Jung and a little brown man shoot down Siegfried the German Hero, riding his chariot of bones. Wait... his what?
I dreamt a grey filly won the Derby. My friend, a fan, said no fillies at all were racing this year; but he forgot a loser named...
Wayan dreams a jet crashes in dead silence. That morning his computer silently crashes. Meanwhile Vera dreams of being ON a jet that...
I'm a trade rep for Terra, on a new world. But an old rival, a rep from another world, arrives, and...
CAUTION: DRUGS AND SHARP THINGS
After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness...
Ours is a mixed-race family, and my sister takes after the horse side. No hands, but can she sing!...
My anima Silky plans to kill a man who hurt her. Instead, we make them re-enact it, with variations...
I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky, a black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats...
A love poem to the black nightmare I kept meeting in my dreams, who finally married me...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
I'm a kid in a classroom someone's trashed. Our teacher goes ballistic. But was the gypsy girl framed?
Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange pagan church where we get married at last...
My anima the singing horse was encouraging a shy werewolf boy to give it a try...
CAUTION: UNCLAD HORSE CHANTEUSE
An astral travel advisory. You'll fly better, if (before you leave your body) you...
A sketch of a whistling punk girl somehow mutated into a fairy holding a songbird of sorts...
My sisters play with dice. Miriel can influence them telekinetically, but she can't hold them: too young to have thumbs!
Black holes can be scary enough outside you, but what if you have dormant ones inside you?
My friend sleeps with an alien. He's ugly, but I don't care. What bothers me is how he eats bits of himself...
CAUTION: SEX, RECREATIONAL CANNIBALISM, PROSTITUTION, THE KITCHEN SINK
First, suck up 90% of Earth's seas. Now wait a million years for life to adapt. Tibetan plateaus above steamy new Deeps ruled by giant parrots, ravens and otters...
Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse; my oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snotty aunt; I wake in a stranger's bondage dream and hate it; shepherds watch for gliderwolves on the ocean floor...
CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE DREAM
The glow seemed to come from within her, but I knew it flowed from my own breast. Her eyes fluttered...
We play with worlds for balls, and gravity wells for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out.
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...
Predictive dreams rarely hint how far they've peered ahead; they just place you in their foreseen future...
Just a lazy, sexy image that came to me, of floating in air like a pinwheel, licking and being licked...
CAUTION: SEX
Big Blonde and her officemates don't believe in flight; but the dragonfly-girl I meet hatched in mid-air...
My girlfriend and I can fly, but detectives follow us around. How to lose them? By sticking to the beach and...
CAUTION: BIZARRE CREATURES, FRANK LANGUAGE
A baby's own skin secedes, forming a snake. It prepares to eat the skinned baby. Shall I intervene?
A huge rubbery mass of skin complains I made it sick. I get tired of its whining, and...
I’m shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself...
When I see two scary men on the trail, naturally, I swallow my skunk! I really don't recommend...
My neurotic sister and I both lust for a girl named Sky; then I flee a gang of popes and lamas and mullahs...
My dead father said a trusted servant was stealing our goods through an unlocked skylight. This proved true...
While watching two rooftop actors (one a chicken) I noticed the icebergs in the sky were melting at last...
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm made nurse to her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
Business solved the problem of cheap foreign labor: slavery's legal again. So our firm buys cheap losers...
At boot camp for sex slaves, a rapist makes me a surprisingly tempting offer. But it's really not about sex at all, is it?
CAUTION: ORAL SEX, OUTRAGEOUS COMPARISON
As Mars demands independence from Earth, Jovians enslave us all! Now freedom-fighting is personal...
Our ranch has arsonist neighbors who call the cops and blame us for it! Meanwhile, my friend dreams...
Sledding at night, I approached the speed of light, and the stars turned colors I'd never seen...
I dream I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters. Wait a minute...
A girl lies dreaming in the street; no one can wake her. At last I yell "Face it, she's dead!" But is she? I never try a kiss...
I'm at a physics conference. A new force has been discovered that may allow faster than light travel...
An amber stream recurring in my dreams led me to meet a huge, strange being, Slithy...
Infected glass-cuts scar the vegan alligators in the park. As part of a cleanup, I'm told to EAT one...
A man who wants to love and respect all life has unwanted kitchen guests: a wave of slugs...
My friend and I are banana slugs on the forest floor. We wander out into chaparral, and across a bike path...
Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists and then an impossible fruit...
CAUTION: NUDE SCIENTISTS
After Shaw's Arms and the Man eclipsed my own play The Land of Heart's Desire, I dreamt that I was haunted by...
A cigar-smoking tyrannosaur's moved into the neighborhood, upsetting us bluebirds and vampire bats...
