2008/12/21 Upload
I sold my soul to the Devil. On an impulse, I handed him my fiddle. To my
wonder, he played a sonata of exquisite beauty. When I woke I retained only echoes...
Mom gave me cookies for my three-year solo spaceflight. Special cookies for both ends of me...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BAD SEX ADVICE
I’m at a lecture on Art, Beauty and the Nude, but no one paid the model and he wants a drink...
A revival meeting goes bad--suicides, 'long pig', a hell-pit. If you sup with the devil, carry a long fork!
From age six on, Simon nightly climbs mountains and faces roaring floods in a sort of naptime bootcamp...
George sees a cart-crash pinning a friend. He yells to bystanders to free the wheel, but they can't hear him...
A young woman and I swing one another into the air. I asked her to swing me more slowly and regularly...
A doctor tells Ellis to try "selvdrolla", but he's so focused on the strange name he forgets the prescription...
An albatross with beautiful eyes transformed into a woman. But her nose remained a beak! She asked...
A woman models an elegant gown baring her breasts. All five of them. Wait, those aren’t breasts, they’re...
A friend in Heaven promises Helen a lost ring would return to her. Three days later it did; but its path had been strange...
I say it's 4:30 PM; the waiter says 4:30 AM! I wake in the night to find
my watch says 4:30, but it's stopped! I wind it, and next morning...
De Bray dreamed a speeding car nearly hit him; a month later, he abruptly recognized the street from his dream and paused...
Adele: alone & scared in a dark wood--but her friend John came & shook a tree; it burst into flame!
John, the same night: found Adele scared in a dark wood. Shook a bush & it burst into flame...
I often dream of words forming on a page as their images dance around me. Here's an example...
Thrice I saw the Chancellor of the Exchequer shot in the House of Commons. I nearly went to London...
I was held hostage in India by courteous revolutionaries who avoided spelling out that we were soon to die...
Viga-Glum dreamt a giantess came to visit. "She is the spirit-guide of my grandfather in Norway. He is dead...
I dreamt of a surreal poker hand where one card changed to create a full house. Next weekend, I was losing when...
Gisli had two spirit-wives who told him in dreams how to evade the bounty-hunters after him... for 13 years!
I dreamt an epic poem on a sinister ruined city now home
only to reptiles. I woke with at least a hundred lines, but...
A man frames his big brother, til their sister makes him shoot his own reflection. Neither one expects...
Dunne dreamt of a fire with smoke so toxic it killed people on
a balcony in open air! Then came the evening newspaper...
My friend put an ad on her gown, so I try one on our house. I have big ideas for more, but a pickpocket...
Giant worms put me on trial for wearing a nameless hat, but I like their punishment so I taunt the judge...
When I'm stressed, I build a set of luna-moth wings and fly invisibly. Though once a blind man caught me by ear...
I found myself on a stone pillar in a valley. Invisible people sat on other stalagmites, but my voice didn’t reach...
That day Frederic, craving irises, fell in the water three times. At night he swam through an iris paradise...
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
Poem from a book on how love can save lives & souls, read in two dreams of a Renaissance astrologer's library...
I say Christ’s “blood” is a metaphor for “spiritual perfection.” My mom says "You're killing me; please repent"...
I held the strangest and most entrancing object I have ever seen: the very citadel of life itself!...
Before his daughter's even born, Thorstein dreams two eagles in love with a swan kill one another in rivalry over her...
CAUTION: PATRIARCHAL BARBARIANS
The book's first two pages showed an ant's awareness, then a human's wider grasp--both mere freckles on reality...
Gazing at the moon, Anna finds herself touring the Solar System, meeting all the planetary guardians...
CAUTION: MYSTICAL ECSTASY
I dreamt the Goddess of Spring paraded by my house. I woke and leapt to my bedroom window, and there she was...
Chapman dreams he must walk 100 miles to London Bridge; on the bridge, a stranger says
"dreams are nonsense! Why, I dreamt of buried treasure 100 miles away, in some town called..."
I dreamt an eagle slaughtered my twenty geese. I wept until he spoke to me: "Take heart! I am thy husband..."
