The messiah of a suicide cult prepares to ritually sacrifice me. Then a miracle occurs! But... whose?
I'm in Middle Earth, interviewing hobbits who've experienced a phenomenon called Summoning...
I'm a Wapato Bird: part crane, part elk, part tree-bud. Despite shyness, I must lead our people's migration...
My life was a sex disaster. I made myself ugly and sick. But then one night I dreamed I found a healer...
WARNING: NUDITY
I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies through the center of the earth, and now I understand volcanoes...
Dodging between all your -isms, I feel like a bird on a battlefield...
George Washington faces sniper fire, kamikaze birds and voices claiming the fight for freedom is hopeless...
A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
I'm a biologist who finds an 'extinct' species in a slum. But the survivors speak: they tell me I'm one of them, just hypnotized to think I'm human... And when I wake, another kind of cultural hypnosis is exposed:
A stylized waterfall, sort of a distillation of all those childhood summers camping in Yosemite...
I'm an intelligent rabbit in an alphamale's harem, organizing a feminist movement...
I'm a lean loose cheetah who works best in short bursts and long rests. I overwork when I get too human...
These sketches bare my work process: I multitask, but without planning, in a flow state. I really do "follow my bliss"!
After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
I only meet my wolf-soulmate in recurrent dreams...
CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES
My personality is borderline multiple: they veto and sabotage each other if not consulted first via dreams...
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me out of my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light. Wait!
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I meet my own muse--the muse of all of us, perhaps--scooping water from a sacred well...
On a world of designer genes, the Prime Minister tries to kill the Bug Princess by deluding an innocent lawn...
I find the well of women's wisdom. Lucky I had a sex change! A girl sneers "this wisdom's narrow." Is it?
I'm on a world inhabited by hobbits when H.G. Wells shows up, looking for a Ring of Power...
Ari neglects Wendy till she doubts she's sexy. I show her she is. But am I using her too?
CAUTION: SEX TALK
For flirting in the astral cafeteria, we all get sentenced to group therapy--till I catch the lie in my life...
I help a brilliant, starving composer turn his family curse into a profitable business...
I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure a girl from a...
God's my boss, but like a bratty little brother, he's Not Speaking To Me. It's slowing down our office...
CAUTION: CHRISTIANS WON'T WANT TO KNOW
The real pursuit of happiness: Happiness pursues ME, and I run in shame and hide! But she's persistent...
The world needs Zen cards, to balance out the Tarot. Here's my Zen pack--all one of them. One too many.
A cowgirl is driving us in circles round the dusty parking lot, fleeing the air-sharks... or is she?
My sister and I get into an argument about different kinds of incest, in embarrassing circumstances...
CAUTION: POST-ORGY HYPOCRISY
I cut off my own head! But I grew a new one. Only... what do I do now with my old head? It's starting to rot...
CAUTION: SELF-DISMEMBERMENT
Lost in an industrial maze, my memories hopelessly out of date, I resign myself to be bound to the Wheel...
An empire of creatures who go into seasonal heat has affected its human neighbors--or bred a new type...
Why am I an outsider? Can I change? Do I want to? Even my dreams don't know. Then I wake to find my meditation itself was a dream, and the answer; as much of an answer as I'm going to get.
I find my mum under my bed, unconscious, her head cracked. And I wake knowing it means she'll lose her mind...
I was on a path winding over grassy hills, while humans zoomed by on a freeway below...
In cave times, while the men were out hunting, it was the women who learned to paint the cave walls to summon...
My face was leprous white like parchment; my eyes shone with a cold blue eerie light. I shrieked "Papa, don't you know me?"...
I'm a saurian forced to duel with a volatile friend. Wanting to fight fair, I don't just file down my spurs...
I dream of a being who uses her mane and tail to hide in plain sight, by breaking her image into bits...
I visit a dude ranch where you learn to be other species. A white mare I barely recognize says hello...
My girlfriend and I ride out the Great Flood in the White Submarine, but some things never change...
An invisible monster is eating my lettuce patch. It casts a huge blurry shadow, leaves footprints, but...
