I like bad taste. Taste always tasted like another Anglo conspiracy to keep me from having fun...
A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe...
My sister and I are playing cards in the air high over Lake Tahoe. Playing for the world. And she cheats...
A friend, stockpiling for Armageddon, makes me see that I value something peculiar: the knowledge of...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
An alien is taking over our world, and I feel so helpless that even when I wake I want to just forget the dream...
I'm in Japan, where Rumiko Takahashi tells me of a tragic chicken who longs to be a lounge singer...
Since I've been seeking out, talking with, and turning into unicorns a lot in the last few years...
CAUTION: ANTI-FUNDAMENTALIST
Not a guy with a tan. Yves Tanguy was a sailor who became a Surrealist. When I was nine or ten, his work inspired me to try my first landscape drawings...
Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me...
My wound's taped up, but hurts bad. I peel off the bandage... nothing! Gone. So I check my other body...
Solve a hieroglyphic riddle and you can fly, shapeshift, work magic! But someone doesn't want me solving that riddle...
The traditional figure is blindfolded, holding two crossed swords. I used crossed TV antennae...
Three friends in a garden pledge loyalty forever with a toast of the wine of the heart...
Floating in tears, have you noticed the other cups behind you, unspilled?
Giving up a wall of material treasure for the moonlit path...
The card confirming those silly fears are true. The nightmare is real. You're in trouble...
The card of excessive self-denial, whether compulsive or artistic or spiritual...
The card of building your dream no matter what. I dreamed I met the Primal Builder...
The card of fertility--and the pangs and effort of starting a new thing...
Mind and body integrated. S/he can hold up even the world-serpent that the gods couldn't lift...
CAUTION: ANDROGYNOUS CENTAUR BREASTS
The card of big messes, confused beginnings--and fertilization...
When the Birth card's reversed, the child clings to the womb like a burrow in a green meadow.
The card of force not always used wrongly. The Knight says, "Sometimes ya gotta bust a few heads..."
The card of caring, caregiving, and compassion...
When the card CARING comes up reversed, you wake up with this crucified guy floating over your bed...
The sea-captain, baby bottle in hand... The card of the warm man, the nurturer...
So you die, and to your secular surprise, your soul or psyche (which does after all mean butterfly) metmorphoses into...
It's time to tackle that unpleasant task. But so what? You know how. And you have gloves...
Some folks are dogs, bullying those below them, fawning on those above. But if the Wizard is a Humbug...
Earth is always shown from the side, never its axis. But from the pole, it's a vast wheel: the real Wheel of...
Using the mind's blade humbly, respecting ideas and people, clarity's disciple may not see her own power...
Humor's one of the big emotions--laughter's as loud and uncontrollable as crying or orgasm...
Hokule'a, the "Star of Gladness", guided Polynesians across thousands of miles of ocean...
Jupiter's massive presence tugs its moons to geologic life. Just being exerts a power and a pull...
The card of driven leaders. It's so refreshing to hear someone honest and passionate. Right? Well...
The card of love. I'm not sure what genders the lovers are, but no matter...
Jung said most people let one aspect of life dominate them. The Mage balances them...
When you start thinking and scheming hard, you can end up "amazed": lost in a maze of choices...
True teachers and leaders do exist, with vision enough to make seeds (and people) sprout...
Deep down in the strata inside you, gems lie waiting in the dark. Waiting for this child to dig them free...
Time, tide, cycles... In this phase, the hourglass is full, life brims over. Passion's time. Action's time...
Time, tide, cycles... At ebb, the hourglass drains, the tide recedes, life hides in the cracks...
That moment when you recognize a kindred spirit, and realize he or she feels that way too...
Groundless fears slow you to a crawl, testing every step of a clear, safe path...
The knight of creative fire, who takes over when you've mastered technique but kept your passion...
I dream I'm giving a friend a Tarot reading, and the card she picks for herself is one I've never seen:
You get to fill one tray. Guns sex jewels pot hamburgers TV boredom God power thrills love? Choose!
The card of revolution! The old towers of strength come down, not through war but obsolescence...
The card of intuition, dreams--and asking. She knows all the secrets. And might just tell you, if...
Those of you who see or sense auras know how rare it is to meet someone with all four cylinders firing...