Resistance fighter Josephus, cornered, took a hard look at his prophetic dreams and decided to make peace...
twin dreams predicting their children and nation will prosper.
Ragnhild sees a lovely tree rooted in her pain and blood;
Halfdan sleeps with pigs and dreams he has a great head of hair...
CAUTION: KIDNAPPING, ARSON, GENERAL BARBARISM (check the date!)
Thordhr dreams a pack of wolves attack him in a trade-booth! He wakes sure the trade-fair will be trouble...
A man in a blue coat on a white horse delivered papers from a nearby wrecked ship, signed Stephenson and...
Keats met two winged lovers nesting in the woods: Eros and Psyche, the last Olympians, worshipless...
I dreamt I was in the outermost circle of Dante's Hell, among condemned lovers, floating forever, in love, in bliss...
My only chance of life and freedom is to leap. He raises the gun and fires.
I'm flooded with a soundless explosion of light...
My friend F. saw a child whose every move was controlled by a weird figure behind her...
Mrs Griffiths has the same nightmare three times before she asks her nephew to skip a fishing trip...
A rich man dreamt thrice that hidden in St Berner's Well near his house was a golden collar. He reached in and...
CAUTION: OW
King Charles loses a new hawk. But a winged deer lands, bows to him,
and offers him a wild ride across France after his bird...
I snorkel over time-reefs to an era of talking animals--but why crash on the head of rocker Suzi Quatro?
Anselm dreams God orders King William's death by an arrow of fire; the
King dreams his blood covers the sun. Waking, he mocks a third man's ominous
dream, goes hunting, and dies bloodily at sunset, an arrow in his heart...
A mysterious night-encounter with a shapeshifting spiritwoman as elusive as Roethke’s poetry...
Samuel Pepys dreamt of kidneystones, pee, come, & snot--or did he? Thomas Macauley dreams his niece confesses...
With no sense of incongruity, I planned to take the child Polly
with me to the theatre, to see the grown-up Polly act...
Elizabeth tried to tell her dream, but her husband didn't listen. When his dad didn't show up for dinner, it was too late...
I dream I have just six months to live. I go through a dozen phases and moods, preparing for death...
Frederick dreams a monk writes words on the door of Wittenburg’s church
with a pen so big it pokes the Pope. The next day...
Donne, in Paris, was alarmed by a vision of his wife holding a dead baby. At that hour, in England, his wife...
I watched her dive into the lake... and fail to come up. Her golden cloak
floated on the water. I hesitated just a moment, and...
Dreams and other revelations shouldn't be dissected--they need to be reveiled, not revealed...
CAUTION: INTENSE MYSTICISM
In one night Descartes had three dreams convincing him he had to change the course of his life...
Augustus was ill, but a friend's dream prompted him to leave his tent before Brutus's assassins...
I can always fly in my dreams, so the military command asks me to levitate across war-torn Belgium as a courier...
I was the new girl among rich students, then an adult among snobs, then a girl again--always craving freedom...
While walking in the country, a vista suddenly terrifies Shelley: he recognizes it from a dream years before...
I was in the grave. Worse, a living skeleton was trying to crush my ribs. Though terrified, I fought back, and...
I possessed ubiquity: twenty of me, and each possessed by my same soul, so I could not say who I inhabited...
My new editor starts rejecting my poems. My new new editor rewrites them for me. I feel lucky not to be arrested...
A literary agent proposes a novelization offer from a writer I've barely heard of. Twelve weeks later...
At the zoo, Archer's friend found the tigers caged but the lions roaming free. The reason? Lions fear hell, but tigers...
I'm offered a spy-mission to Macedonia, and recall I dreamt this last night--a prophetic dream! Then wake...
I was on a steamer run amok, in a boiling yellow incredible sea out of which great pylons rose...
To help the King of Italy, I become a baker in Baluchistan--
learning Norwegian, levitating, meeting quaggas, riding landslides...
Greenwood dreamt her murdered neighbor's ghost gave her tips helping her catch his three killers...
