEX, SHAMANISM, DWARF-TOSSING (LAUTREC!)
I'm addicted to faraway trains. I quit cold turkey, but I shake the house down! Junkie poltergeists...
CAUTION: DRUG ADDICTION. SORT OF.
I lay on a beach with Nina. I stuck a shell on her body and designed a fabulous line of prosthetics...
Adrian and Jennifer and Michelle try very very hard to get my attention, but I'm a bit oblivious...
CAUTION: SEXUAL STUPIDITY
A bizarre little dream proving just how physical the impact of a dream is on the body...
When I was a kid I was already a mystic and knew what Captain Ahab was REALLY after, but...
A small, clear, simple precognitive dream... and its un-small, un-clear, un-simple cause...
A sexy comedian and her troubles down the drain.
A dream that turned out to be true six days later,
and again in a different way six YEARS later...
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?
I go on a date who seems bored till she takes me to the Alertness Gym...
Writer Alice Miller tried painting her childhood monsters. I tried it and got surprise messages...
CAUTION: FRANK LANGUAGE
A late-night conversation with the proud developer
of a new concept in South Asian convenience dining...
In a suburban alley, I learn how much of an artistic coward I've been...
In spring the young allergic longs for the lusty world but cannot join the All-Orgy...
I keep dreaming of this path or road arching up into the sky...
My sister Althea decides my house has demons, and hires an exorcist who botches things, so that...
I camp in the Amazon but in the morning find I slept on top of something disturbing...
The real Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to step in
and explain dreams to the waking world...
My intuition led me to a panel discussion of women artists, just to hear one single sentence...
A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters...
CAUTION: CARTOON SEX
Sex-and-violence is one word in America, because our ratings system TEACHES us to link them...
CAUTION: THE F-WORD AND SENSIBLE IDEAS
I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
I'm a schoolkid in the future who finds an ancient book the censors somehow missed...
A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge.
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 guardian angel who's a sort of kindly, sacred succubus...
CAUTION: SEX
The joyful animal-angel I feel myself to be in my happiest dreams.
In one long night I hike out of Obligation Hell
all the way to Inner-Freedom Heaven...
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...
My loud, spiky, tailed angel of change and potential, and
my calm, skeptical devil of gradualism--a star-nosed mole...
What makes so much animation all feel the same? Temptations inherent in the medium...
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?
I was a pregnant dancer on the Fertility Goddess's new TV show, but I was mad at her...
I dream of Beren and Luthien happy and mortal in their forest, and wake to find...
I think Yeats was wrong to use the Sphinx to symbolize the brutal post-Christian era he foresaw...
I fall in love with a diplomat from a hive mind. Am I luring her into dangerous individuality?
On an alien world I meet a judge from the newly discovered
galaxy of Antlia, and learn distance can lend objectivity...
Ariana's a brilliant young writer, but how she plans to escape her family is alarming...
CAUTION: TEEN PREGNANCY, SKIN MAGS, HORRIBLE CAREER PLANNING
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
Why has no one noticed that the side effects of a household appliance violate all known physics?
I'm a hobbit in Silicon Valley, stalking Ring-wraiths down El Camino. But one of them's stalking me...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, HYPNOTIC GASLIGHTING
Golden Gate Park's arboretum, in San Francisco, is home to feral cats, skunks, raccoons, people...
I dreamed that as a kid I saw two girls making love in the bushes, awakening my own
sexual orientation. Later, I saw the bigger picture, which wasn't about sex at all...
CAUTION: SEX
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...
ch.2 of UNICORN TAG, a set of nine linked dreamtales.
I married my childhood crush. Happy, till I overhear her tell my sister what she really thinks of...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
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 lacks hands to hold the centaurs...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION
The Engineers make Eden... logical. But the blimps go blind, and a demon
goes viral. How can I escape the their ultra-efficient hell?
Why this site? Because if I'm around when you see my dream art, I feel like THIS...
Hypnotherapy provokes nightmares of body-part shops, secret libelers, and madmen in space...
I was a reptilian archeologist, a million years from now.
What I dug up at the beach threatened my marriage...
I'm a parade route. A group of child artists walks all over me. But their soles are bare, so I don't mind...
Jaundiced dreams of an art show spell out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art...
A burglar-girl and I spy on the neighbors together and we learn a weird Zen lesson on commitment...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
We're orphans learning to fly by night, when others can't see and define us...