I tried to be like my classmates--use tools, control what I made. But I couldn't. It came alive, and...
Just a couple of soulmate snakes, entwined so totally I envied them...
I am given a dehydrated package of dried snake to insert in my vagina. Inside it will unfold and come to life...
CAUTION: KIDS, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
Two snakes fight as centipedes emerge from under rocks. I tell my best friend. Next day her co-worker tells her the same dream...
I'm a werewolf-girl in love with a gender-dysphoric weredragon in love with a man who's very, very patient with all our shiftiness...
CAUTION: NUDITY (SKIN, FUR and SCALE), SHIFTY PEOPLE (BI, WERE and QUEER)
Samuel Pepys dreamt of kidneystones, pee, come, & snot--or did he? Thomas Macauley dreams his niece confesses...
Lost in the snow, I must either give my baby to a stranger or let my dad put him in a box, safe, forever...
I'm a peace terrorist trapped in Squaw Valley, herded like a mare by a huge stallion made of snow...
And then the dream shifts and I blurt out the truth behind our idiotic waking world! And wake believing it...
My sexual orientation shifts arbitrarily, turned on one second, off the next. Who's at the controls?
CAUTION: SEXUAL CONFUSION
I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful...
In my drawing class it was antlers and bones and skulls, death death death till I was tired of MY bones...
A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know just dreamed--and now I'm unsure whose dream this is.
CAUTION: IDEAS
The night before he met his greatest student, Plato, Socrates dreamed he nursed a baby swan who grew...
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole...
A demigoddess and a wizard meddle with humans. But do even THEY know what they're assembling?
Millay, suffering from nightmares, decides to speak from Nightmare's point of view...
Numb, sunk in a trance, I only woke when I broke through a wall to light and magical birdsong...
A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream...
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain...
The future. Humanity's trapped--no energy. Because aliens looted our world before we evolved! Now...
Africa. My horse trusted me as we faced lions and fire, but to face the Soul-Board, he must trust himself...
I'm a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging our guru, a Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual "contamination"...
I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I wonder if the glut of human bodies creates a soul shortage...
CAUTION: ABSURD THEORY
As I reread decades of my dreams, I see Jung was right: even in times of chaos, soul-work goes calmly on...
Drawn on a trip to the Southwest as a kid. Felt like I'd lived there in a past life. Or I would in a future life...
I'm a kid again, gawking at the Space Needle. But a woman stands before it, who no one else can see:
CAUTION: NUDITY, A SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE
I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge, while an Anglo harangues me on the Space Race...
I wake to find I have two penises, one connected, one free-floating! How do its sensations reach my brain?
CAUTION: WANDERING WEENIES!
A voice told me, "Human beings have a spark of the divine"...
I dreamt a sparrowhawk perched on my shoulder. Next morning a friend was given a stuffed sparrowhawk. He crept up and...
A dead fern in my backyard starts sending me messages in some strange language...
I dreamed of speckled eggs, Caribbean drug traffickers and of almost drowning near a sinking boat...
My family moves into a damp basement. My dad just sneers at the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..."
A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now...
Trying to sculpt a dream-figure acting blatantly sexual teaches me it's as hard to show lust as supposedly subtler feelings...
CAUTION: NUDE SPHINX
A sphinx with equine traits; probably a precursor of the Krelkin, a sphinxlike alien who befriended me later...
Tehura was a beautiful sphinx exploring our human world; she led me to a new way of seeing us...
CAUTION: SPHINX BREASTS
Cover of a book telling my dream of a sphinx who visits humanity and leaves her sketchbook with notes...
After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx...
A preteen sphinx pleased with herself and her treebranch world...
A moody teenage sphinx treed by the hounds of her own disdain...
I'm a Lapp boy in northern Finland, studying shamanism. So why do I pour coffee down a driveway?
Leona's a fighter--she rejects compromisers like her husband, her friends, that girl she's been sitting on...
The world is a whirlpool, a black and white spiral pulling me down toward a black hole, and it's laughing...
A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines...
As my dad lies dying, I dream my sister and I face spiritual tests given by slacker angels who'd rather be on TV. Learn to let go!
I have a job setting up secret doors to other realities and creating paths through our world between them...
While I study how humans went extinct, my daughter happily splashes in the sea...
Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light...
I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too...
CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING
I feel split into warring impulses who argue, advise, ignore, and snipe at each other...
Lost in a dark maze of machine-shops, I follow Mr. Spock, who's drunk, and talks to tree-spirits...
CAUTION: ALCOHOL AS INSPIRATION?
I want to drink the elixir, but negative twenty spoons block me! Can I remove them? With warped teacup logic and reciprocals…
I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters...
CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME
No dream, no plot. I saw myself as a horse grazing in a forest of giant mosses, lifting spore-packets...
