I flew over a forest. I noted the trees were all the same, and told myself to remember this...
At the airport, a new automatic photo booth shoots your memories! Julie can't resist... and emerges, excited, to find that...
Writer Alice Miller tried painting her childhood monsters. I tried it her way and got a surprise message...
I mail a packet of letters that will solve everyone's problems, but then a man points out how much we need problems...
In a suburban alley, I learn how much of an artistic coward I've been...
At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me...
Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her...
CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK
I dream of Beren and Luthien happy and mortal in their forest, and wake to find...
I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory...
Every decade or so, I dream a loved one says farewell and walks down an avenue of trees. I wake to find that person's dying...
Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe...
I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Mall Dictator (of all people) helps me start to heal, and learn to fly...
CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE
Augustus was ill, but a friend's dream prompted him to leave his tent before Brutus's assassins...
"There is going to be an explosion of two or three millions of gallons of oil or gasoline in Bayonne in three weeks or three months..."
A black beetle points out I'm not needed or at home in the human world, and insists my lifework is elsewhere...
As I hike across the tundra, to win a bet with God, I realize I've subtly betrayed my dreams...
In the future, books morph as they crawl round the web, till just the popular bits are left...
CAUTION: YOU TOO COULD BE CENSORED
By day, I bike across San Francisco; by night, I'm an abused English heiress with a dangerous artifact...
CAUTION: MOLESTATION BY DISSOLUTE COUNT
Should Anna quit hiding her psychic dreams? She dreams a cat eats her bird, and burglars loot an unprotected house. Maybe not...
I swim the flooded tunnels and pass the crocodiles to enter the house of mystics... but now what?
Quiet Blondie seemed sane enough, especially compared to her driven, talkative friend Crazy, until...
CAUTION: NUDITY, A LITTLE BLOOD
Throw a dream-crystal, or dangle it by a thread, and it'll point the way to go...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Mrs Griffiths has the same nightmare three times before she asks her nephew to skip a fishing trip...
I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free. But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object...
CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD
A thief was breaking in. I tried to flee, but my dad got in the way. Woke up, went out to my car, and found...
I'm analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ...
The moon invites me to go flying, but I get tired of magic and just want to go shopping...
Everyone wears a big cowboy beltbuckle. Twist it and your bodymass re-distributes! But mine...
CAUTION: CRASS AND CRUDE
A long terrible shiver, and my whole body broke like glass. I may live months, but in that dream I died...
I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house...
Malevolent artwork terrorizes my baby and me! What's to be done?...
Businessmen grow short trunks and their necks stretch. They drive VW Beetles with the sunroof open. Works in summer, but...
The night before Julius Caesar's assassination, his wife dreamed of his death and tried to warn him, but politics...
Wise advice from a funny looking centauress at a nude beach...
CAUTION: CRUDE NUDE
People SAY they like realistic characters they can identify with, but they don't ACT like it...
A vampire wrestler on the Throne of Heaven pins me. Visualization and prayer don't free me--in fact, they get me killed...
I'm warily crossing an avalanche chute in winter, when my worst fear happens. Then the slide speaks up...
I fall for a circus girl. Her brother is jealous, so all the dwarves show up with guns...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
I dreamt the King's coach got stuck in an archway on the coronation route. Awake, I checked the heights of coach and arch...
Coco Chanel's fashion workers all want me to have (public) sex with Coco's cat, so she'll stop screwing them financially...
CAUTION: SEX KITTENS
A rich man dreamt thrice that hidden in St Berner's Well near his house was a golden Collar. He reached in and...
CAUTION: OW
That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one.
That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and...
I dream an economist admits not only that eco-regs pay off, but that economic theory is faulty. Dream on!
I sought a dream of Helpers. But rather than give me gifts, they gave me a daunting challenge...
I dreamed I was camping by a creek. I went to get the soap and returned to find my baby son face-down in the water...
A carpenter named Taylor demolishes Netley Abbey in England despite dreams he’ll be crushed by falling stones from a window...
I dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong...
CAUTION: YUCK
Troutmet the moon-pigeon, Burtra the blackbird, a talking acacia, and my dead dad and gardener give me afterworld-advice...
A plague begins on terraformed Mars and spreads to Earth. Population biology made it inevitable...
CAUTION: OFFSTAGE POPULATION CRASH
I lead my daughter up a thorny path, but she’s getting badly scratched. Shall I leave her in that fishing village? She wants to...
I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but both pens and paper have mutated. Then a child prodigy explains “dreams don’t always want to be linear”...
I was planning my suicide when my friend a thousand miles away "Don't do that, Marion." Next day an airmail arrived...
SUICIDAL NARRATOR
We were on a train headed for a crash. No one was in the engine. Rather than jump, my friend insisted we try...
Are dreamworlds grim, on average? Do our dreams just express fears, or try to SOLVE our problems?
For about five years now I have been dreaming of this guy. Different dreams, same guy...
Distilling a dream to one key image can clarify it. But don't be ruled totally by traditional haiku form...
"I dreamed you were in the water, Daddy. There was tall grass all around, and you kept trying to come out of the water to me..."