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...
JFK and Marilyn as our gender archetypes point out the real gender gap: lifespan, not votes!
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, BUT I GUESS IT'S TOO LATE NOW
I have amnesia. Plus, I'm dead. But I have this great NASA job! Only there's a saboteur...
CAUTION: SNOTTY ABOUT CHRISTIANS AGAIN
I'm a Puertorriqueña who falls for an Anglo doctor, but he's not what he seems...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX, CREEPY GUY, VICIOUS FIGHT
How I found out what I really wanted at the bisexual ball. Really, I'm not disappointed...
CAUTION: OH COME ON, READ THE TITLE
A party for me and my shadow, to celebrate that we haven't killed each other, just HATE each other...
An old friend's awakening from anorexic asexuality. Puberty at 30? And wait a minute... is she me?
The modern Aztec Empire is as bad as Anglos toward other Indians, for it's not poverty that hurts...
I erase my sexual tape, and start over. Am I male, female, gay, straight? Uh-oh! What SPECIES?
CAUTION: MESSY SEXUAL BOOBOOS
Allied submarines attack the giant Nazi toddler who's hunting us with sonar, occupying my playroom...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND GUILT
I asked my dreams why my back hurt. They told me: pregnancy, marsupial pouches, snapping turtles...
I dream I'm being slandered by the leaders of a dream organization! Turns out it's quite true...
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...
I dream I've carried a photo with me 17 years, but now... I BAKE it. The next day, I meet...
Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe...
The Ice Hotel, where all my selves are sealed. Can we thaw Einstein? Balolokong the Rainsnake says...
After a day of enduring reverse sexism, a silly dream of giant banana slugs turns out to be psychic...
CAUTION: ANTIMALE SEXISM
Lily & Wayan have simultaneous dreams of bizarre quarrels over seating bankers at picnic tables...
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
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
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
Beagle's fantasies, from The Last Unicorn to The Innkeeper's Song, closely resemble
my dreams. The ways we differ say more about our spiritual orientation than about our art...
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!
I don't know beans about right action, so Kokoro, master chef
of the Bean Bar, teaches me the stages of true mastery...
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...
I heard a noise out my window. I looked out, and saw something strange...
A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied...
Anti-ideological rant calling experience water and belief... ice.
My take on IQ, racism, Murray and Herrnstein's notorious book, and the theory of multiple intelligence.
As an (ex)child prodigy it's not theoretical for me: broken hearts, broken trust, broken ribs...
CAUTION: LONG WORDS, RAMPANT ELITISM, GENIUS SHOPTALK
A human pinball game played in the dark, with bells for stoppers, sorting people into a Gaussian bell-curve...
A shy woman's belt slowly comes alive, but like most snakes, it has weak eyes. Would glasses help?...
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 wants me to help rob a bank, so she can
cut off her breasts and be a great opera singer...
My friend Beryl's ghost makes mad love to me--just long enough to swipe my Kundalini energy...
CAUTION: SUCCUBISM?
I'm at an all-geek banquet! We're all shy; we just can't do
smalltalk. Then the hostess explains why she chose us...
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
As I hike across the tundra to win a bet with God, I realize I've been subtly betraying my dreams...
A sex-ghost appears in my bed, but when overstimulated,
she tends to fade out. Bad reception!...
CAUTION: SEX
I'm a fairy queen at the beach, chasing a girl who's a strong swimmer. Yep, she swims beyond the buoys...
CAUTION: BAD LESBIAN PUNS
In the future, books morph as they crawl round the web, till just the popular bits are left...
CAUTION: YOU TOO COULD BE CENSORED
I love a girl who wants to settle in a radioactive jungle, a scar from an ancient war. Stay or go?
I'm a girl being stalked. I get drastic--scrunch up the universe & shake it out! And is THAT enough?
CAUTION: ANXIETY, GUILT, POSSIBLE APOCALYPSE
Idiotically, I bet I can escape an atomic bomb on my bike. Maybe if I ignore stoplights...
CAUTION: IRRESPONSIBLE WEAPONS USE
Two unarmed sisters on bikes easily defeated a dragon, but in a
rematch he killed them, and all other challengers. What changed?
DAY: I bike across San Francisco writing down what I actually see.
DREAM: I'm an abused English heiress with a dangerous alien artifact...