I was on a plane... It was almost graceful, the plane actually entered the building before everything dissolved into flame...
CAUTION: DEATH. DEATH TWICE.
Hecuba dreams she gives birth, not to a child but a flaming torch! But she lets Paris live...
CAUTION: MORAL NO-WIN SITUATION
A huge gold cup was stolen from the Temple of Hercules. Sophocles thrice dreamt Hercules named the thief...
The night before Caesar's assassination, he dreamed he flew above the clouds and met Jupiter;
his wife Calpurnia dreamed he'd be stabbed, and begged him not to go out, but politics...
Two snakes fight as centipedes emerge from under rocks. I tell my friend. Next day her co-worker tells her the same...
I'm a Chinese kid fleeing the Japanese Occupation in 1938. As we near San Francisco,
I wake to find it's all my dad's dream. Wait--he's alive again? But he was never a refugee.
Is it a pastlife memory? If so, whose--his or mine?
Xerxes twice dreams a god orders him to attack Greece. So he asks his uncle to dream of the god to confirm...
Three big tap-dancing kidnappers is too many to fight. So I try admiring their kidnapping technique...
One night as I slept over a cheese shop, I dreamt I was trapped in a huge cheese, as a rat-horde gnawed...
CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
I dreamed a short story--even its title. Not that I read it. No, I lived it, through the eyes of a 5-year-old...
I slept late and felt a bit stiff, but until my friends pulled it out of my neck I had no idea...
An Arab shows me a stone he calls a book, and a prophetic shell that warns of a flood rushing toward us...
Terse dreamlets quietly catch World War I's effect. Faith died in the trenches...
A stallion reared to strike me. He was all the fear and rage I’d repressed... A woman said “offer him...
The innkeeper insisted I try a strange-looking liqueur, a house specialty called "Tuccotine"...
I was nineteen again, riding my horse down a bad road in Virginia. After three hours, my horse spoke up...
Demons open a trunk full of the horrors I've faced this year, and lay them out, mocking me... but is that all?
Ebon Ebon Thalud, a woman blended with darkness, tries to gouge out my right eye. I wake screaming. My right eyelid...
After murdering his mother, Nero dreams he's losing control: ships drift, statues chase him, and his own tomb says...
I meet the original Adam. He complains Eve neglects him, but he hopes to meet one of his cleverer descendants...
On the Euphrates, a monstrous crocodile eats all his kin. But when a winged ship appears, he feigns remorse...
I dreamt the world itself hired me, at a generous salary, to report its great affairs exactly as they happen...
I dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering about, content with my lot. Suddenly I awoke and was Chuang-tzu again...
Saints and devils in a sunken statuary garden turn too real for comfort; so, creating my own wings, I fly...
I'm at a garden-party when They attack. I flee through a garden of swords, but a guard with a bayonet...
I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)...
CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED
I dreamt a friend poisoned me. I "woke" and slew him in fury. But guilt gnawed me. I confessed and was due to hang...
CAUTION: NOT A CALM GUY
I find myself in a vault with tables where half-dissected animals writhe. Hidden in each was a human shape...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
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...
I dreamt a grey filly won the Derby. My friend, a fan, said no fillies were racing this year; but he forgot one named...
Jung and a little brown man shoot down Siegfried the German Hero, riding his chariot of bones. Wait... his what?
CAUTION: GRIM
I dreamt the royal coach got stuck in an arch on the coronation route. Awake, I checked the heights of coach & arch...
I don't understand this poem's symbolism or even its style. It came to me whole, in a dream...
G.K. Chesterton was a leopard, and he ambushed George Bernard Shaw... Oh, the blood! Why didn't I intervene?
Blake was broke. Couldn’t typeset Songs of Innocence and Experience.
But in a dream, his brother advised him...
2008/11/4 Upload
A long terrible shiver, and my whole body broke like glass. I may live months, but in that dream I died...
A gentleman clad but in a sheet notified me that an old friend had died of a terrible disease. What disease? Well...
My German friend resolved to commit suicide, so I agreed to poison myself to keep him company...
