A large airship crashed onto a hilltop and burst into flame, silhouetting people who tried to escape, but...
A friend gave me a meat-cutting board, with channels for the blood. Eww. So why'd it become three cats worshiping the sun?
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much?
CAUTION: IDEAS
A precognitive dream about levitating snake girls, raccoons, and lunar eclipses.
CAUTION: MY SNAKE BREASTS
Suddenly I hate and fear black kids in school! The counselor says I'm clinically paranoid: I need drugs! My dad says "How strange, how sad." And goes home to light a candle at his shrine to the Confederacy...
CAUTION: INDUCED RACISM
My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that's his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear is stolen. He builds spy-planes to find it. One morning the camp wakes to find...
The rest of us heavenly bodies have each other, but from the Sun's viewpoint, we're just rubble. Alone...
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, AND GENERAL BARBARISM (look at the date!)
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...
Women rain out of the sky. People shrug "Suicides." I don't believe it--and what if one falls on me?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
In Rainbow Food Co-op, a huge statue of a sleeping woman emerged from the floor, shedding shoppers...
In our steamy future, after the cities drown, I'm hiking through Rainbow Tunnel, when I meet a holy man...
Why wait for the Rapture when you can use a chinup machine and raise yourself off that cross?...
CAUTION: NUDE PSEUDO-CRUCIFIXION, SACRILEGIOUS SELF-HELP
A Borges story of a were-tiger provokes a dream of a ranch crawling with weird women. But I LIKE them...
CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES
I was just sitting, minding my own business when these golden wedge-birds divebombed me...
My sister hoists us up to the Goddess's country too early, or too late: the ice is thawing, treacherous...
Millay dreams her lover's attacked in the street, and wakes to realize it's already happened; he's lost.
Bob is at the window asking to be let into my house. He is dressed as Santa Claus; in fact, I think he is...
CAUTION: MURDER ATTEMPT
My parents invite me to dinner, but my mom chases a rattlesnake up my leg. Then I wake to find two holes in my...
I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls...
My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake, while I dream that a different kind of raven gives me weird advice...
In a church-tent, I find glowing pictures of mine I've never seen awake. One's half-done; I work on it.
I wake, and read how Jung, in a Ravenna church, saw luminous images he later learned burned centuries ago!
CAUTION: NUDE STAINED GLASS
20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems...
CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost. And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
How do we make dream narratives readable, when most readers are raised to think they're nonsense?
Jung Chang’s exposé of Mao's brutal deeds and legacy provoke dreams I demand that leaders listen...
My dreams show me how one world can be a fiction within another that's a fiction within the first! Dreams and fictions aren't simulations but windows. So be nice to your dream-figures--it turns out you ARE one...
First I try to break the sound barrier like my girlfriend. Nope! Then I fly slowly to her apartment. Nothing flashy, but I make it. Last, I flash back to ancient China, where I land at a candle-lit temple dedicated to... me?
Puzzled me why I (the girl on the left) was so outraged about the gift of a perfectly nice levitating flower...
CAUTION: NUDITY, INGRATITUDE, WITCHCRAFT, ELVIS
Even after the Resurrection, a mother and daughter still have issues to clean up...
Julie keeps dreaming that she gives birth to a cat, or a part-cat baby...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BIRTH, UNBIRTH, REBIRTH...
Trapped in elementary school, Julie is forced to study the alphabet until she declares "I'm a professional cartoonist, goddammit!"...
Ann Marten kept dreaming that her stepdaughter had not eloped but was buried under a nearby red barn...
CAUTION: MURDER
I was rather afraid of red before this. The first hint someone different was starting to emerge inside me...
I'm in my home town, but at two times at once! Murderous boys explain why: I died here in 1861...
Mt Everest is snowfree and red; and next I get to color sandstone caves red with ochre. That red feels full of energy...
Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
You're looking down on a landscape at something red, scalloped and twisty. A barrier or a path to follow?
As a boy I dreamt my uncle (a calm man) glared at me in red rage; I was terrified. A decade later, in a bar...
I dreamt that over a balcony rail I saw bright-colored, spectacular scenery. Years after, I took a detour in Arizona...
I face two gunmen fleeing an invasion of dragons I support--since I'm a dragon inside. But dragons are more humane than humans...
I'm not a normal wolf: I'm a were-woman. When I turn wolf again, I'm in heat; but I want to be alone! So...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
The moon's a sailing ship propelled not by wind but light: the light of night-movies. Dreams...
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love.
Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace?
CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
The jewels in the hoard had strange powers, but the advice of the dragon guarding them was even stranger...
I dreamed my fears faded like ghosts, as we made love in the rehearsal room. But invisible is not gone...
CAUTION: SEX
An insecure girl who looks like my anima is rehearsing a controversial love scene with an alien wolf...
Reindeer linked by their heads--curiously analogous to language, or culture, or the Web, isn't it...