Divers made of ice swept the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. Did they cheat? I sought my friend the Sphinx...
A street poet preaches a gospel of smallness, until he pokes at capitalism in a slightly too personal way...
I'm a French revolutionary facing the firing squad. But palmistry predicted I'll face death yet be strangely saved...
I'm in a department store trying on clothes when I notice there's a large zucchini growing from my crotch...
CAUTION: SQUASHY PENIS, ICKY RECIPE
I couldn't find the motivation to do enough figure studies unless they were sexy, so...
CAUTION: SEX
Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped...
CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
Just an abstract birdlike acrylic squiggle I liked. Sorry, no story...
I'm slow to catch on that this guy's business-plan slideshow isn't about profit; it's about seduction...
CAUTION: ABSURD LOVE TRIANGLE, KINKY SKUNK
I went to bed with a stuffed wolf, and found myself in a hot tub with a cute wolf guy, only now I seemed plush...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
By a midnight lake, I comfort an abused girl in the mud. But then two figures with long knives appear...
I defeat the knife-wielder, in spite the blade in my belly I can't pull out. I may have to let it be...
I froze in dance class when I followed anyone else's script. Was it fear? A dragon inside said no...
A slightly surrealized San Francisco landscape--not that it needed much help...
CAUTION: PINK PAGAN TOES
An underage girl comes on to me, and then asks me to... throw her down a stairwell?!
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!
I found myself upon a stone pillar in a valley. Invisible people sat on other stalagmites, but my voice couldn’t reach them...
As a kid, my Ecotopian fantasy city was hollowed out of living rock, with hanging gardens and terraces...
My friend Stanley is a social icebreaker: thick-skinned, blundering, but useful. So why am I mad at him?
A sacred starfish piloting a Cessna plane survives a crash. But can it survive a boy's clumsy rescue efforts?
I squabble with my body so much! But sometimes, at the moment of orgasm, we dissolve into stars, and become...
CAUTION: SEX POETRY
I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning history of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
I meet the Red God of Running and Holly Golightly; we're all in the triathlon up the world's greatest peak:
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY...
CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE
I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts...
John Lee, sentenced to die, dreamt he walked to the scaffold but the trapdoor stuck. He woke, told his jailors the dream, and...
He said "Oh, Mom, I had a terrible dream. A car ran me down." I said we could not live by dreams or we live a life of horror...
I dreamed the Stealth Bomber wasn't a machine, but a gigantic Owl-god. And Stealth was worshiped...
CAUTION: CREEPING PACIFISM
As the steamroller flattened me I tried to rise above it all and my body became quite a lovely stained-glass window...
Two realities pester me like big spoiled babies to care for their mythic figures, till I go on shamanic strike...
My unconscious sabotages a lunch date with my friend Stephanie. The tricks get weirder, till...
A man in a blue coat on a white horse delivered papers from a nearby wrecked ship, signed Stephenson and Bell. I awoke, and...
Stevenson's dreams changed over decades: from childhood nightmares to creative allies dreaming whole stories...
The tollman on the new bridge to the Land of the Dead revives a beheaded woman by RANDOM action...
A woman masturbates constantly at work, then greets businessmen with her hot sticky handshake...
CAUTION: SEX
When I start feeling worthless, I paint myself. But which me?
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM
First a mutant doe with stilt legs has trouble finding a mate; then a centauroid buck with a parasol shows us he means... business.
A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson...
CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
I envy and resent a rich family's mansion so much I break in and sabotage their giant meat freezer...
CAUTION: HOSTILITY, ENVY, WASTE OF BAD FOOD
I dreamed a small plane crashed and burned, but also how the pilot might be saved. I asked my husband to direct the firetruck...
Just a soft sketch of two dancers...then this loud slutty stomping woman leapt into the center...
WARNING: NUDITY.
I love curves, not the chunky forms of this machine-ruled world...
Not a dream--I just found myself painting Potatohenge...
In a stadium somewhere, watching a game where a slender reptilian man pitched rocks...
I kill with an angry wish! I hide the bodies, but secretly pray someone'll catch me before I snipe again...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, GUILT
Two child prodigies fail to stop the assassins stalking President Obama, but a geeky guy with a home-made laser...
I'm sentenced for a crime I didn't commit; then the bailiff beats me for "resisting", though I'm not...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, SWEARING
The first drop struck about four miles away, with terrific force and thunder, breaking and drowning the land beneath...
All the actors auditioning for Shaw’s play are weird mixtures of human, avian, and bestial. And Shaw’s in the balcony, listening...
This strange girl reminds me "I rode your bike recently but you've forgotten." She's right--she rode it in an earlier dream...
The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices...
