One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later…
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS
Kekule dreamed solutions to the thorniest structural chemistry problems of his era not once but twice...
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 of 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 political aide to the leader of a hot-tempered, clawed, fanged alien people. And then my boss dies...
I'm a sexy singing beast, the Krelkin, trying to lure the Reading Man out of his Moral Kiosk...
CAUTION: INTERSPECIES FLIRTATION
I wake to find I'm a museum exhibit 15,000 years from now, and I'm an utter primitive...
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: 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?
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree (at least until that visitor from Porlock barged in...)
CAUTION: POET ON PAIN MEDS
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...
I was working in the library, talking to this woman who announced "I think I'll grow my horn now..."
I walk through worlds, fight a deadly lake demon, and work magic--but I mustn't go lucid...
Pretty much everyone in my school is a bloodsucking alien, but, come to think of it, so what?
CAUTION: SEX, VAMPIRES, SEX WITH VAMPIRES, BUT NICE VAMPIRES
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 early 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
I'm starting a project that'll build chromatic instruments easier to learn and play than conventional ones. The Project describes nine interface designs, from staggered keyboards and button-grids to my favorite, the helical Coil. Wanna be in on it?
I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost. We need a Dragon...
Alien abductions upset us--being studied, not greeted as people. But how do we treat animals? Do we create the gap we expect and then observe? That night, I dream one dog on a leash paralyzes a civilization...
A sensual moon-worshiping flying feline who'd inevitably evolve in certain Pegasian solar systems...
CAUTION: NUDE CLAY CAT
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 and powerful block reform. So let's offer them 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
Mysterious doings on an archeological dig bring a creature back to life, but this is no Mummy...
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 peaceful 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
Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see...
I was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but...
Lincoln dreamed his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later, he was...
Lions trap me in an African cave with only coffee, paper and pens! Is this what it takes to get me to write?
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 aliens blind to humor and metaphor, who are invading funny-animal planets...
Windsor McCay's dream-comic "Little Nemo" is spectacular, but plotless and passive. Or is it? Dreamwork is gradual...
I'm not sure just where she slithered out from, but she looks like more fun than most mammals...
CAUTION: LIZARD BREAST
I visit the underworld court of the Lizard King, but I can't leave: he makes me Queen...
CAUTION: MARITAL RAPE (NON-GRAPHIC)
I'm a shaman in Nunavut who shows a rubber lizard 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
I'm chasing a guy named Will (short for Willful Conformity) through the classes of a mad dance academy...
Brunch, a terrace restaurant, some cute women. I say hi and politely grope them... why do I feel odd?
Loewi thought nerve impulses were transmitted chemically, not electrically. But he couldn't prove it, until one night...
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 think....
The Dating Fairy, built on lonely evenings waiting for her to call me back--whoever "her" was that week...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL?
I had this near-nightmare about climbing a DNA stair up to the sky, and stepping off...
CAUTION: NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES
The Lord Chancelor can't sleep, and when at last he does, he drifts through nightmares full of baby lawyers and potted tradesmen sprouting fruit, and cutthroat corporate scheming. But that's Victorian dreaming!
My mom hires a therapist who really goes for my throat! Why is she so desperate to make me lose my...
CAUTION: OVER-THE-TOP CONFRONTATION
I dreamed I was a bird-person in a post-nuclear future, touring North America the low-budget way...
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?
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
Singing a Lennon love song on a planet of giant women provokes first wonder, then disbelief. Why?
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
I flew as if part of the air--an otherworldly freedom so exquisite I wonder if it's attainable at all in earthly existence...
A nightmare. I go lucid as the bullets tear through me. Yet I go on with the dream! Why?...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARISH VIOLENCE
Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see...
CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE
I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis?
CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY
I fell asleep reading a book I'd read years before. I finished it in my dreams. Every word in place. How?
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 an animal dance troupe, but wake to find I'm alone. For consolation, I eat at The Terrace, and meet...
There's power in dark memories--creatures of the deep strata. But the flowers of now are just as real...
A mob of kids chases me chanting "Lyin' Wayan!" I get dizzy and fall off a bridge... THEN comes trouble!
CAUTION: FATAL FALL
A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly, as deniably as me and my sisters...
CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
A vast sea-world with 8 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species...
CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!