America isn't the Melting Pot. It's the Humping Pot...
CAUTION: THE BEAST WITH 300,000,000 BACKS
Mute, paired images, contrasting life with the death we're spreading. And then finally the dream speaks:
CAUTION: READ THE TITLE AND GO SABOTAGE SOMETHING!
Concerned about my health, I up my fiber intake. But not from the usual sources...
CAUTION: BAD DIETARY ROLE MODEL
I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or...
CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC
My stomach ache is an ectopic pregnancy. The embryo's doomed. Surgery. And I'm a man...
A robed figure crowds a wild horse to a cliff-edge. One's my body, one's my soul. But which?...
A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane...
CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER
I learn to fly, but keep it quiet. Yet aliens still find out, and tell me a truth I didn't want to know...
I dreamed living in a body of flesh is like being trapped on a sinking cruise ship...
CAUTION: NUDITY (but she's just crying, not giving that guy a blowjob, okay?)
What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts
and feelings invade you? When other's bodies invade you, it's molestation...
Night thoughts. Are they eggs? Dreams? Worlds? Phases of the moon?
CAUTION: NEGATIVE BREASTS
I wonder how far I'll go to hide my Egg of Power.... and, I'm afraid, I find out.
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...
I have to care for two gigantic eggs. But I'm at a party where people crack eggs for Slime Races...
Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up...
CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST
In a field in the Central Valley, I face the Terror of California...
CAUTION: FIENDISH LEFTIST PROPAGANDA
After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor...
In a world of hideous haircuts (flagging your politics) I meet a dragon
running for office. But is this real or a dream? Both/neither! It's...
Every year, as Americans get fatter, the fashion gets thinner (and I look more normal)...
We escape three trolls, but then our author Tolkien breaks in
to explain an Elvish word. Now we're really doomed...
A logging war in the northern forests is confused by subjective realities. Am I sure what I see is real?
I'd been reading Francesca Lia Block's I WAS A TEENAGE FAIRY...
CAUTION: NUDITY
An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help?
I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. For the patient's burning from within...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE
I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit.
I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it...
My spirit-wife and I spend our last evening together painting. Not with colors--with emotions...
The Emperor of the Galaxy can't publish his anti-slavery book as himself, so he quits to become a slave...
I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes...
I meet a man who's lived centuries on an all-cannibal diet. He has ethics, though: he sticks to roadkill! Except...
CAUTION: EEEUUGH!
Bad puns link an ecological dream of a forest being murdered by inches, and a dental exam...
In the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross 3 eco-bubbles, beg a
wary deer-taur to splice my spine, help Ariane my childhood crush, and solve
the Dream Equations. Climbing Everest takes not strength but... trust?
Evolution is like baseball--a game of inches, efficiency, constraints. Surely we can do better....
CAUTION: CONTAINS THOUGHT
A woman explains why the subjective rate of change has slowed--we EXPECT life to be different...
Hide-and-seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF...
CAUTION: SEX
A monstrous Kafka beetle grows gradually out of my face. And it's a MESSAGE...
Slightly altered to remove the familiarity, but this is quite real...
I'm a faculty wife bored out of my mind until two students have sex in my yard. I ignore HIM and jump HER...
CAUTION: SEX
I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...)
I fall in love with a sexy T. Rex at the Renaissance Faire. Then things get weird...
CAUTION: DINO ABUSE
A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right?
Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot...
My girlfriend meets my parents. We fly up to sleep under eaves like swallows. "But what if we roll off,
will we fall up into the storm, into space?" Hm. Is my girlfriend's REAL fear... something else?
Downtown San Francisco hides a magic wood full of crested
talking tigers. And I must enter it to live a while...
In ancient Britain, as Christianity moves in, I'm a slave--sailing through centuries, but never free...
A series of family shadows, as I saw them then. These scenes are NOT literal,
is that clear? But the tensions they show were very real...
CAUTION: GRIM! SEXUAL VIOLENCE, INCEST, MUTILATION
A yard sale in a small town turns out to be my family selling porn.
But they want to push more than their sexual values on me...
CAUTION: TWISTED FAMILY, ELEPHANT ABUSE
A sardonic little poster on dating-role reversal with helpful advice...
CAUTION: PHALLUS INVADES PHOTOSHOOT
A group of coolly shameless fauns started teaching me outrageousness in my dreams...
CAUTION: FAUNS LACK INCEST TABOOS
A dream-friend blames me for nothing. I wake, and TWO friends blame me for...