My face was leprous white like parchment; my eyes shone with
a cold blue eerie light. I shrieked "Papa, don't you know me?"...
The foremost wizard of Shakespeare's age dreams he's dead. They're burning his books, but that doesn't bother him...
I dreamt Anacreon the poet reeled with drink and lust--and I am wild and wanton like to him...
I found a honeymoon cottage by the sea, and the old landlady gave me a very reasonable rate. Everything was fine...
When my first play failed, I tried to console myself by reading Paradise Lost.
But drama and devils don't mix...
A huge wolfhound tore past me. My blood froze. The Wild Hunt was carrying off a soul...
A joyous day with a strange woman who seems not to be his wife, until he touches her hand and knows...
J.H. dreamt both his mother and Queen Mary appeared in mourning. Within days, both were dying...
Mistress Abbot dreams if she eats a jackfish her child will be great. Next morning one swims into her waterbucket...
I lead my daughter up a thorny path; she’s getting scratched. She'd rather stay in that fishing village below...
In a dream, a dead friend told Mrs. Cl. how to cure her daughter's chronic illness: the yew tree. But yew is toxic...
Daniel thrice dreamt of money hidden under a great stone in a nearby field. He dug and found a surprise...
CAUTION: IRISH HUMOR
A carpenter demolishes a ruined abbey despite dreams he’ll be crushed by stones falling from a window...
Wilkins visits his parents in a dream. Only they think he's a ghost, and panic--in the real world...
She dreamt Death attacked her but her youngest kids bravely fought back--and died. 3 months later...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
The wife of Admiral Richard Deane dreamt how he died two days before the news arrived...
A London Protestant dreamed Bloody Mary would find the congregation's member-list and burn them all...
Astronomer Edmund Halley had dreamed of sailing to St Helena in the South Atlantic,
but until he arrived hr didn’t realize how accurate his dreams had been...
I dreamt I gave birth to a white-hot stone shedding sparks. Most folk would find my son strange...
I always wrote some letters strangely--my 'd' was nearly illegible. So I set out to retrain my deep motor skills...
I find my lover sharing our secret joke with another. But I already knew
I'd lost her! Why'd my dream salt the wound?
A high place at night. The lights of a great city below. I step off into the air, and dance...
A couple slips in and out of sleep, dreams, one another's bodies and dreamworlds, trying to connect...
CAUTION: FREUDIAN SYMBOLISM, LITERATE WRITING
An Army nightmare suddenly changes--my enemy kisses me, & we start doing every kind of sex...
CAUTION: GAYS IN THE ARMY? DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL!
a dream-poem provoking a 2008/9/16 dream by Chris Wayan
I was in my mother's closet, trying on her outfits, and trapped in Hamlet, too...
After he died, I dreamed that the phone rang and when I said "Hello"...
Renewing one's life has its costs. What if you can't pay the price? A dreamlet of warning and shame...
I'm in bed sleepily petting my cat, when I see my cat across the room! What's on my legs? It's big.
My cat chases it off... through the wall? My room is sealed. Where did it come from, where did it go?...
I dreamt a couple toss out a shabby old hen. But it lays golden eggs! She becomes an eagle and carries me off to...
The jewels in the hoard had strange powers, but the advice of the dragon guarding them was even stranger...
I'm a spy tracking down coinlike bombs. Fighting a double agent, I fall in love!
So I suggest her gang rob golden-parachute bankers...
CAUTION: POOLSIDE SEX
The goddess of Night is in love with me, but I'm married, and tired, and just full of excuses...
After Shaw's Arms and the Man eclipsed my own play The Land of Heart's Desire, I dreamt I was haunted by...
As I wrote a poem on Caliban, I dreamt I was him: taken to Shakespeare's England,
shown as a freak, I must escape to save Miranda and Prospero from assassins...
We were as if brother and sister of old in the desert land;
they sold us in slavery together before this life had begun...
Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit...
and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch.
A lecturer tries to help the homeless founder of Hamm's Beer, robbed by bankers. But the talk may harm more than help...
A workmate said "They feed they lion"; two dreams later, the poem emerged as you see it...