At the Dream Circus, a grumpy little greenish Scotsman rode a sulky, pulled by a playful black horse who...
A wild, happy, homicidal dragon who forced me to fight it midair over Lake Tahoe...
Find your strength in dreams: facing (and befriending) what you've feared, or fought...
The card of fatigue and rest. Tarot's so primal--never a dull moment. Well, take a break...
Having (or living with) a sharp mind is like living with a unicorn. That horn can kill or heal...
I dreamed I was the Spirit of Mexico: a winged coyote flying around Sonora howling at the moon...
The Well of Emotion, guarded by the Black Unicorn, the shadow of all the feelings you deny...
I get speared by Irish warriors, slipped an LSD dose, chased by giant spiders, torpedoed--but hey, I'm not bored!
Well, Tarzan and Jane are living in suburbia now, but though Tarzan's given up so much, Jane complains...
I was warned Wolf-Cats turn on people, but I still befriended one. Now I'm looking down its throat...
I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook and notes...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS
A weird little identity-confusion at a dance suggests I'm simultaneously psychic, autistic, and... stupid.
Edward Abbey shows me a secret grove of telepath trees. That night, they meet me in my dreams...
My cold-sensitive dinosaur friend makes a find at our archeological dig by thinking like the Old Ones...
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: A TEMENOS IS A SACRED PHALLIC IMAGE
A toxic site in Silicon Valley isn't a chemical spill, but angry ghosts, killed in a camp and forgotten...
CAUTION: THE CAMP TURNS OUT TO BE REAL
While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a nice moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we?
CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
Teresa mistrusts men. Her best friend Sabina comes on to me in front of Teresa, who blames me...
CAUTION: NUDITY, BETRAYAL, GENDER PARANOIA
I dreamed I had to take a bewildering test on who is allowed in the military. I flunked. So will you...
CAUTION: MOCKS HOMOPHOBES
The moon as an early gilled fetus. I feel like a half-developed creature walking around in your dry air...
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: IMPLIED SEX
Tour a rugged, spectacular moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE
An artist I know dismisses her (gorgeous) art as just therapy... while the museums are full of trash. Why?
I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was...
I misname my feelings: depressed for sad, paranoid for wary, phobic for scared. It has consequences...
I'm in Theremin's lab, around 1930, trying to play one of his experimental instruments. Why won't it work?
Usually I wobble on high heels--but with four feet, I may be stable enough to follow the Yellow Brick Road...
CAUTION: NUDITY
My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape, and turn feral to survive. I'm back in school now, and in therapy... but how we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink won't believe...
CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS
My sisters and their best friends all use me for sex. Sick, but I discover it's better than I USED to be...
CAUTION: JUST PLAIN EMBARRASSING
I was a mermaid trying to find Count Coyote's stolen dreams, so I could marry my human girlfriend...
CAUTION: GAY MARRIAGE, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
Visiting Time City, I witness the "suicide" of a woman named Thieu but suspect it was really assassination...
CAUTION: SUICIDE? MURDER?
The animal goddess of peace, stubbornly raising her sign, my sign, as you all slide into your nice holy war...
I dream normal women don't turn me on--I like the 30,000 little aliens who just landed! I wake to see an ad about them on a passing bus... and it turns out I'm NOT still dreaming...
I live in a beehive. We must mate with dogs. I'm assigned a bitch. But I'm allergic to gods! Oops, I mean...
CAUTION: SEXUAL THEME, DOGGESS WORSHIP
Two gunmen break in, call me by a strange name, and demand I repay a loan I never borrowed...
Dream-inspired landscape with herons and wild horses in a vaguely Japanese style...
A 'toon liberation dream. I cartooned a new self and slowly she grew realer, until she ran Disney...
CAUTION: FRANK SINATRA SWEARS
I was barren. I asked Asklepios, God of Healing, to make me pregnant. Soon I was. And so I stayed--for 3 years, until...
All over the planet, hands have gone soft, pliable. I meet some animals evolving into people and advise them:
I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. I dream she leads a revolution on a starship...
A woman in Tibet disassembles herself! A local god hires her spirit, but she uses the office equipment...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
What the world looks like when you have environmental illness, like me...
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 raised in the redwoods in the nest of a black tiger. Only a foster child, but emotionally, I'm...