I'm assisting a hard birth as photos are shot for an article. Why's birth so rarely seen? What do we fear?...
I'm Pete Townshend of the Who, climbing stubbornly out of Hell by noticing what I don't want...
Someone's prowling outside my window. I'm paralyzed in bed, but I force myself into action...
Share? And who? And WHAT? Who knows who's your mate... and who's NOT?
I'm a hardboiled detective wincing as I grill a meek little psychic (who might just be me) about embarrassing subjects like unicorns, and love...
CAUTION: A UNICORN WHO MAKES EVEN THE COPS BLUSH
Some shy folks don't even know they're dragons....
When bent, some dried noodles shatter. The strands have auras like mine! Parts of me? Or are they...
Who were they? I don't know. But they were doing something powerful on top of that mountain.
I'm a Chinese kid fleeing the Japanese Occupation in 1938. As we near San Francisco, I wake to find it's all my dad's dream. Wait... he's alive again? But he wasn't a refugee. Is this a pastlife memory? But whose--him or me?
I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. Below Haunted Mansion, I meet a green lizard-lady in distress...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE
I get so mad at a bunch of cops who harass gays, that I become the sea itself and chase them...
CAUTION: UNCHARITABLE REPRESENTATION OF OUR SAINTS IN BLUE
A portrait of Snow White's eighth dwarf, the one Disney had to leave out...
In a dark wood, a gigantic wolfhound tore past me. My blood froze. The Wild Hunt was about to carry away a human soul...
We're exploring the English farm we inherited, when The Wild Hunt storms over the hill...
My dad steals my girlfriend! The maid and I spy on them; we get hot and do it, but it's not the same...
CAUTION: SEX WITH THE WRONG PERSON
At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me why she did it--and why she regrets it...
I didn't even think of "windbag" since it didn't talk a bit. That bag was all action--full of flying magic...
I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls. But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples...
Hot air rises, right? So there's a monsoon from Hell, lifting souls. Lucky for us that gravity balances it...
When my friends and I learn to fly, all of Middle Earth turns against us! Fleeing from Saruman's army, I bonk my head, exposing the backstage truth about our world...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DOOM, PHYSICS! YODA IN THE TUB!
An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW--no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void!
A winged serpentine beast from my dreamscape...
CAUTION: SNAKE BREASTS
I have a long chat with two talking songbirds. Next I'm a parrot, living in rainforest. And then the mail comes...
Here's an incantation to induce flying dreams. "Bring me wings NOW, or forever hold your peace..."
After teaching a class on color, I had a set of vivid dreams about color, and tried fusing them into one painting...
I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by...
CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION
A writer I meet either starts flirting with me obscenely, or advising me about eyecare, or... both?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
I wake up praying for love--and then realize my wish is contradictory, and revise it to...
A witch in the future invents a new way to terraform small dense moons--and it'd work!...
A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary. Can I find a good witch to love?
CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY...
Just a witchmas card spreading love and paganism to all, and to all a good night...
I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret. And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN...
A woman I had wronged set her pit bull on me! Hand in its jaws, I gave in, and we both began crying...
Six generations in the future, I find a poodle who can defuse the bomb my rival girlfriends can't...
CAUTION: MAD SCIENTIST, EXHIBITIONIST GIRLFRIEND, POODLE HUMILIATION
I have a tummy ache. Our local wizard says "no wonder, with fascists occupying your colon"...
CAUTION: TREATMENT NOT A.M.A.-APPROVED
A burrowing owl invites her friend the wolf over for tea. It sounds very Beatrix Potter, but...
Is there really that much difference between the rootless yuppies flooding the West, and war refugees?
Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME
After seeing 'Rear Window', Grace Kelly and I are wolf children in a pack that's quickly evolving into...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, CHILD SEXUALITY, WOLF-SLANDER
Thordhr dreams a pack of wolves attack him in a trade-booth! He wakes sure the trade-fair will be trouble...
A figure study teaches me a lesson about the sexiness of brains. And about the unsexiness of no brains...