CAUTION: POLITICAL RAGE, SURREALISM
Dreams of my childhood--bootlegger dad, critical mom, gun-
happy uncles, slaughtered squirrels, slaughtered Jews...
In Japan, sick in bed, reading a book on radiation sickness, I dream of a restorative ritual for trees...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
In the hills above a polluted shore, I find hidden valleys with huge rare trees, and realize it's my choice...
2008/9/22 Upload
I save our horses from a fire, but they run back in. Then it's
my family I must save from themselves. At last, it's my turn...
As my brother was dying, I had a series of vivid premonitory dreams about him. But I was unprepared for...
As the steamroller flattened me I became quite a lovely stained-glass window...
One wizardry-classmate summons strange beings; another's learned how not to.
Because some things need to be dealt with alone, where they can't harm......
On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
A new Eve asks the Time Commission to send her and her baby back to Ethiopia
45,000 years ago. But they're shy Moomintrolls, not humans...
2008/9/16 Upload
I loved the feel of the green snake, and reassured my friends it wasn't poisonous, but really...
George Bush leads a hill-tribe raid against the hill-tribe led by Osama bin Laden... and I'm stuck between...
CAUTION: ANTI-HEROES, POLITICAL PREDICTION
The jeweled fish over San Francisco grew and grew
until it landed and the crew told me the secret code...
A children's recital of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. And it feels... political?
CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY
Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists, then a huge impossible fruit...
CAUTION: NUDE SCIENTISTS
On the waterfront, I meet a seductive girl. Well, guy. Well, serial killer. Um, I think I'll leave now...
CAUTION: HOMOPHOBIA OR SURVIVAL INSTINCT?
I meet my own muse--the muse of all of us, perhaps--scooping water from a sacred well...
I'm in a barn full of peaceful animals lit by a golden glow. And then they all blacken, crinkle, and corrugate like burnt paper...
Improv-dancing with my sister, I get turned on. But then a repressed Asian girl joins our dance, and...
CAUTION: INCEST MENTIONED. OOPS, TOO LATE.
4 AM. A train wakes us all. We watch it pass, thinking of lost friends. And then I wake again to find...
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain...
In a city crawling across a marshy world, I find a detonating bomb frozen in a time-ball.
Why not detonate it somewhere harmless, why carry this around?
A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails...
I'm a ghost watching future archeologists dig up a site of my people--and get it so wrong...
I meet William Blake! He says "The will is given us that we
may know the delights of surrender." While in my bedroom...
As I write a sad sex dream, a madman curls up fetally in the road outside my window. I'm slow to call 9-1-1, and...
A glowworm and nightwatch beetle help out a lost crying ant-woman. It's not always a bug-eat-bug world...
Blake dreams he's a young queen with an uneasy relationship to her guardian angel...
I'm trapped in a cute cartoon universe! Worse, to judge this beauty contest,
I have to see past our style to our souls...
2008/8/29 Upload
I dreamt my friend Anne Sexton's death was on the news.
I woke, the phone rang, and I learned she'd...
CAUTION: SUICIDE
I visit a Tibetan monastery with great cellphone reception from the gods.
But all their calls are messages to pass on to others--none for us...
Soon after my friend and mentor James Merrill died, I had recurring, elusive dreams about him...
My dead friend Charlie and his sister and I are driving around
Lake Erie. We know it’s a dream and he’s dead, and yet we’re joyous...
My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall...
Our dream-group's dreams had a lot of imagery in common: circles, groups, meditation. I fused them into this piece...
I have to kiss a mess of cats. Fishy, but I'm not chicken. My real beef is with the humans watching...
I dream I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters. Wait a minute...
Through twin gates of dream--not ivory and horn any more, but fear and trust...
Three castles on the sea: a Mock Kremlin, a Ship of Toiletpaper, and a Ship of Brick and Beer...
A mad old surfer of the San Andreas Fault, impossibly riding earth-change...
My sister & I swim round a weirdly shrunken Pacific. Near Fiji, we blunder too close to the drain...