CAUTION: HAUNTED BY CHILD ABUSE
I'm Bill Cosby's wife, finding it hard to cook for him without a stove or fridge...
CAUTION: SLANDER, I HOPED. I HOPED WRONG.
A bizarre marathon, and the Princess is the prize. But she doesn't WANT to be, so she sets out...
CAUTION: BLOODY BIRD
I try to fly in my birdsuit before I have feathers! Can I? Starring the cast of Three's Company...
CAUTION: LAME SEXUAL INNUENDO TYPICAL OF THREE'S COMPANY
How a centaur tames birds in the Sierra Nevada...
Why's Jade the bitter artist throw me at her happier, calmer daughter? Wait, is Jamie the new ME?
CAUTION: SEX
A dream-voyage round the world on the Black Current, only to wake up back in my animal village...
CAUTION: GORILLA MARRIAGE
My crazy friend Wayne goes bowling for busses with a black egg. Wait! Crazy? Or... predictive?
CAUTION: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE BEHAVES DISGRACEFULLY
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...
I dream a sexy softball pitcher strikes everyone out. Next day, my friend brings her home, and...
CAUTION: LESBIAN DATING
I'm a Fast-Food Detective tracking down a kidnapper-sorceress.
I find castles, monsters, magic carpets... and unexpected love.
CAUTION: SEX
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
A sexy pool-playing friend in a short skirt leans over an
invisible, virtual-reality pooltable, but I'm blind to...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, TRULY CLUELESS GUY
A bubble of spacetime distortion lands in an awkward place,
making people mistrust the unlucky recipient...
Quiet Blondie seemed sane enough, especially compared to
her driven, talkative friend Crazy, until...
CAUTION: NUDITY, A LITTLE BLOOD
Some men get squeamish about menstrual blood, but this girl's plight was extreme...
CAUTION: EWWWW!
What I saw in the river bordering the land of the dead...
CAUTION: GORE, BUT RESTRAINED, TASTEFUL GORE
Would the Revolutionaries in the Basement really blow up the Committee of Idealists upstairs?
CAUTION: MAD BOMBERS! WELL, GRUMPY ONES
Throw a dream-crystal, or dangle it by a thread, and it'll point the way to go...
CAUTION: NUDITY
In a world where respectable men wear masks, an old, old man rebels in the crudest way he can...
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
My therapist changes into a good ol' boy? I can handle that. But that State Board of Kibitzers behind him...
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
Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode?
I'm James Bond. Captured and questioned, I lie to the enemy: the senators of the
Committee on Intelligence Activities. Till I see myself through their eyes...
CAUTION: SPY SEX, SPY MENTALITY
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 was in the Stanford Bookstore and saw this strange visual pun across the room... or did I?
CAUTION: MILD 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...
Flu. Ow, cramps! But that night I dream of a miner's rebellion against our fat-cat boss. Which side am I on?
So exactly how is posting all these dreams different from crawling naked inside your screen?.
CAUTION: NUDITY
In drawing class I was supposed to be studying perspective, but I went beyond the box...
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
Boys still get portrayed as businesslike in sex, girl as floating orgasmic jellyfish. Time for a sex change...
CAUTION: SEX AND LIMP RUBBER ARMS
A girl in my dance class stretched like making love to the air. But when I drew her, a black wolf...
CAUTION: WEREWOLF SEX
When girls get their clits cut, even the UN takes notice. But mutilate boy genitals, and... big yawn!
CAUTION: TALK ABOUT SEX AND VIOLENCE--BUT HEY, IT'S ONLY BOYS
Women who run with the wolves? Ha! In Mongolia, the only ones who can beat lightning-demons are...
Bradbury's Mars was based on his life in Venice, California. What worlds grow out of my San Francisco?
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?...
A sexy encounter with two robotic girls hopping a night train outside Portland...
CAUTION: THREESOME
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
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 ...
We all wear magic beltbuckles. Twist one--your body stretches from squat to willowy. Except mine...
CAUTION: SEX, BODY-IMAGE DISTORTION
At last my girlfriend and I manage to peel off the Brown Dress of Shame, and ...
CAUTION: SEXUAL HEALING
I meet William F. Buckley and his beloved pet pig. Only
the hog's a live H-Bomb, and the leash is a trigger...
CAUTION: REVOLTING GUY, PET, AND ISSUE
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.