I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species...
Do it now! I'm doing it. I'm getting up from the keyboard and stretching. I am a cheetah...
A vivid nightmare that turned out a week later to be devastatingly true ...
Five short dreams exploring the weight of culture on our animal selves...
I meet a woman on an oxcart who's sure we all want to poison her--but that's made her forgiving, even noble...
CAUTION: MADNESS
Girls flash and strip and crawl into bed with me, but I'm blind to their agenda--till I become a snakeboy and discover the real limitations of phallic symbolism...
CAUTION: NUDITY, STUPIDITY
Half our religion-founders were just one guy coming back till he got it right. Well, practice makes perfect...
The couple guarding the bridge over the River Styx, the Crocodile King and the Geisha Queen, rarely seemed to agree...
Earth scientists ignore the natives' tales of abyssal monsters, but the locals easily track a Terran sub...
Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone...
CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)...
I was anorexic for years before I found I was allergic to many foods--I had good reason not to eat!...
I’ve had premonitory dreams of friends’ deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action...
Walking down the street, I suddenly change sex! At first I'm happy, but I find unexpected disadvantages...
My sister and I are on a ship abandoned by its crew, heading full-steam for the rocks, when...
I turn shy with women I like. So I wish for a dating coach, who appears! Then I feel dumb: how come I...
I'm with a flutist I like, but she's busy playing. So I conjure a second her with the free time to listen to herself with me...
I had to sell my horse Shadow, but I missed him so much I painted my love for him. As I finished, a strange impulse led me...
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 find the cure for an alien plague, then visit the world it came from, to find it has a curious variant...
CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
Multiple tornadoes touched down in the fields, but the farmer's wife sewed in a rocking chair, oblivious. I moved to warn her but my lieutenant said...
I careen from a shamanic laboratory to a shattered ring round an alien world to (gasp) an honest politican...
What you call dreams are just the surf-zone between waking and dream! Swim out past the foam to the deeps and you'll find...
Through twin gates of dream--not ivory and horn any more, but fear and trust...
Three castles on the sea, lovely or lame: 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...
Skimming over the lake on surface tension as two sharks prowl beneath, I'm not sure who's fishing for whom...
I hijack a Lacewing Chopper to install a new rubber-band engine, but the motor becomes a talkative penis, and...
CAUTION: ONE WEIRD WEENIE
I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man named...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A gigantic herd of buffalo stampede toward me. I panic, then surrender in peace to what is surely my death...
When I flee the Psychodrama Circus to avoid being stabbed, it explodes! But it's the sushi that really upsets me...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI
The tale of the most truly sincerely religious revelation I've ever witnessed...
CAUTION: REAL WITCHES
The ruins of the Sutro Baths in San Francisco were the setting for an otherworldly dream...
I dreamed that I drew our dog and me mating, and then found the drawing on a gallery wall for all to see...
CAUTION: CARTOON BESTIALITY
Chapman dreams he must go to London and stand on London Bridge; when he does, a stranger tells him "dreams are nonsense! Why, I dreamt of buried treasure a hundred miles from here, in some town called..."
An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
Navaho country felt like home--the land, the art, the animals, the language. Trapped in suburbia, I drew...
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns. I track down who cursed me...
It's hard to fly without a plane, but I try, over a lonely lagoon. Until I panic some nesting swans...
I pull my mom's sweater onto my legs but get tangled (and bits of anatomy dangle). Worse, I'm emulating Jesus...
CAUTION: WARDROBE DYSFUNCTION. IN FACT, GENERAL MASCULINITY DYSFUNCTION.
Swimming down among the tentacles didn't bother me. I wanted that ball. But I didn't see the BIG eye...
I have recurring dreams of a figure broken up by hair the color of the background...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
Following two cats at night, I watched in amazement as they dove in and swam gracefully across a swimming pool...
On a cruise to Catalina Island, I find friends, a boyfriend and a magical sea of color...
I met an elfin girl who's tattooed realistic vaginas all over her body, as... decoys? For she has...
CAUTION: NUDITY, TATTOOS, TABOOS...
I visit my friend Xanthe's lungs, where a swordswoman in a red bikini gives me a unicorn. The next day...
I slept late and felt a bit stiff, but until my friends pulled it out of my neck I had no idea...
Dusk. A plain. A troop of swordsmen approach me, draw their weapons... and toss their spinning, shining swords to the stars...
I'm Sybil Sue, a hard-boiled shapeshifting shamus, on the track of the most wanted bankrobbers in LA: the Bad Girls...
CAUTION: IN BETWEEN GUNSHOTS, THE BAD GIRLS SWEAR
Sylvia, the fabulous Dog Singer, leads me through a spy film, a French romantic farce, Fellini's Rome...
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?