A doe I meet is as horny and shy as me. We're similar: torn between desire and fear...
Then I meet a slacker succubus. She may just let herself get seduced toward freedom...
CAUTION: SEX
A Leonardo style skeletal study of a cat person that grew into more of a character study. I just like her...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
My fever-dreams manifest physically and mess up my whole neighborhood. Seismic inspectors arrive...
While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope.
CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE
I'm in Heaven, but... it's full of Christians! I fight 30,000 angels, but I wanna go right to the top, and...
CAUTION: PAGANISM AND PUGILISM
Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN...
Girl in a red cap, half-asleep in bed, looking either sexy or she has the flu, like I did...
CAUTION: NUDITY
From an ad. I recommend drawing photos as well as live models; some poses, models can't hold!
CAUTION: NUDITY
After a workout, she looks at herself in the mirror, and for once, she LIKES herself...
CAUTION: SHE LIKES HERSELF, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT!
A model clowning--an ephemeral emotional flash
CAUTION: ART-SCHOOL NUDITY
Late in life-drawing class, Evangeline got tired and snuggled into a pillow-nest. She looked so feline...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A pensive leonine woman resting on a tilted rock. A life drawing with certain imaginary spots.
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A sophisticated composition for a sophisticated model. Or at least seasick...
CAUTION: NUDITY, NAUSEA...
Rather than draw the model, I often sketch my classmates in life-drawing. They get so intent!
Just a startling moment when a woman with backlit hair turned incandescent...
Evangeline the model arranged pillows and potted ferns and told us to
"Just picture the pillows as rocks and a ferny cascade." I did...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I was sick again, so I drew a tiny photo in a gym ad, and then realized it was her strange stare I liked...
Shasé liked absurd, impossible poses, and she held them heroically...
CAUTION: SILLY NUDITY
Just what it says.
CAUTION: CARTOON BUTT and GRRL BICEPS
Nina the model's weirdest pose yet, as a TV with rabbit-ear antennae...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
Girl peers out from a satin robe hiding only her face. Look at me! Hide! I know those contradictory feelings.
CAUTION: NUDITY
Evangeline stood before the mysterious portal and shushed us...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A confrontation between the top predators on this planet: Evangeline and her boot...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
In life drawing class, the model built a sort of green island/nest in the sea of grubby students...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred...
A Star Trek future. Our experimental ship is hijacked by illusionists, with us aboard...
On Christmas eve, I ask my dreams what they think of our annual orgy, and...
CAUTION: THE F WORD AND THE C WORD (CAPITALISM)
A sculpted reminder I hung over my desk like Clinton's sign "It's The Economy, Stupid!"...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PRESIDENTIAL MOCKERY
I have 'fire in the belly', so I cheer up--if the magazines are right, I'll be President. But it's just bad food...
CAUTION: BELLYACHING
A book's example of a mathematical savant made me stop and try to do what he did. I can! Can anyone?
I'm a cripple watching a sexy Greek Opera starring Whoopi Goldberg. Then I realize I'm in it...
The Europeans have another great war, killing off their men. Will that break the cycle of violence? Like a...
I have weird, bad luck around dating. Finally I go on a picnic with Page, and the Great Fire begins...
I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight...
I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human.
I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night,
my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups.
I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom.
Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right...
2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
Leaf and me, on our boat in the lost city, from the epic dream FISHERGIRL. My first sketch of the dream...
CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY
I was a girl in love with a five-hearted unicorn stallion. I woke & sewed this dream
portrait/sextoy/reminder. Though since I'm male when awake, I made her a nightmare...
CAUTION: FURRY DREAM SEX
Part an experiment in wild textures, part a "Where's Waldo" game to see if you'd notice my self-portrait...
I'm a monster working in a shopping mall in Stockton, California, when I smell smoke...
CAUTION: FILM NOIR SEX
I'm a woman living in a space habitat. A new Napoleon invades us, and damages our life-support.
I fight him--but I'm attracted, too. We need to ally to fight the second invasion...
Hokusai's wild mad lines inspired me to draw myself his way, floating asleep on the astral sea...
CAUTION: NUDITY
After trying "the Interpretation of Dreams," I meet Floyd Freud, who's attracted to the neo-Nazis...
CAUTION: INSULTS THE MEMORY OF A GREAT GUY
I'm an alien castaway, hiding my wings. But Earth feels like home now! If I could fly here, would I stay?
In a rough part of San Francisco, I climb to the roof of a tower and jump off, but not to kill myself...
My recent attitude changes are so big, I can fly now. Yet I hide them, lie to my family... why?