I interview my own metabolism. Trouble in Cellville! I've got strikers and usurpers. But at least no invaders...
I led a blind man through a vast art museum underground. But guiding him, I too was blind to the beauty...
After my mom's death, my dad starts dating again, while I hide out and wince. Can't I do anything positive?
I visit a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans.
But when a boy dreams he's a crocodile, she freaks out...
2008/8/17 Upload
At a party in Animal Heaven, I fall for a rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner.
But how can I rescue her? I'm Fate's part-time intern!
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, INCOMPETENT ANGEL OF DEATH
Alchemy demands I kill ten swallows. I refuse! Instead, twelve birds and I fuse and fly over a magic wood...
"But what is wrong with my friends' faces? Why have they changed that way to wood?"
Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite...
CAUTION: WANTON MURDER
I play the lovers in a teen romance: shy abused boy, insecure girl. But I get tired of the script, and...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
2008/8/13 Upload
The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she’s worthy...
A dream-fable of lemons who are really orange-people infected by a spore turns out to be about me...
After I flew from New York to Hawaii, a surreal dream of a floating man reeled in like a kite...
I meet a monster--half earthworm, half giraffe. Then I realize she’s kind of cute...
At the beach I dive into deep water to save my drowning friend Kathy, and find it’s not so clear who’s who...
Landing in Hawaii, I dream of a magical twilit cove I must swim across. The eve of leaving, there it is...
After a year of intense dreamwork, Berryman rejects Freud and accepts open-ended dreaming, and writes Dream Songs...
CAUTION: SIXTIES STONER REBELLING AGAINST SPELLING... and grammar... and punctuation...
Half asleep, I scrawl a nightmare of trying to rescue gasping boyfish, but my dreamwriting goes wrong too...
Money, power, race and gender stifle my working friends less than hierarchical structures...
The moon invites me to go flying, but I get tired of magic and just want to go shopping...
A monster's out to eat my dog--and maybe me. We get cornered in the barn...
Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth.
My hunting license won’t let me legally shoot a giraffe or ibex, but I do bag a prime Macy’s salesman...
CAUTION: LICENSE TO KILL
Getting rid of lice was easy. Harder was quelling the gossip and rumors from my co-workers and boss...
CAUTION: A LOUSE OF A BOSS
2008/7/7 Upload
I rescue some drowning kids by turning into a mermaid, but towing one girl has an unexpected effect...
A pod of whales in the sky and a circle of children dressed like seed-pods both beg me to interpret them...
Walking around my brother's farm, I met this goat with a human head. He'd been playing with matches...
Great towers rise into a fog zone--or is it another world with other rules? And how to draw both levels?
I dream of German dirges I don't know. I hum them for a friend, who shocks me by asking
"Have you abandoned any children, or burned a manuscript?" Right on both counts...
I keep dreaming of awkward but successful transitions into new life, and paint them all in one landscape...
A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied...
I face a barrage of deadly challenges out of every action film I've seen and every game I've ever played...
I'm the First Lady. I have a dream that my husband's assassinated, and wake and try to warn him...
Someone's prowling outside my window. I'm paralyzed in bed, but I force myself into action...
I dreamed of speckled eggs, Caribbean drug traffickers and of
almost drowning near a sinking boat...
When I met someone attractive, my head flamed, burning my body like a wax candle...
Jung Chang’s exposé of Mao's brutal deeds and legacy
provoke dreams of leaders who don't listen--till I scream...
2008/6/13 Upload
At the end of my long, tiresome tour of Hell, it's feeding time in the cage of the Manson cult...
CAUTION: SO MEAT REALLY IS MURDER!
An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW without preconceptions--
no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void!
Sprague De Camp says religions seduce us with emotional comfort. But is dreamwork religion or science?
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and
secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
I’m an Asian kid in Pacifica, California. My parents annoy me, so I offer them for sale on Craigslist. A cop appears...
I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but both pens and paper have mutated. Then a child prodigy explains “dreams don’t always want to be linear”...
In cave times, while the men were all out hunting, it was
the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...
To fight the drug trade, cute little blonde cops plant packets on men in the park. And when I resist...