Princess Chinchilla and I use an umbrella to escape the Wizard. Now to escape the Dream Researchers!...
A perfectionist gardener builds perfect planterboxes while his seedlings starve. And so I left the burbs...
If you dream, don't drive. If you drive, don't dream. A public safety message from the other world.
My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die...
CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES
A woman who posed as a Starfleet officer discovers other frauds on board. She blows the whistle on them...
In a world with a dozen intelligent species, dominated by dinosaurs,
I get in trouble for publishing a kinky tale of forbidden mammal love...
My friends destroy all my old films and give me a 'new' one--but it's from 1900! Then I wake to find...
On the beach, seated at The Piano, director Jane Campion warns
"Avoid Hollywood, they'll snip away at your vision..."
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
A portrait of Kettle Belly Baldwin, in Heinlein's story GULF... an archetype of unapologetic genius.
A Holy Cardinal enters my bedroom and demands I kiss his ring. I suggest something he can kiss, and...
CAUTION: CHRISTIAN MEGALOMANIA, PAGAN RUDENESS
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...
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
Not a dream image, as far as I can recall. Just looked like it should be...
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...
A stylized cat with a logarithmic body. I just like drawings with hints of fractality...
I glue cat-legs on my snaky friend, despite the scare talk
from Christians sure that snakes never change...
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...
My writer-friend Cecy will do anything to get published. Anything? Oh, believe me, ANYTHING...
CAUTION: BONDAGE, not to mention POSTAGE
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.
Fear anorexia? Gain weight, yet stay slender--be a centaur, like model Paulina Porizkova...
CAUTION: NUDITY; BODY IMAGE/ANOREXIA ISSUES
Like a long molecule floating in darkness, this dream creature could loop and link to itself...
CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, LANGUAGE
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
Wise advice from a funny looking centauress at a nude beach...
CAUTION: CRUDE NUDE
I meet a tragic heroine--great heart, rotten luck. But I open her magic sword and find a bad chip...
An identity earthquake that just wouldn't stop. I transform half a dozen times, and so does everyone else...
A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil...
CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION?
People SAY they like realistic characters they can identify with, but they don't ACT like it...
Why did I sign on as a crewman on the Cheapship, a freighter
that's falling apart? And yes, I do mean that literally...
I'm a cheetah working as a baker in Coconino County, Arizona, haunted by Krazy Kat...
I was hot tubbing and flirting... so how'd I end up as Chelsea Clinton running for office?
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
I'm in school on a chimp scholarship and it's time for my final exam...
Two giants wrestle in the Chinese mountains. Who'll win, Red or Yellow? But when I wake...
My neighbor thinks I'm sleeping with his wife, who he abuses. Only I think she may be me...
CAUTION: IMPLIED BATTERING
I find myself driving a speeding car down a freeway--in reverse. No, not reverse gear...
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 finally learn the difference between just getting off the ground
and the mastery of true flight--but there's a heavy price...
I'm warily crossing an avalanche chute in winter, when my worst fear happens. Then the slide speaks up...
I fall for a circus girl. Her brother is jealous, so all the dwarves show up with guns...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
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...
I was hunting edible fungi in Foothill Park near Palo Alto when I saw this...
What my home town will become, if you fools keep burning gas and spewing CO2...
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'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...
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 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...
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.
A spiral dream-instrument I'm building, that's easier to play than a piano or guitar, and a lot snakier...
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 dream of exhibitionist girls playing with breast milk turns out not to be symbolic, but psychic...
CAUTION: BREASTS
Sexy frustrating dreamlets with a message, not about my unconscious, but about my CONSCIOUS...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
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
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain has a challenge--draw an image upside
down. Better or worse? So I drew this with a mouse, then flipped it and found...
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...
It's the Vietnam era; my draft board tolerates only a secret quota of COs. I decide not to tolerate THEM...
That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one.
That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and...
Suddenly I see the notion of "cool" as just another Euro theft. Being cool shouts "I'm insecure"...
Calvin Coolidge takes over the White House and invites
his rich fossil friends over for a bath and a song...
A surreal statue of a naked body spilling out of the wall as if someone's caught between dimensions...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A mad gunman breaks in and shoots at me, but I start him talking, and learn what's eating him...
I dream an economist admits not only that eco-regs pay off, but that economic theory is faulty. Dream on!