In Surinam, a whole river falls 600 meters into the sea. I put on a birdsuit and fly into rainbows...
My lesbian twin, who lives in the unemployment line, falls in love with a pushy moose from Brooklyn...
CAUTION: INEPT SEX
My car's idling too fast. After hours of diagnosis, I notice a foot's on the gas! But not my foot...
I'm jogging in Yosemite. A man tells me I'm possessed. There IS something in my shoe...
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
Tibet, 1910. I find a cult whose ancestors manned a radar station that shot down
flying saucers. But were the aliens really hostile? I'm not so sure...
I dreamed our medieval football coaches blamed the ugly Potato Person for all evil...
CAUTION: NUDE POTATO
In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her...
CAUTION: NUDE CABARET
I started life as twins, but slowly we fused. I still have four eyes, though. Then, one day...
A recurring dream of a fourway marriage of animal people. I don't think it's symbolic, but predictive...
CAUTION: FURRY SEX
I visited the first bioengineered fox-person with working thumbs, to see what she thinks of hands...
I don't know if the fox-shepherdess ate all her sheep, or if she herded invisible and quite different things...
I might have been less cowed by the storm-face, if I'd seen it was made of little foxes just like me...
A famous inventor is descended from foxes. Their faces teach me something about beauty and character...
Early Euro and Indian art liked bilateral symmetry; old Japan liked careful asymmetry. I like self-similarity.
The first thing any beginner does with a paint program is behead someone. Why?
CAUTION: PAINFUL SPLINTERS
Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter. But to lure us in, he must know what
we want. But what does Freddy want? If we can find out, we might just lure him, too...
With our ignorability spell, our team plans to free the angry Hick from the
Submerged Court. But the Coyote Girls can see us! Will this really work?
Zooming on freeways--carless levitation! But the Principal tries to punish us. And we resist... don't we?
Demons of fire invade the house, and the Voice of Truth says they can't be killed. What would you do?
I'm in medieval England on a mission from God, but I meet a Priestess on a mission from...well, we argue.
A Scottish ghost leads us on a treasure hunt, then insists we stop to pick up small change. But it adds up...
A woman discovers that her new use for a truck with a telescoping arm has philosophical consequences...
It's nice hearing everyone praise my sex crimes, but I need to pull the dog from the golden horn...
CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE (OBVIOUSLY), GENERAL WEIRDNESS
At a benefit for Rock Psychiatrists, the Spirit of the Convention explains why I can't go on stage yet...
We're interviewing new housemate-candidates. But one is my own Jungian Shadow...
My sister Althea meditates. Her aura gets so quiet that
I mistake her for furniture! I'm that blind to the physical...
CAUTION: ABOUT AURAS
I lose my temper. I don't just fly off the handle--I fly off a cliff and out to sea! Why'd I risk drowning?..
I'm Liza Doolittle on Mars. With Mr. Wells's Time Machine. Lost, in fact. Can I get home? Should I?
I was a closet unicorn. SO closet, I didn't even know what a unicorn was,
till I went to college and met Lindsay, who was half and could pass...
My take on what Georgia O'Keeffe claimed she was up to with those giant flowers...
I win a prize on a gameshow, but collecting is another story, since the show is run from Hell...
Forced to turn gladiator, I learn these slaves think our free world outside is just another game...
Gandhi and I must run barefoot across a burning racetrack miles wide... the Ascetic Desert?
In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For gods aren't the gardeners, they're the crop...
I'm odd kid out in my wizard school till gargoyles raid us, and I puzzle out their tongue, to become...
A mural on how I became a dancer--the day I lost my old
body-image, failed to recognize myself in the mirror...
In older studies at least, women dream of both sexes but men dream largely of men. Just like TV, huh?
CAUTION: YOU'LL NEVER WATCH TV AGAIN
The two commonest sexual orientations have no names, or even concepts! Yet they're obvious, once...
CAUTION: THE TRUTH THAT DARE NOT BE TOLD
My friend Linda and I are walking in the Castro, when a tourist girl jams her tongue in Linda's mouth...
CAUTION: SERIOUS TONGUE
A man dies--his body's chopped up. He ends in Hell. But he's a stubborn guy; he wants his body back. So...
A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find...
I live in a haunted house where ghosts push you to suicide. But they're as tired of it as I am...
Advice of a specialist on the care and feeding of child prodigies, embarrassingly relevant for adult geniuses...
I dreamed I returned to a childhood park and found mostly ruin. But one magical thing survived...