CAUTION: BAD COPS
At a beach, a mob of kids stage an intricate practical joke full of coordinated “accidents.” How many of the jokers knew the end was death?
CAUTION: MALICE
A time-traveling historian's caught in a moral dilemma: warn an ancient prince
that in her history books he died of a fall? Can you change fate? Should you??
A bomb's planted on our ship! But when a teen finds it, rather than fetch a responsible adult...
Dreamworlders, exploring our waking world, tell me of their home.
Their known dreamworld is just a one little patch on a huge unknown globe...
Out of a Campbell's soup can poured life force: someone's last breath...
I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species...
A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species...
CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
An owl flew at me, and I fused with it. The next thing I knew, I was a redtail hawk...
I was just a street rat, but I danced with the princess at a ball, and fell in love. Three rich suitors pulled their blades...
2004? to March 2008; repeated meetings with a guardian--in dreams & out!
For five years now I've been dreaming of this guy. Many dreams, same guy...
I found myself in a cafe in Amsterdam--or was it Sevilla?--with Kevin, who I knew was dead...
CAUTION: GRIEF
I dream my watch is way off and I'll be late. When I wake, I check
my daughter's watch. They agree. Can't BOTH be wrong... can they?
On the run I meet a lycan, a pirate, and a mermaid. She causes a flood, and something floats by I just have to grab...
CAUTION: INTERRUPTED SEX
No matter who I dream I am, twin secret agents dog me, eating my soup, playing my games...
CAUTION: PHILOSOPHY!
2008/3/24 Upload
I’m a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck...
I’ve had premonitory dreams of friends’ deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action...
In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits...
Lions trap me in an African cave with only coffee, paper and pens! Is this what it takes to get me to write?
Hillary Clinton hid her cancer, but the GOP found out. So a monster kidnaps Rainbow Brite, and...
Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush were having a secret love affair, and I was sharing their bed...
Hillary Clinton was trying to seduce me, and doing a pretty good job, too...
I found myself defending humanity before an astral jury, begging them to delay the great die-back...
Agassiz, faced with a fossil he had to crack open, was unsure where to strike.
But for three nights he dreamed...
A knight falls in love with a fey woman, until her previous victims warn him in a nightmare that she is...
CAUTION: GOTH TO THE MAX
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
I'm on a trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom, my dead dad, and--who's that guy?
I'm hiking through the Catskills when a gigantic amoeba comes slipping over the hills...
"I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it..."
I get speared by Irish warriors, slipped an LSD dose, chased by giant spiders, torpedoed--hey, I'm not bored!
Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request...
Kekule dreamed solutions to the thorniest structural chemistry problems of his era not once but twice...
Loewi thought nerve impulses were transmitted chemically, not electrically. But he couldn't prove it, until one night...
Towers, before he was killed, argued Terman was wrong: geniuses are often isolated and maladjusted...
CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-shards, wasn't so sure...
I'm the only one who can stop the plot to kill the Pope--but if he keeps shrinking like that, will it matter?
CAUTION: RECOVERING CATHOLIC
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At a party I meet a friend I thought was dead. She's become a small talking rabbit made of cake, and I...
CAUTION: UGH
I dream I'm telling a tall tale about a cat-funeral with hung-over mice pulling the hearse. But it turns a bit too real...
I'm at a Robert Bly camp for men only. But I'm no man--not even human--some faun or satyr-like species...
CAUTION: THIS 'TEMENOS' IS A SACRED PHALLIC IMAGE
Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth...
Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire,
a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm?
I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself...
I was working in the library, talking to this woman who announced "I think I'll grow my horn now..."
Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all...
CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to
Anorexic Bootcamp where models learn self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by...
CAUTION: BARF, HORNY ANOREXIC, FOOD FIGHT
News of a new national park and a science show on cleaner-fish spur a daydream of dolphins, cats and...
CAUTION: FISH ORGY; MOCKS THE ANGEL MORONI, TOO
I keep feeling I'm a reincarnated rainforest creature just passing for human. When all I want is...
CAUTION: TOBACCO