CAUTION: NUDITY; LIBELS ILLINOIS
Nancy Friday describes a certain kind of guy disturbingly like me, and I realize chronic illness has made me...
I visit Earth during an all-female era. I'm a woman, can pass for local--so why do I lie to fit in?
CAUTION: SEXIST SLUR
A mystic postman delivers a letter on the world's best glasses and a reply in my own hand, telling how to find and clean them...
Cartoony self-portrait as I paint with Persephone's pomegranate paintbrush. A mock woodblock print...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY
I see great towers rising into a fog zone--or is it another universe, with different rules? How do you draw both worlds?
In bed with my sister and Emmanuelle of the sex films, I learn a little something about denial...
CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, INSIGHTS
I often dream of words forming on a page as their corresponding images dance around me. Here's an example...
A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: no sex, meat, alcohol, or cooked food; just meditate in rural solitude...
CAUTION: EXTREMISM
I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal...
CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM
The bird that carries the world through space, whose eye is the sun...
A world-mind I never really liked gets one thing right before it dies, and so I make my peace with it...
I dreamt the world itself hired me, at a generous salary, to report its great affairs exactly as they happen...
This little man comes into the chapel, makes a fascist salute, and catches fire. He burns right down to his shoes...
The same night I learn of the Kerouac Tree, a wise old man shows me the world's fair. Not the event...
Emily Dickinson ties up a worm she mistrusts. Bad move! It grows to a talking snake with a score to settle...
In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become my best friend's chair! Generous, huh?
I'm being stalked by Ricardo Montalban, playing Khan, from Star Trek. Why him, why me? I know why.
A writer's found in his office mating with an ash-covered creature! But could she be his muse?
CAUTION: NUDITY OR NOT? SEX OR NOT? NO ONE QUITE KNOWS...
Most writers search for their unique style. Not me--I struggle to convey unique EXPERIENCES...
I dreamed of a dragon-woman on a reef. She was my guardian, but she let me drown! She had her reasons...
CAUTION: SCALY NUDITY
An alternate Titan, Titan as it should have been, with ethane seas full of life...
I'm a dyke playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Some guys harass us and run into a tunnel. I follow...
A warning from my spirit wife, Silky, about the World Dream Bank. Building a cathedral of classic dreams is all very well, but what about NEW dreams?
CAUTION: NUDITY
I'm at a family dinner. Killer Grampa, kid-hating Ma, larcenous Dad. Then a bum offers some advice...
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
Another lie from those fiendish abstractionists. Turns out it's not a yellow ball at all...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
Restrain yourself! Or you too may end up on a giraffe rollerskating down the freeway singing perverted popsongs...
"I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it..."
In a dream, a dead friend told Mrs. Cl. how to cure her daughter's chronic illness: the yew tree. But yew is toxic...
Chips are faster than brains these days, so everyone's upgrading--everyone but me...
You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it?
I was nineteen again, riding my horse down a bad road in Virginia. After three hours, my horse spoke up...
A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier?
At work, a toxic potluck. I say no! And dream I'm a scent-oriented alien tossing back stink-grenades...
A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful opportunist, and they disentangle their lives...
CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE
Indescribable! I careen from a sacrificial marriage-altar to the secret pool of the Oracle Harpist, into the jaws of Leviathan and the joys of lucid flight, shifting from male to female and gay to straight--till I meet the Dragonfly People themselves...
CAUTION: STUPID, STUPID SEX CULT!
My cat dissolves in the shower. I follow her to a telepathic world. I want to stay, but can I?...
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."
I'm in an apartment co-op in Silicon Valley where people share their skills--till rush hour begins...
I wander a sunken maze, meet a playful woman, find a hidden treasure. Meanwhile, my friend Zooop...
I find the truth about my childhood. My parents lied! I hide for days, then dub myself Zucchini Girl and go onstage, humping squash, calling it performance art! So do my friends see a problem?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
It's true: after death, angels advise you where to go next. But what if you get an over-eager travel agent?