I'm on a women's sports team, and I should be in paradise. But I want more; not love exactly, but...
I date a girl with a mysterious syndrome, but soon I become a monkeyfaced con-man. And SHE becomes...
Gisli had two spirit-wives who told him in dreams how to evade the bounty-hunters after him... for 13 years!
My friend Gitana has a grim view of men--a view that materializes, and starts chasing us...
CAUTION: BURGER FRANCHISE DEMOLITION
My parents pray for my success, and arrange a great learning opportunity for me. Really.
After I visit the crystalline people, a young diamond-wizard
stalks me all the way to my home in the Meat World, and says...
I live in an asylum for fragile psychics. When one man over-uses his talent, he compulsively eats glass...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
A swimming pool game with color-sorted broken glass. It's social, it's fun! The whole family can play!
CAUTION: BLOODY IDIOTS
Hypnotherapy is hopeless with these blind architects flopping all over the cafe, but my flying has improved...
A girl and I climb a half-built tower to get some privacy from my nosy, sneering parents.
But they find us during oral sex, and their scorn melts my girlfriend into a goat...
CAUTION: SEX, HUMILIATION, FAMILY VALUES
God's dance club, the Universe, is shutting down. God broke his promise that we staff could get on stage...
God built 3 dials to check: body, soul, and time. But the Holy Spirit's lazy, only checks one! It's up to us...
I'm a fat guy hired as a temp by some unethical gods. Or are they trying to teach me something?
I dreamt a couple toss out a shabby old hen. But it lays golden eggs! She becomes an eagle and carries me off to...
We're children seeking gold in a fairy wood. We meet some elf-kids,
chase them off, and dig where they played. Then their parents show up...
CAUTION: INTERSPECIES BULLYING
The shy, doggy need for reassurance I often crave from a lover--do I crave a mistress, an owner?...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PILLOW TALK
The old cartoon character Gordo has another girlfriend. But his pets say he only loves the hunt, not her...
I'm a girl in a desert who God tells to preach a new gospel. But the locals, unlike ancient Rome, have guns...
CAUTION: VIOLENT MARTYRDOM
A friend tells me her sex fantasy. We try acting it out, but roleplaying has bizarre effects...
CAUTION: SEX GAMES
The girl I love has a family that'll stop at absolutely nothing to destroy us. But I'll fight for love...
CAUTION: SEX; EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE; MOLESTATION HISTORY
In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear...
There's the watermelon of passion, and then there are the little grapes of fun that foxes eat...
CAUTION: NUDE DANCING
So I looked out my window and saw this guy burying a tiny robed woman in a trench in the street...
I dream I'm addressing a dream convention, but I'm autistic! I MUST act bizarre, just to function...
I stalk a platoon of levitating surf-bunnies who may be out to bomb a Greenpeace submarine...
Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right...
CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS
In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come...
Gryphon meets Dragon, mid-air, and they're both me--sometimes...
Very nearly a nightmare, till the guard on the beach relented in the face of people power...
I get bored with crime, and then I die. So I take a workshop: How to Find your Guardian Angel. But things go strange...
CAUTION: UNEXPECTED ANGELS
You know angels feud over regional underfunding of Divine Grace. But you don't know how low they'll go...
Through vast Soviet ruins to the modest rooms where the new Russia lives. As I fall in love with my guide...
I tried a Redon theme: huge, floating eyes. His are scary, but mystical; mine came out as guilty terror...
My part in the revolution in Guinea-Bissau: substantial, but not exactly planned. I just wanted out...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
If it takes a whole village to raise a child, it also takes a lot of guts to raise a kundalini. Voila!
I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion...
Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Landing in Hawaii, I dream of a magical twilit cove I must swim across. The eve of leaving, there it is...
A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to?
I go invisible in my dance class and hear what the girls I like have to say about me. Uh-oh...
CAUTION: PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP TRUTHS
In a world obsessed with genes and pecking order, we're half-sisters--
very different, yet we support and trust one another. Our society's just wrong!...
My sisters and I try to kill kidnappers by setting fires. Dumb, huh? The next day I fight a virus--with fever!
I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy...
As the bland lead the blind... who knows their own mind? I'll tell you who....
We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains...
I dreamed my friend Beryl's soul was a giant rabbit, arguing in paradise with our mutual guardian angel...
Day: my dad's paralyzed, and my car's stolen.
Dream: a harpy made of steel, like a living Calder statue, holds three girls hostage...
Some Christian oneirologists barge into the Haunted Firehouse. But I pose for nude unicorn photos, and...