My brother-in-law, Eddy, was out hunting with a young boy whose shotgun had its safety off. All of a sudden Eddy dropped...
What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts and feelings invade you? When other's BODIES invade yours, it's molestation...
Pa warns me to protect my paws. Gilt wounds my sole. A lioness eats a drumstick. Then a bus crashes on our corner--for real!
I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes...
On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
A monstrous Kafka beetle grows gradually out of my face. And it's a MESSAGE...
Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened...
My friends are all computer programs. But then, so am I. But it's not so bad, because...
CAUTION: DREAM-PUNS
I'm the First Lady. I have a dream that my husband's assassinated, and wake and try to warn him...
I meet William Blake! He says "The will is given us that we may know the delights of surrender." While in my bedroom...
A pod of whales in the sky and a circle of children dressed like seed-pods both beg me to interpret them...
My car's idling too fast. After hours of diagnosis, I notice a foot's on the gas! Only it's not MY foot...
"Oh no" she moaned. "I don't want Frankie to go to that camp. He must not go there." She began to cry...
A Scottish ghost leads us on a treasure hunt, but insists we stop to pick up small change. But it adds up...
It's nice hearing everyone praise my sex crimes, but I need to pull the dog from the golden horn...
CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE (OBVIOUSLY), GENERAL WEIRDNESS
At a benefit for Rock Psychiatrists, the Spirit of the Convention explains why I can't go on stage yet...
Gaia appears in a warning vision. However, she's not addressing humanity, but our silver successors...
Anna trusts to luck, but her mentor urges her to plan--"Think it out!" And what are these cards?
Gisli had two spirit-wives who told him in dreams how to evade the bounty-hunters after him... for 13 years!
I live in an asylum for fragile psychics. When one man over-uses his talent, he compulsively eats glass...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
I hear voices: "The road to success is in Kafkat, in a place called Goshen." I look back, and see seven male shadows...
In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear...
Just singing about the antigravitree lightens me. I bound around town. But then I find a diseased antigravitree is holding me down. It's become a gravitree! Gotta clear out that deadwood, no matter how messy, if I want to fly...
I dream I'm addressing a dream convention, but I'm autistic! I MUST act bizarre, just to function...
After seeing the cast of Glee interviewed, I dream I'm a paranoid cripple in music school who goes from...
Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Landing in Hawaii, I dream of a magical twilit cove I must swim across. The eve of leaving, there it is...
A dying colleague haunts me all night. He says "crossings are often unpleasant" but death's not bad...
I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I...
One of London's last Protestants dreamed Bloody Mary would find the congregation's member-list and burn them all...
I dreamed I hit and killed a small boy in the road. Three weeks later in Manchester I swerved and just missed the same boy ..
Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night my dream Helpers declared them Sioux...
I find bargain homes in a hidden tract by the river. I think "My sister's house-hunting, call her!" She calls me. Guess what she's buying...
I'm a librarian in an English village hit by waves of new philosophies and lifestyles. And I learn what works:
Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters...
Soon after my husband's death, I dreamed he pointed at a small black bag I'd stored unopened. I found it held insurance policies...
Xerxes twice dreams a god orders him to attack Greece. So he asks his uncle to dream of the god and check his credentials...
I was on a plane... It was almost graceful, the plane actually entered the building before everything dissolved into flame...
CAUTION: DEATH. DEATH TWICE.
Twice a condemned man's wife dreamt of a key hidden in rubble below a wall. The second time she went out and found it...
Swayed by sinister surgeons, I go all Buddhist and give up my attachments, including various organs...
CAUTION: DIVESTABLE GENITALIA
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
A psychic dream revealing my co-worker's secret desire gets tangled with the death of Truman Capote...
My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall...
I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing...
CAUTION: UNROMANTIC
Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see...
George sees a cart-crash pinning a friend. He yells to bystanders to free the wheel, but they can't hear him...
De Bray dreamed a speeding car nearly hit him; a month later, he abruptly recognized the street from his dream and paused...
Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL?
Elizabeth tried to tell her dream, but her husband didn't listen. When his dad didn't show up for dinner, it was too late...
The opal fell out of my ring somewhere around town. I was heartbroken at the loss. But that night my husband dreamed...
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 dreamed the bus lurched, cracking my skull. Next day, on the bus steps as in my dream, I braced myself, and...
Parkinson dreamed his new telephone device got added to an anti-aircraft gun. He told his dream; guns with M9 units turned out to be so accurate it gave the British hope against the Luftwaffe...
An un-jealous wind lifts me above the San Francisco hills, so I can hunt for my love: the Muse...
A traveler dreams his friend's attacked, but he discounts it. Next he dreams his friend begs him to expose the killer at least...
My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous!
CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF
I meet a shapeshifting dream-mentor who warns of plague and war (note the date). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved...
CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA
I'm cold and dark and disoriented! What am I doing wrong? Nothing--I'm just halfway to Alpha Centauri...
I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is...
I saw my mother standing on the tip of one wing of our plane. She was dressed in white flowing robes and calling my name, warning me of danger...