A middle-class girl rejects me. Then a newsman dismisses my political positions as irrelevant. "Liberal media" my ass...
CAUTION: POLITICS
Wilkins visits his parents in a dream. Only they think he's a ghost, and panic--in the real world...
I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet...
CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO!
I dream I'm telling a tall tale about a cat-funeral with hung-over mice pulling the hearse. But it all turns a bit too real...
A refugee girl crawls into my bed. We become lovers. I protect her. But over time... am I holding her back?
CAUTION: ABUSE? OR NOT?
A futuristic science fiction adventure dream. We rode a feathered, bipedal dinosaur, and got chased by...
The mysterious glyphs above the model's head are dream-language, warning me to...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm a kid in Nevada around 1950, learning that both my folks are lone wolves who gave me a genetic double dose... CAUTION: RACIAL THEORY ABOUT... LIBERTARIANS?
A horde of demented dwarves invades Market Street, jumping up & down, shaking the skyscrapers...
Dreams and other revelations shouldn't be dissected--they need to be reveiled, not revealed...
CAUTION: INTENSE MYSTICISM
When whites invade, two shapeshifting Native American cubs resist architecturally...
Biking, I find myself chanting a dinosaur name. I don't even know what it is. At home I open a novel, and a Rhamphorhynchus appears, politely defined for me by our obliging universe...
My sister and I played games based on the Rhine Institute's ESP studies. Our scores were not random...
After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
I was in the grave. Worse, a living skeleton was trying to crush my ribs. Though terrified, I fought back, and...
I dreamed I met a wealthy werewolf. My parents were leftists and told me the rich are wicked--but...
CAUTION: INDECENT T-SHIRT, INDECENT WEREWOLF
A rich serial killer in a sports car flaunts his virtual immunity, till I go after him in a light plane...
I'm single and feeling shy. So I asked my dreams for an image of my true love, and got...
CAUTION: SEX
I'm not ambivalent--I'm confused! I live here by the Rift Zone and I don't. I'm single and not. Two lives!...
Widely held notions manifest easier. I could forge Sauron's Ring, and it'd really work! But do I want to?...
Earth has rainbow rings. They're braided like Saturn's, so their shadows create tinted microclimates...
One day, in the ruins of an American city whose name was lost, I met a Ringman under an oak...
CAUTION: GROSS WORK, IF YOU CAN GET IT
I'm in the park, feeling sad, till a girl on the lawn near me semaphores a message via rings and turquoise...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. One of my tour group jumps ship: she's scared of the white water of rocky relationships ahead...
CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
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
Eleven years after I dreamt of that green dress and green riverbank and dreamy day, I was convalescing in...
The white road is my life history, told in women: friends, lovers, relatives, ancestors--and one past life...
They were both beauties and look rather feline to me--I'm drawn to feline beauties still, and wonder...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
Friends, and lovers, and some who got away. And the big question mark in the future...
"Go back! Wrong way!" says the sign--not because the past is dead, because it isn't...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
The Rem Road I travel every night, from rocks and flesh to spooks and stars...
Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back...
Blake was broke. Couldn’t pay to typeset Songs of Innocence and Experience. But his brother showed him in a dream...
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular...
Floating in my parents' house, I get trapped in free-fall! How can I get a grip? (Nothing symbolic here!)
A proud angry picture-poem during a hard time, when great gifts flowed through my hands...
A friend's tragic accident confines him to disco roller skates for life! Worse yet, he's in a Rocky Relationship...
CAUTION: "ROCKY HORROR" REFS, SEX
The mayor declares war on bikers, blames us for gridlock! I dream of Rosa Parks' influence and realize...
We're swallowed by Swamp Sofas and enslaved to The Man Who Prays on Us. Time to grow some thorns!
I love dancing, but a gloom settled on me; I wouldn't go. I begged Frances to take a certain car, and she did--but coming home...
Sort of a psychedelic scribbly version of Henri Rousseau's pictures of flute players in the jungle...
The ship I was on going down in the Irish Sea. It was not till yesterday, looking at an old paper, I saw about the sinking of the Rowan in the Irish sea...
My mom and sister take me to see a bondage film. But the movie steals my pants! I should have known...
CAUTION: WORSE THAN PEEWEE HERMAN
I dreamed of a woman whose jeep stalls on the Antarctic ice. Along comes the ghost of a Volkswagen...
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
I just wanted to imagine getting licked by a nice friendly escapist dog on a nice shaggy rug, but...
CAUTION: BESTIALITY! SEX! METAPHYSICAL DOUBTS!
The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember...
CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS
A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs...
I couldn't make it to Spain to see the Running of the Bulls, so I found an American equivalent...
I'm a flightless bird hopping down a line of marble columns rising from the sea, as they topple behind me...
A rather feline runner poised for the starting gun...
It was way too late to call, but an irrational urge made me wake my friend up and pester her until...