CAUTION: DUMB CHRISTIANS, EXHIBITIONIST UNICORNS, ETC.
My best friend is a cat. Problem is, I'm a rare hawk--a Cat-Eater. I never, ever would, but...
I dreamed I met a sort of hawk angel, but there was this preachy guy between us...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I dreamed I was a gull in Middle Earth fighting Sauron, though he
blurred my vision; but my hawk-eyed gullfriends helped me out...
I read Stephen Hawking, and dream I'm in the Quantum Desert, full of bridges, holes & loops--
like the microstructure of spacetime. But it's not counter-intuitive at all--it's HOME!
I was cartooning with a headache. It took over and started drawing for me...
I crash my car on the way to therapy. I ask my dream why. And it tells me! Deliberate, but not suicidal...
A shaman designs a rite to focus the village's healing attention on her client; the rest is just showmanship...
I bear a Ring of Power meant to corrupt me. I cleansed it, at a cost, but can't wield it till I've read its spell...
Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled...
Both my friends can become birds and soar; but all I can manage
is angel wings--barely enough to hold up solid-boned me...
An ancient rite has headgear that today picks up radio stations. What'd it pick up in ancient times?
I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself...
CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER.
Who built the tornado in the Heartland, that sucks anyone who opens their spirit-wings down to Hell?
CAUTION: BAD THEOLOGY, WORSE PHYSICS
Gay angels try to help an autistic woman. Change her past? Only if they pass the Ass-Backward Guardians!
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda...
Kat Hepburn burns inside, as fierce aliens take over our souls.
But these parasites forgot they're now bound to our bodies...
How's it feel to be an anima off the job? Is it lonely, when no one even believes you're a real person?
A farm girl seems to be sexually exploiting her dog and horse, but their auras tell another tale...
CAUTION: SEX SYMBOLISM
A sorceress trains a kid as a prostitute who'll spy on her powerful clients. But her training has side effects...
CAUTION: EXPLOITED KIDS
A woman says she's being stalked, but it's her own poltergeist! Her therapist makes her reach for it...
A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson...
CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
A beautiful herbivore suddenly eats one of its friends! Bloody. Who or what is this warning me about?...
CAUTION: YUCK, MEAT REALLY IS MURDER
The helicopter over our family home dipped too low. CRASH! Burning rotors in the living room.
I call 9-1-1, but the pilot scolds me! "Calling over a little explosion like this!"...
I'm a holy man sneaking into a sewerpipe at the beach, to pop anxiety pills in shame. Do they even work?
CAUTION: CHEMICAL CRUTCHES
I'm a heron working in the Civil Service. I want to blow the whistle, but then how would I support my...
CAUTION: BIRD-SLAVERY?
A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models...
CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN
James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
A letter to Miss Hornyhearts compares the writer's lover and husband. Some sharp advice for nice boys...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
I'm a hobbit seeking Henry Fonda's haunted gold mine. And find it. Or is that chocolate?
But then I'm caught in a shamanic showdown in a bar where they serve real spirits...
I'm the token Chinese guy in a jazz band in backwoods Brazil, in the old colonial days, when...
I dreamed I blinded myself because mere appearances
lead to racism & sexism. Only the blind know truth...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY, SEVERE IDIOCY
A book claims Hitler led not a political party but a cult out to apply mystical theories--like Manson! Then I dream...
CAUTION: BIG RANT, SMALL DREAM
I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal...
CAUTION: MATH AND WAR
The Goddess's harp, that calls in the seasons, just passed on. But the new harper has a shocking admission...
A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY
I'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change...
A witch advocates honesty, but kids mock her; one boy tries to rape her. We fight mid-air, riding her broom...
CAUTION: RAPE ATTEMPT
It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me...
I'm back in the 19th century, learning that horse breeders cross-bred
more than the public thinks. One suggests I look hard in the mirror...
CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE
Corruption in my town causes a bizarre death. But is that all? I smell smoke--will the city burn?
My anima Silky finds it hard to go back to classic hooves, now that she's tried opposable thumbs...
I fight to save a nest of 50,000 eggs that'll hatch... psychics!
But my friends want to exterminate them! Who's wrong here?
In a club, a new genderbending band. One singer gets me hot, but completely confused--for good reason...
CAUTION: SEXUAL SITUATIONS, GENDERBENDING
After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am...
A skater so hot, she tears her clothes off and starts melting the ice! I'm shy with her: thin ice, you know...