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
The pecking order (goring order?) of cows explains why our leaders stink...
Coyote invades an abstract painting to expose why the art world loves that high-concept, impersonal art...
A shapeshifter caught in the moment of transformation, just as her arms unfold into smoky wings...
CAUTION: NUDITY
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...
My friend Zooop taught me to crayon onto heated paper--it's vivid, dreamlike...
A cricket actress I know makes it into the Dynasty of the Gods! Or is it the TV soap "Dynasty"?...
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
A spinoff band sues the original group for playing their own songs and using their own name...
Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily...
A man learns to hop between time-branches, but like all transportation, this has epidemiological risks...
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...
Cartoonist Robert Crumb just turns off all taboos while drawing. A learnable technique...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, CARTOON SEX
The only man in the Miss America Japanese Tea Ceremony Swimsuit Pageant, I learn a tearful lesson...
CAUTION: DYSFUNCTIONAL FLIRTING
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...
Gunsel kills my friend Crystal in a flaming aircar crash. But that's not enough--he comes back, and...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
How Bach sounded to me after seeing Fantasia...
Everyone's joining the Cult of Blindness. My mother signed up. I'm tempted; it's
the only way to find a decent date in this town. But this fat gatekeeper objects...
I find the feminist principle "the personal is political" leads to some alarming consequences for privacy...
CAUTION: POLITICS
I live in a cupola atop a Victorian house in the Haight-Ashbury, but that's not the City out my windows...
That broccoli business made the new pope controversial, but when he goes off to find his girlfriend...
CAUTION: CATHOLIC SACRILEGE I'M SURE
Studies confirm that prayer can heal. So can curses harm? Yet the fear of curses fueled the witch hunts...
CAUTION: DISTURBING IMPLICATIONS, IF TRUE
That day, I met a wildly neurotic therapist; that night, I met a woman forced to get discount
ob/gyn exams from her stingy husband's doctor buddy... can you say "boundary violation?"
CAUTION: SEXUAL HUMILIATION
A witch with a messed-up mind makes me her sex slave. But what if I can bypass her brain?...
CAUTION: SEX
If you can't tell what it is from the thumbnail, cheer up. It's indescribable full-size, too.
The new smart beds stimulate your dreams--but how to program them? We can't even manage VCRs...
In the far future, I relive Odysseus' tale. To save my life I must give up realistic hope, and focus on...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTERS
At the Ball, I feel up women, who idly enjoy me like... hors d'oeuvres! Wait, is that what I wanted?
CAUTION: WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS
How my dad got onto the board of directors and made the organization his own...
I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong...
CAUTION: YUCK
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...
High school reporters spy on a college dance. But the real action's not where they say...
CAUTION: MAKING OUT, AND I DON'T GET ANY
I encounter a powerful psychic force stopping me from dancing... or is that what it's after?
I was an anorexic fox-girl, till this phrase galvanized me. Now I pump iron and eat what I like, and...
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, muņeca?" and...
CAUTION: CONVERSATIONAL FETUSES
I tried to date a nice young butterfly but was stopped by a monster who was... my own wings?
CAUTION: UNDERAGE BUG
On Thursdays, in Tungusia, looking at your watch could save your life...
CAUTION: DEFAMES SIBERIANS
I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow?
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NUDE MONSTERS
Normal people want someone complementary. Weirdos want someone like them. Why? Economics!...
My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure...
My sister gives birth during a killer heatwave. The baby's dead. I play with the body, like a chimp...
CAUTION: GROSS
In a darkened room of deaf women watching a slideshow,
I find no one can hear me in either English or Sign...
Evangelists pester me until I get so mad I make an on-the-spot deal with...
CAUTION: MAD AT CHRISTIANS AGAIN
I'm in a hotel by the Great Salt Lake. Deer roam the halls and lap at the drinking fountain...
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
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...
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...
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
We desert-hobbits break through to a world of jungle giants who
see differently from us. Will they believe us about the UFOs?
I'm in the bed of a pickup truck crossing Sonora, insisting to a farmworker "Deserts have spiritual value..."
I don't have an erection. I have two. But how can my brain register feelings from an extra organ it's not built for?
CAUTION: PHALLIC SYMBOLISM? OR SOMETHING ELSE?
The clues point toward my own anima as the murderer, but Detective Dee finds the even odder truth...
