How do we make dream narratives readable, when most readers are raised to think they're nonsense?
I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the underworld...
CAUTION: THREESOME, SCARY BOYFRIEND, SNAKE HEADACHES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
I dreamed the Stealth Bomber wasn't a machine, but a gigantic Owl-god. And Stealth was worshiped...
CAUTION: CREEPING PACIFISM
This image bewilders me; my dreams mix sex with warmth, grief, even silliness, but what is THIS telling me?
CAUTION: WEIRD ORGY
Everyone squishing away contentedly but me... watching curled up in the corner as usual...
CAUTION: EXPLICIT SEX, BESTIALITY
I worked at Stanford too long. I got tired of observing the mating displays of the purple-prose patriarch..
CAUTION: NUDE ACADEMIC GROUPIE
George Washington faces sniper fire, kamikaze birds and voices claiming the fight for freedom is hopeless...
While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love with an abused oriole-angel, and we try to heal each other...
CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
A witch with a messed-up mind makes me her sex slave. But what if I can bypass her brain?...
CAUTION: SEX
The clues point toward my own anima as the murderer, but Detective Dee finds the even odder truth...
A hall designed to give your fear-glands a workout, because muscles aren't the only thing to buff...
A robed figure crowds a wild horse to a cliff-edge. One's my body, one's my soul. But which?...
A poster playing with superimposed messsages. How strangely the mind sorts out different layers!
Robert Bly's books on men and mentors provoke a dream of co-opted Star Trek captains and rebellious midgets...
CAUTION: IF YOU LIKE BLY...
I painted this upside down, with a mouse, then flipped it to see what I'd done...
People SAY they like realistic characters they can identify with, but they don't ACT like it...
The shy, doggy need for reassurance I often crave from a lover--do I crave a mistress, an owner?...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PILLOW TALK
Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
A TV crew invades the house, setting up for a special. I didn't expect to see a president on the work crew...
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!
A sardonic little poster on dating-role reversal with helpful advice...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND INTRUSIVE PHALLUS
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 THEMES
I'm a trade rep for Terra, on a new world. But an old rival, a rep from another world, arrives, and...
CAUTION: DRUGS
West of Seattle, near Lake Ozette, a mudslide buried a whole Makah Indian village centuries ago...
Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies...
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER
I don't know what this scene is about--but it's not a dream. A stage, I think. Something from childhood.
CAUTION: UNBEARABLE BARE BEAR
I have to care for two gigantic eggs. But I'm at a party where people crack eggs for Slime Races...
I oversleep more than usual, and wake to find a friend is dead. Or more than one. Maybe... everyone?
Engineers! How they do love to impose clean lines on our messy world...
Why don't I push for more art shows? I asked how I feel at shows of my own work, and this came out...
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.
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 win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find...
A dream of innocent incest turns guilty, grows into a war of ghosts versus a cult of sneaky sexy psychics...
CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, NIGHTMARE
The tale of a gray heart trying to heal leads to unicorn-hostage drama in the Transamerica Pyramid...
CAUTION: SEX, MAFIA THREATS, VIOLENCE
A dream-friend blames me for nothing. I wake, and TWO friends blame me for...
Would the Revolutionaries in the Basement really blow up the Committee of Idealists upstairs?
CAUTION: MAD BOMBERS, OR AT LEAST GRUMPY ONES
I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because...
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
A volcano erupts in San Francisco! No human could survive the blast, but one researcher does--what IS he?
Two unarmed sisters defeated a dragon who's now slaying an army of knights on bikes. What changed?
Deanna Troy and I meet an alarming man atop a Mayan pyramid. Who will be the sacrifice?...
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
An experimental helmet knocks me out. I'm groggy, miserable, till I learn what it did to others...
I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power...
I feel split into warring impulses who argue, advise, ignore, and snipe at each other...
I have all the signs of multiple personality but memory gaps. But YOU all have gaps every night...
CAUTION: BACKGROUND SEX
The starship Enterprise. A world ahead sends the Captain and the Nurse odd psychic urges. Follow or resist?
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
I'm in Houston, gawking at giant starfishy towers looming through the smog. Their shapes are familiar...
After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am...
Wayan dreams a jet crashes in dead silence. That morning his computer silently crashes. Meanwhile Vera dreams of being ON a jet that...
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
My family moves into a damp basement. My dad just sneers at the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..."
How I cursed Isabella the sofa sorceress, cursed her with a blueberry. And why that stinks...
CAUTION: UNDER THE MAGIC, IDEAS
Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter... but what can he lure us with? What do we want?
That moment when you tire of your old trauma and suddenly turn to the sun. Or fun.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
Down at the tideline, a man dressed in seaweed disproves John Donne's adage...
I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE TOWARD CHILDREN
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!
A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now...
I'm trapped in a TV documentary on nuclear war! Better dive through a TV screen and find a safe sitcom...
I'm trapped in a TV documentary on nuclear war! Better dive through a TV screen and find a safe sitcom...
My housemate'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'm a lean loose cheetah who works best in short bursts and long rests. I overwork when I get too human...
In dreams, I kept meeting a dinosaurian person who was proud, strange, beautiful. S/he introduced me to two sisters I just had to paint...
I was on a terrace overlooking a waterfall, where a giant rabbit and a musical dragon told me...
Just a soft sketch of two dancers...then this loud slutty stomping woman leapt into the center...
WARNING: NUDITY.
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
Swimming down among the tentacles didn't bother me. I wanted that ball. But I didn't see the BIG eye...
God built 3 dials to check: body, soul, and time. But the Holy Spirit's lazy, only checks one! It's up to us...
The dinosaurs I meet manage to prove BOTH time-travel theories! Yet they're contradictory...
The real pursuit of happiness: Happiness pursues ME, and I run in shame and hide! But she's persistent...
The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
A recurring dream of a fourway marriage of animal people. I don't think it's symbolic, but predictive...
CAUTION: FURRY SEX
First, sf writer Heinlein advocates a strong army; then I see one in action--turned against the people...
A 'toon liberation dream. I cartooned a new self and slowly she grew realer, until she ran Disney...
CAUTION: FRANK SINATRA SWEARS
I relate so easily to animals, it's odd how ambivalent I felt about trees...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
Anti-ideological rant calling experience water and belief... ice.