CAUTION: NUDITY
by Wayan; 1993/8/4, a bizarre, epic dream on finding your way
I'm a mare hot to trot (and get laid) in the Big City, but my gay Star Trek friend's brain trauma
makes her a clueless alien with a bo(a)ring sexlife--until a sad swan enfolds her in love...
CAUTION: ALIEN POSSESSION, CARTOON PIG SEX, SMOKING SWANS
I live in the Infinite Hotel, but the other guests in my wing are no fun. It's time to set sail...
As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house...
CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY
A poster playing with superimposed messsages. How strangely the mind sorts out different layers!
Just a dance/yoga dream, warning "don't push your body till it hurts..." that came true the next day.
I'm a librarian in an English village hit by fads--new philosophies and lifestyles. I learn what works:
I'm wrapping my heavy-metal eggs too slowly, so the Judges sink my car! I set out to get revenge...
A mysterious stranger offers free wishes to the kids of Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer wants to fly...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I marry, just to get into a clannish world where I'm seeking symbiotic unicorns. I end up fleeing...
Next evening, a TV movie--Goldie Hawn marries into a clannish world and ends up...
I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm an initiate in a Sung Dynasty monastery. But I have no idea how far the hazing can go...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
"I am a man upon the land; I am a Selkie in the sea..." Silky or selkie means a were-seal...
I can help slay a monster and save my friends--if I deny I'm human.
My denial has grave consequences, but it's absolutely true...
After the revolution, I rule. But I get out of touch. So I throw a party and invite me, myself and I...
Two embarrassing dreams the same night: I learn why I don't have cancer and can't buy giant panties...
CAUTION: STUPID
After the eco-crash, I try to join a tribe in the jungle that was Oakland. But they reject me, for good reason...
I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse...
CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
A bold rat comes right up to me. I don't want to provoke it, so I stay quiet. And let the rats...
CAUTION: UGH!
A gorgeous healer bursts through the wall to tell me "I used to weigh 500 pounds. It kept sex away! But..."
My friend Cory's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest...
CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES
I oversleep. A lot. All my friends are dead, along with my century...
I join the Seattle Tribal Council, which of course means marrying them all. The husband I'm to sleep with
on our Council Honeymoon seemed to like me, till he pulls that practical joke...
CAUTION: GROSS!
I asked my dreams "should I return to school?" They replied with this bizarre tale of sabotage...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE TO DUMB INSTRUMENTS
I'm a slave dancer. I run for it, and make it over the border. But my owner comes looking for me...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SLAVE SOCIETY
I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point...
I meet some cute dancers, but rather than flirt, I just try ballet leaps too. I get more than I bargained for...
I'm Joe Leaphorn, in (of all places for a Navaho detective) a coven in San Francisco watching a creamy...
The trans-arctic Ice Express, blinded by birds, gets off-track and blocked by oddly rectangular ice floes...
Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters...
When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm!
To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards...
CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT...
An early self-portrait rebelling against my gender and trying on beauty to see what'd change...
I read Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind; I dream
I'm a pilot who deduces an alien illusionist's in my plane...
I'm the animal guardian of a deep crater, but when a human girl rejects me, I set out to leave...
CAUTION: ORAL SEX, UNREQUITED LOVE, SPECISM
Clarisa Pinkola Estes (who runs with the wolves) was on the radio, and this popped out of my mouse...
I discover I'm not exactly a man OR a woman; so why not throw out their standards and roles and be me?
CAUTION: SEXUAL SELF-EXAM
I'm an android struggling to raise a boy genius. But even human moms of prodigies share my problems!
At the beach, my friends start a sleepy anonymous orgy... I'm single and frustrated, but is this what I want?
CAUTION: SEX
My family runs a bar. I walk through, after hours. Who are all these silent figures?
CAUTION: UNHEALTHY READING FOR SINGLES
I live on Io. It's nicer than its photos. At least inside, where the oceans are--where I grow a second head...
On Mars, a child-sacrificing cult of miners wants to kill me, but something strange happens....
This place isn't out of my dreams, it just looks like it. It's real real real...
I dreamed my fears faded like ghosts, as we made love in the rehearsal room. But invisible is not gone...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX
I'm a lab animal who discovers voice software and creates a personal zine, testifying for our rights...
I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore
their fears and heart's desires, unconstrained by solid matter...
CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISION, UNICORN NUDITY
I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet...
A woman in prison loves her counselor, but she's a barely literate hooker--she knows he won't love her back...
When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES
I'm in a mall that enlightened customers alter with a thought. But too many Buddhas spoil the architecture...
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming...