Body after body is peeled away revealing truth inside truth...
CAUTION: GROTESQUE
I built a sex-maze to reprogram businesspeople, but I only grasp its meaning when I fuck City Hall...
CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE, RADICAL POLITICS
I stumble into the middle of a dream conversation--on ghosts, tiaras and pigs--
and struggle to figure out what what on earth we were already talking about...
My sister & her new guru tests me psychologically--only it looks like a test to destruction...
CAUTION: EMOTIONAL CRUELTY
A disturbing dream of my sister and her best friend turns out to be warning me of a sex secret...
CAUTION: INCEST TENSION, SURREAL SEX, CHEATING
A catalog of American addictions and the absurd distinctions we make between them....
CAUTION: EMBARRASSING DRUG LIST
Our Appalachian town revolts against fundamentalists, but brainwashing takes time to undo...
CAUTION: SEX AND INJUSTICE
A plague begins on terraformed Mars and spreads to Earth. Population biology made it inevitable...
CAUTION: POPULATION CRASH (OFFSTAGE)
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...
My paleontologist mom can scuttle like a lizard, so why can't she manage a dinosaur gait?
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'm trapped in a nature documentary about mating displays among humans...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, PBS NARRATION, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS
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...
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
Tarot with Dolly Parton. But I piss her off. "Men! You think I'm dumb, cuz of my tits!" She fixes THAT...
CAUTION: STUPID BREAST HUMOR BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT GRUESOME
A self-portrait, or it was going to be, till the songbird and fish upstaged me...
I'm running along a freeway, pacing a cheetah. But that domestic cat
and her kittens can't keep up. Wait, why are we slowing for them?
In a parallel world, a visionary's building the first plane only now. I'm his assistant. But I don't WANT...
A doorway not taken (for the most sensible of reasons) provoked a magical dream of what I missed...
Lured to a parallel, feudal world by a marriage-vow, I'm trapped in my double's arrogant, twisted mind...
The friends of a touchy aviator have to kidnap her just to give her a present... and WHAT a present...
A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world...
I'm just old enough to recall forests of fishbones and dragonflies on every roof...
From Baffin Bay to suburbia, dragons are everywhere... if you look with a dragon's eye...
I'm dancing on stage, in behavioral space. But right in the middle of the stage, erupt these... teeth?
A young dragon, raised as human, is finally setting out to see the world on dragon-terms...
I project I'll make a lot more money soon. Good, now I can support all my lazy friends! Wait...
While we're making crop-circles in the field of psychotherapy, my hypnotist and I start to argue...
A house with a fire-ghost infestation. Worse than termites!
And the ghosts tell me it's all my fault....
This dream's not about a man whose dream lovers keep materializing till the bed overflows.
This dream's about who those lovers are and what the neighbors will think...
CAUTION: SEX
I'm the composer Schumann, till a nightmare jumps me and I wake. And wake. And wake...
CAUTION: MALE NUDITY
The police confiscate my therapist's copies of my dreams, and try me for obscenity! So why do I help?...
Are dreamworlds grim, on average? Do our dreams just express fears, or try to SOLVE our problems?
I meet two women in dream-prison. One's a giant, one a miniature. A fairy? She says, 'No, I'm..."
A novel on a modern woman called to become a shaman
echoes my real life way too closely for comfort...
Fighting vampire archers is risky enough WITH proper armor! And all I have is dream-journals...
CAUTION: MENTIONS BATTERING
An experimental helmet knocks me out. I'm groggy, miserable, till I learn what it did to others...
Sprague De Camp says religions seduce us with emotional comfort. But is dreamwork religion or science?
Artists have their own strange culture, and we can unintentionally mislead therapists unfamiliar with us...
CAUTION: THERAPESE
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...
It's not easy to get a California driver's license, ever since the Dept. of Motor Vehicles went Jungian...
A nightmare turns to a sex dream turns to a weird demonstration just how out-of-body a dream can get...
CAUTION: (PUZZLING) SEX
I was on one of those package dream-tours--an hour here, a scene there. But then in Patagonia...
CAUTION: CREEPING PAGANISM
The Duke complains things just aren't what they were. As I hear what he liked, I'm increasingly...
Sitting in an eviction-lawyer's waiting room, of all places, I discover my next artistic direction...
CAUTION: SEX/GENDER ISSUES