I happily meditated alone in a monastery. But when I woke, I couldn't see how to act on the dream. Then a friend visited...
Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and...
My dreams support a radical break from my past--to let go of possessions and friends in a cross-country move...
After Myrna’s husband gave up diabetes treatments to die at home, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered...
Nebuchadnezzar dreams a voice from heaven commands a great tree be cut; Daniel predicts the king will go mad for 7 years...
My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers?
Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations?
I dream I don't love my girlfriend, I just confuse non-abusive treatment with love....
I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
On New Year's Eve, I dream my college no longer welcomes me, and wake to find it's true...
I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed...
CAUTION: SEX
My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why?
I'm at the info desk in a futuristic library. But one question leads me into a DNA-helix, a tornado of doubt...
I'm authorized to play high-stakes poker with a scary-looking but rather nice demon...
I'm a Martian revolutionary, making the glaciers grow. The equator's still dry, but change is coming...
I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation! Why do I think this is all about money?
The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him?
Am I a punk dyke or a shy ballerina? Both! And they're complementary facets. Underwear never lies...
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...
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...
I recognized the saboteur. If I had neglected that dream warning I and probably all the men with me must have been drowned...
I'm trapped in a post-apocalypse pulp story! Fun for my readers, but not for me! How to escape?
I smelled scorching paint; my old heater was about to burn the house. But I'd moved--heater and house were six blocks away...
Howe's sewing-machine design didn't work until, one night, warriors stuck him in a soup-pot, jabbing him with needle-sharp spears...
CAUTION: OUCH!
At a party, a sad girl attracts me. But to reach her, I must have an affair with a sexy, frustrated writer...
A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do...
CAUTION: SEX
Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor...
CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
A great teacher abruptly blanks out. Memory loss is scary, but in the empty moment, a deeper fear emerged:
I ask my dreams how to find love. I dream of a 1920s bohemian girl teasing stuffy folk. But her pranks turn dangerous, then deadly...
A strange thing appeared in the sky. It kept transforming--a light, a sheep, a man. It advised me to stop burning my head...
I find a shy sphinx hiding in the corner of a painting in a dull art class. But maybe she's right to hide...
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...
My dead father said a trusted servant was stealing our goods through an unlocked skylight. This proved true...
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!
A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream...
A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson...
CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species...
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..."
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.
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?
The card confirming those silly fears are true. The nightmare is real. You're in trouble...
It's time to tackle that unpleasant task. But so what? You know how. And you have gloves...
A friend says lucid dreaming doesn't matter--you can even fly awake if you clearly will it. So I jump...
A stallion reared to strike me. He was all the fear and rage I’d repressed for 35 years. I cowered til a woman said “offer him...
I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was...
I'm in Theremin's lab, around 1930, trying to play one of his experimental instruments. Why won't it work?
Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit... and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch.
I dream I play 7 and win three times at Monte Carlo, wake, tell my friends, and head for the casino with witnesses...
I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)...
CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED
All over the planet, hands have gone soft, pliable. I meet some animals evolving into people and advise them:
A black dog leads me into the fairy wood. I'm tempted to find out what happens to people who walk under the tree where the Lightning Tiger lurks...
I saw the Titanic go down and people struggling frantically in the water. After my second nightmare I told my wife. She urged me to...
Hecuba dreams she gives birth, not to a child but a flaming torch! But she lets Paris live...
CAUTION: MORAL NO-WIN SITUATION
I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting (as well as puns) with the cat...
Two photographic developing tanks disappear. I assumed theft til I dreamt they were in a room I'd never seen, in locker FJA 39...
My wife dreamt where to find her lost umbrella; the next day she did. But the finder said word for word what she had in the dream...
Our landlady was a friend, but now breaks her word, ups our rent. Talk, compromise, or rent strike?
After a visit from our landlady's angry, crazy son, a pack of vicious dinosaurs invades our house...
I dreamt my son Walter drowned in the creek by a certain tree. I woke in tears, and resolved to warn him...
My sister just bought a biocomputer: an enslaved human brain in a box of weeping skin...
My friend's ignorant of our Congressional race. I loathe Pombo, but I can't pronounce his rival McNerney's name right...
Lost in an industrial maze, my memories hopelessly out of date, I resign myself to be bound to the Wheel...
Thordhr dreams a pack of wolves attack him in a trade-booth! He wakes sure the trade-fair will be trouble...
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...
I'm to be beheaded. Guards chant "It's important to enjoy what you're doing." I know my spilled blood will create a work of art...
I dreamt the world itself hired me, at a generous salary, to report its great affairs exactly as they happen...
In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become my best friend's chair! Generous, huh?
Most writers search for their unique style. Not me--I struggle to convey unique EXPERIENCES...
In a dream, a dead friend told Mrs. Cl. how to cure her daughter's chronic illness: the yew tree. But yew is toxic...
I walked into a 19th century home--and family quarrel. Suddenly decades passed in seconds, and the house burned--with me inside.
Two years later I learned by chance that the house and its history were real...
A doll sent from China breaks into tears over her exile here in Japan. I reassure her and she becomes real...
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."