I'm the first tuna to get a scholarship to Stanford.
Naturally I sign up for a course in Inuit Meditation...
My dream characters aged and tamed until they sit in a genteel Victorian flat. Then a wolf rappels in...
I'm at a party in an air-lake. We fish for a girl who's gone invisible. But... what if we catch her?
I feel a drag, and take off my safety belt. I find I've been towing an invisible buggy with two men in it...
Poem by Emily Dickinson on fighting depression, which I get when my neuroallergies are severe...
God watches over me--to slap me down. If God is even God. So I set out to learn about this jerk-God...
When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert...
I'm a California Indian wandering through time, keeping
our secret of time-travel from reckless white guys...
Actress Teri Garr and Isis the talking cat recur all night, but
so does a baseball glove I haven't pulled out in years. Why?
A few days later a friend asks for that glove, and I find...
I'm a Japanese werefox, longing to reach the Isle of the Blest; but dare I swim for it?
Dream math often seems bad, but I think the discrepancies are a signal, not noise...
I find myself at a creepy party supporting a dead man who's running for office. And am I Dan Quayle?
CAUTION: HORROR BEYOND HORROR. YOU ARE DAN QUAYLE.
A car crashes & burns--but the driver bailed! No one to save...
A miner stabs a baby "because everyone not underground is evil"...
Radar O'Reilly from MASH, President Calvin Coolidge and I confuse who's who...
My family has shackled my little sister in the dungeon
in the hot tub full of carcinogenic bubble bath...
CAUTION: INCEST FEELINGS, TOXIC PARENTING
I'm slipping dimes into a boulder of jade: a vending machine that fills every order wrong. Why feed it? Well...
I volunteer for a friend's psych test, for her thesis. But my sixth sense skews her data! Does it skew real life too?
I get back from vacation to find the landlady's installed her daughter Jamie in our shared house...
A prisoner's allowed to see his middle-class lover only in a seedy bar by the jail. But she likes the place...
CAUTION: THE JOYS OF SLUMMING
Why is Captain Janeway doing the tango with another woman, in a creek, wearing a mermaid tail?
Montgomery's film about her teenage affair with a pedophile
is troubling enough before the FBI tries to blackmail her...
CAUTION: MOLESTATION/ABUSE ISSUES
Writer Joan Grant, who was a psychic and trance channeler, got a sort of reading herself, from H.G. Wells...
The tale of a fawn named Fawn and her mom, a bank-robbing hippopotamus...
CAUTION: GLAMORIZES THIS ALARMING TREND
My shortcut in a marathon bogs down in a maze full of psychoanalysts! So I climb the walls and...
Shepherding a group of cityfolks through an alien wilderness, I need a werewolf's help. So why do I lie?
Among aliens, humans are jokes. Fragile and blind, we can't fly starships. Unless we build our own...
Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it?
Why'd Julie write a singles ad with insane, sky-high demands, when she just wants a nice relaxed guy?
Jung's dreams and interpretations show he's a thing-guy not a people-guy. All that architecture!...
Jung was told in dreams and visions that Europe would soon drown in blood. But he just couldn't believe it...
At least fantasy and science fiction address my life-issues; "realism" just declares me nonexistent...
What really built Silicon Valley? Oh, pizza, sugar, coffee, speed and cocaine, mostly...
CAUTION: DRUGS ON THE JOB
A sex dream warning "to find your soulmate, learn to spot the opposite: cute political and spiritual idiots..."
CAUTION: SEX AND POLITICS
I'm a cartoon flamingo; with my sisters, the frog and the rabbit-squirrel, I meet our Maker--the cartoonist...
The true story of the very first tree-hugger. Not Kerouac! You'll never guess. In fact, you'll say it's impossible...
Swayed by sinister surgeons, I go all Buddhist and give up my attachments, including various organs...
CAUTION: DIVESTABLE GENITALIA
I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels...
CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS
Question authority? Nah. They always have such excuses! Kick authority entirely! Just say no.
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 win a free game of Kick the President. But what if everyone can see your kick-ass Prez but you?
CAUTION: THIS DREAM IS MONITORED BY THE SECRET SERVICE
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
The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave?
A psychic dream revealing my co-worker's secret desire gets tangled with the death of Truman Capote...
I dream of a scary king who offers to bake my dreams to strengthen them. Then my friend Mark calls...
My dad has a time machine, so he generously invites the King of Persia over. And offers him MY room...
I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk...
CAUTION: NUDITY, INTERSPECIES FLIRTATION
I wake to find I'm a museum exhibit 15,000 years from now--a primitive man...