An alien tiger and his human girlfriend show me a cube of raw flesh, and herd me to a house... but why?
I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis! My friend suddenly couldn't roar...
I drilled new poles in my globe and tilted the Earth. Ice Age or Carboniferous? Flood or drought? Come visit tropical Antarctica, the Thai Desert, the Hawaiian glaciers, the jungles of France!
Golfing in the basement! But the ball lands in another world, where the water hazards are hazards...
I'm a mortal time-tech, living in the Commune of the Gods, when I meet Little Red Riding Hood...
Wandering through time, I forget how much other cultures fear witches. I think I provoke a shooting!...
Our band's touring Titan. Road trip blues: diners, feuds, romances. Have I been chasing the wrong girl?
Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake...
I loyally served a demon who punished me until at last he sent me to hell. And STILL I didn't rebel...
CAUTION: BLOODY ABUSE
I'm in Houston, gawking at giant starfishy towers looming through the smog. Their shapes are familiar...
How the world was really created. God said "Let it be well done" and it was well done.
CAUTION: TECHNOLOGICAL BLASPHEMY
My foot is a torso and my toes sprout conflicting personalities...
CAUTION: STUPID CARTOON NUDITY
I walk in a vast graveyard full of history's most famous people. But it's all fake, built as a test...
I dreamed that nouveau-riche half-ton polar bears invaded San Francisco, evicting us locals...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE COMING TO YOUR TOWN SOON
A hero has solved all Earth's problems. Now what? A trucker friend invites him on a road trip to Mars...
The government quietly ends all taxes and services in a small town just to see what'll happen...
They call it the information highway because we're all supposed to march in formation...
Why's Mexico City built where it is? And why is corn called "ears"? It turns out these questions are linked...
A traveling torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when at last I have to sleep...
CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE
I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting (as well as puns) with the cat...
A bouncy, lobe-by-lobe musical tour of your brain with Buddha as your tourguide...
I kept seeing the image of a creature like someone in a Tove Jansson book...
Cities are fun when you're a bird--all those updrafts and perches and nests with great views...
Long ago he cut a deal with the cops. But town's grown, and one victim fights back. Our thief is outraged...
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us...
Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
I'm on a wild trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom and my dead dad... and who's that other guy?
In an oneirophobic society, it's easy to forget that when you do dreamwork, you're doing basic science. No funding, no team, no lab coat? Can't be science! Unless they mistaught us what science is...
A maneless lion-boy wins his people's respect. While training, he sees weird trespassers who seem to be from someone else's dream... and ten years later, he finds that dreamer.
Nearly abstract but not quite. The snake, the quill pen, the secretary bird, and the rose.
We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until...
Everyone squishing away contentedly but me... watching curled up in the corner as usual...
CAUTION: EXPLICIT SEX, BESTIALITY
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
The manhunt is on for Donald Trump, rich sociopath. But he too is pursuing something: happiness...
A lawyer sends me a letter full of fox-girls! In Asia foxes mean trouble, but instantly I know they mean...
Changelings invade our space station, testing one kid's split loyalties. But it's the beans that intrigue me...
Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him...
Turn a globe upside down. All Earth's winds and currents reverse; wet coasts turn dry, dry turn wet; ice caps shift, sea levels change...
A man mocks the turtle he caught, calling it "inept"--what's an adept turtle, then? I distract the guy while it...
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine...
I read Barbara Tuchman's history of the American Revolution and had to paint this portrait of George...
CAUTION: TRANSVESTITE PRESIDENTIAL ICONOGRAPHY
A "friend" gives me her TV. Turns out there's a small-minded devil in it who cheats on all his deals...
Twain saw a coffin with white and red flowers. Inside lay his brother Henry. A few days later the riverboat Henry worked on exploded...
I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones...
CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM
I twirled pinups into surreal not-quite-abstracts, to see just how twisted sex could get...
CAUTION: NAKED PRETZELS
My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
A tribute to Hokusai's sketches. A crane and a fairy were out drinking, and now can't fly home...
In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
Two Inuit talk of sun and moon and birds and little ghosts who sneak up on you...
An assassination plot using two planes triggers an invasion of our kingdom. I'd rather be playing Frisbee...
In our plot to kill the Tyrant, we used his wife. Or... did she use us? She goes mad, but--she's HAPPY...