My parents' house is now a sex club. I walk in, and meet my soulmate! But in awkward circumstances...
CAUTION: SEX
Klimt did a deep portrait of a lesbian couple back when most folks hardly saw gays as human...
A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins...
CAUTION: CARTOON VIOLENCE
Koko the gorilla has had some terrible setbacks lately... the double amputation, especially...
A sculpture of me as the sexy singing beast who lures the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk...
A small statue of this beautiful creature who keeps appearing in my dreams...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A sexy dream-creature hides by splitting her body visually,
her red mane and tail matching her background...
I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
I'm a slender, clever krelkin. I draw me, but then red rage erupts and I trash myself... can I be saved?
Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear...
Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us...
R.D. Laing gives two examples of dream-spillage suggesting it's not passive but playful...
I walk through worlds, fight a deadly lake demon, and work magic--but I mustn't go lucid...
I was just sketching figures in the extreme (iconic?) stances they get in when they dance...
I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me...
CAUTION: TERRORISM
Lunar terraforming lags behind Mars; a global ice storm hits, like the bad old days. But the future...
This couple keeps appearing in my dreams--as equals, as mount and rider, as friends, as enemies, as lovers...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A spiral dream-instrument I'm building, that's easier to play than a piano or guitar, and a lot snakier...
I wake up as someone else. I go through her working day, till Captain Kirk comes to take me to...
A goddess in a dream once told me to seek 3 and only 3 qualities in a mate...
CAUTION: NUDITY
My Aunt Squid advises me to join a lesbian artists' co-op. But I'm a man! Not for long, though...
CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING, GENDER BEWILDERMENT
Illness is such a handy excuse when you need solitude, care, rest, or just time to think... but...
I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing...
CAUTION: UNROMANTIC
Engineers! How they do love to impose clean lines on our messy world...
The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich what they really want: ranking and attention...
CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS
To investigate a criminal couple, I have to lie. And that's hard, since all my lies turn true...
CAUTION: NEW AGE AND FILM NOIR DON'T MIX
The life-loop. A woman bears a child who grows up to become herself, who bears a child who...
CAUTION: SKETCHY NUDITY
Recycling used paint to lighten pavements could lower continental temperatures a fraction of a degree...
She didn't want to be there. She closed her eyes and went elsewhere. So I painted where she went...
CAUTION: NUDITY
My housemate Lily is a lion. She bursts into my room. Stare-down. And then she pounces. So I...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE! MUTUAL GLARING! THE VULCAN NERVE PINCH!
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 was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but...
It's the 1970s. What's a lion to do? Get fern-bar camouflage: a suit and an I'm-a-bohemian moustache...
When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex...
I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever.
I join the alliance against humorless humanoids who are invading funny-animal planets...
I'm not sure just where she slithered out from, but she looks like more fun than most mammals...
CAUTION: LIZARD BREAST
I'm a shaman in Nunavut who has to teach a guy in a lizard
suit (and his foxy niece) that reparations have limits...
One of my first recorded dreams--how I foolishly turned away from Lobster Love...
CAUTION: CHITINOUS SEX
Brunch, a terrace restaurant, some cute women. I say hi and politely grope them... why do I feel odd?
I'm chasing a guy named Will (short for Willful Conformity) through the classes of a mad dance academy...
How the hell do I summarize this? Lola, a werefox I'm hot for, becomes my feudal Japanese brother, and
her fox-shape reappears as the truck-driving maid for a Han Dynasty lady. We counter the interdimensional
energy vampires by importing ghost unicorns on sailing ships, who have an orgy. Two weeks later,
it all comes true. Literally? No, but closer than you'd think....
Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL?
I was a bird-person in a post-nuclear future, touring North America on the wing. But ruins all look the same...
CAUTION: ALL YOU LOVE IS GONE
A tribute to Hiroshige's moonlit landscape prints of the lonely roads of old Japan...
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?
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...
Stayed up late, painting foreshortening. Then I saw a scene in color, motion, 3D, and knew
I had to be dreaming: I was visualizing too clearly, THINKING too clearly, to be awake...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A nightmare. I go lucid as the bullets tear through me. Yet I go on with the dream! Why?...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARISH VIOLENCE
I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis?
CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY
Day Me curls up and Night Me unfolds: a girl with dark moth-wings, not angel-white but camouflaged...
A looming figure on the border of the new Lunar Republic, who told me it's time to turn from war to art...
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...
A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly & deniably as me and my sisters...
CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE