Hillary Clinton hid her cancer, but the GOP found out. So a monster kidnaps Rainbow Brite, and...
I searched rivers and lakes around the world for someone dead. But the living people I met were as strange as ghosts...
Agassiz, faced with a fossil he had to crack open, was unsure where to strike. But for three nights he dreamed...
I was always the weakest magic-worker I knew. But when demons threatened my grandchild...
Two giants wrestle in the Chinese mountains. Who'll win, Red or Yellow? But when I wake...
My eighth grade class is a flock of birds migrating south for the winter, but we don't migrate the easy way...
I'm a homeless elf. We're a persecuted minority group. I know I'm dreaming and try to change it but...
I'm a flightless bird hopping down a line of marble columns rising from the sea, as they topple behind me...
The world is a whirlpool, a black and white spiral pulling me down toward a black hole, and it's laughing...
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?
I had a dream about a beautiful dragon. It is not easy to put something from your dream onto paper...
I'm hiking through the Catskills when a gigantic amoeba comes slipping over the hills...
I'll win a house if I can survive a night in the Haunted Pavilion! But it turns out I've been here before--before I was born...
CAUTION: GHOST ORGY
An epic dream on the lifelong effects of unrequited love, compressed into seven stanzas...
Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-fragments, wasn't so sure...
My friend Catherine dreamed she was a flying mare with golden hooves. But in real life, she lost them...
How did my bondage dream turn into a slot-machine jackpot? And what kind of change is pouring out?...
CAUTION: (CON)SENSUAL BONDAGE
Our ranch has arsonist neighbors who call the cops and blame us for it! Meanwhile, my friend dreams...
My boyfriend's a student in an exotic monastery. But under his robe, he's gotten a bit exotic himself...
CAUTION: SEXUAL DREAM
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
For about five years now I have been dreaming of this guy. Different dreams, same guy...
First I met a deer-man in the woods. Next week I go lucid, then wake up... only to find I'm still dreaming. And wake again. And wake, and wake...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree (at least until that visitor from Porlock barged in...)
CAUTION: POET ON PAIN MEDS
My housemate's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest...
CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES
I’ve had premonitory dreams of friends’ deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action...
While going through a painful breakup, I kept having sexy, lucid, psychic dreams...
My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure...
Wayan dreams of surprising Dawn on the toilet while she dreams that flushing away evidence of Foul Play won't work...
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
Emily Dickinson ties up a worm she mistrusts. Bad move! It grows into a talking snake with a score to settle...
Sledding at night, I approached the speed of light, and the stars turned colors I'd never seen...
I fled a demon into a shadowy construction zone where an even worse telepathic lion-devil lured me in with soothing flattery. I woke shaking--and then things in my room began to move...
CAUTION: DEMONS, POLTERGEIST PHENOMENA
I'm a mouse trapped and tortured in a maze/machine who gets killed four different ways at once...
CAUTION: OW, OW, OW, OW
Alpine deer-hamsters, pigs, birds, children, even fundamentalists' daughters grow up and want to fly free...
Gennadius re-dreams a previous dream, prompting him to notice he's dreaming. His guide points out the spiritual implications...
The Lord Chancelor can't sleep, and when at last he does, he drifts through nightmares full of baby lawyers and potted tradesmen sprouting fruit, and cutthroat corporate scheming. But that's Victorian dreaming!
Dream-elephants slowly bring me to terms with the early loss of my dad, and lead me out of a cult I've grown beyond...
A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside...
I found myself in a cafe in Amsterdam--or was it Sevilla?--with Kevin, who I knew was dead...
CAUTION: GRIEF
A coach-driving vampire seemed kind of cute until he raped me. If that's even his real face...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE
I dreamed I was a cattaur...
Mysterious doings on an archeological dig bring a creature back to life, but this is no Mummy...
I'm a sexy monster, but my sister sells me to the Devil as his bride...
CAUTION: SEXY CREATURE, ROTTEN SISTER
Talk about mixed messages! Or... is it really?
CAUTION: NUDITY, SLIGHT FIRE HAZARD
My boyfriend and I are beings with pinkish joints...
CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES
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
This black wolf thing named Venom often shows up in my dreams.....
CAUTION: SCARY WOLF. OR OILSLICK. ONE OF THOSE.
I only meet my wolf-soulmate in recurrent dreams...
CAUTION: SEXY CREATURES
We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until...
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!
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...
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.
I was barren. I asked Asklepios, God of Healing, to make me pregnant. Soon I was. And so I stayed--for 3 years, until...
No matter who I dream I am, twin secret agents dog me, eating my soup, playing my games...
CAUTION: EGREGIOUS PHILOSOPHY
I was two-thirds of a love triangle, but I always lost out. Flying was some consolation...
CAUTION: RAT DEATH, EVIL WHALES AND ADULTERY
I'm a drug-addicted amateur dramatist. A fat balding businessman and I bring humanity back from extinction, but...
CAUTION: TORTURE (brief), ADVOCACY OF WAR, HUMAN EXTINCTION (offstage)
A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I'm the wrong religion...
CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING
Patagia dreams she fakes a Hindu rite, provoking Electra to dream she fakes leadership in a band of refugees. Or are they faking?
Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her...
CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK
Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all...
CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
I know I'm a murderer; what isn't so clear is what I killed and why...
CAUTION: DISMEMBERMENT, GUILT, DREAD
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
Malevolent artwork terrorizes my baby and me! What's to be done?...
My foxy lover teases and tempts, but I can't let him into the patio for fear he'll hurt the rabbits…
CAUTION: UNFUNNY BUNNY PUNS
The clay came alive, shaped itself, started dancing...and mutating.
Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request...
My teacher insists, "You'll be scared too, when you see it." But when he shows us humanity's greatest fear...
CAUTION: UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS
One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later…
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS
My mom hires a therapist who really goes for my throat! Why is she so desperate to make me lose my...
CAUTION: OVER-THE-TOP CONFRONTATION
At our commune's new house, pandemonium breaks out when our matriarch meets a spook. Can we live together in peace?
Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers?
In a museum full of spacetime-bubbles holding lost souls, the museum-goers are as weird as the exhibits...
When whites invade, two shapeshifting Native American cubs resist architecturally...
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
I want to drink the elixir, but negative twenty spoons block me! Can I remove them? With warped teacup logic and reciprocals…
ESP? Weird luck? Subliminal perception? Whatever it is, it kicked me right out of a bad day...
We lose control of our new time machine, which seems to have its own agenda...
CAUTION: CONTEMPLATION OF SUICIDE, CHRONOLOGICALLY IMPAIRED DREAMER
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!
Jung (at age three and a half) sees a terrifying god deep underground, and is told "That is the man-eater!"...
Jung was told in dreams and visions that Europe would soon drown in blood. But he just couldn't believe it...
Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush were having a secret love affair, and I was sharing their bed...
A knight falls in love with a fey woman, until her previous victims warn him in a nightmare that she is...
CAUTION: GOTH TO THE MAX
Kekule dreamed solutions to the thorniest structural chemistry problems of his era not once but twice...
I dreamed a large meteor had struck the Earth. I found my Dad just as the shockwave hit...
CAUTION: APOCALYPSE
R.D. Laing gives two examples of dream-spillage suggesting it's not passive but playful...
Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened...
A vivid nightmare that turned out a week later to be devastatingly true ...
A friend and I have simultaneous dreams of absurd quarrels over seating bankers at picnic tables...
A dream of exhibitionist girls playing with breast milk turns out not to be symbolic, but psychic...
CAUTION: BREASTS
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...
Lincoln dreamed his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later, he was...
Loewi thought nerve impulses were transmitted chemically, not electrically. But he couldn’t prove it, until one night...
I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
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
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
My town transforms into a circus--trapeze artists, elephants, clowns. At first I loved it, but when I went home...
I rode with my love in a cart drawn by a winged horse. But as we flew over the Great Pyramid, I jumped...
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
I dreamed of a bear playing a cello concert. The next day at a local concert I was surprised to see that the cellist...
I dreamed all the creatures of the world were dancing around a maypole. My friends and I sculpted a totem pole from the dream...
In the Rockies, in winter, I was freezing until I found hot springs. In the steam rising, I saw a vision of an elk...
"I liked the melody a lot, but because I'd dreamed it, I couldn't believe I'd written it..."
Flying unicorns hang out with me and my friends, sending us dreams full of useful advice--and more concrete gifts...
Millay dreams her lover's attacked in the street, and wakes to realize it's already happened; he's lost.
Millay, suffering from nightmares, decides to speak from Nightmare's point of view...
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
I get speared by Irish warriors, slipped an LSD dose, chased by giant spiders, torpedoed--but hey, I'm not bored!
Natalius dreamed that angels whipped him for joining a heretic cult, and woke to find welts on his back...
An alien is taking over our world, and I feel so helpless that even when I wake I want to just forget the dream...
Giant snakes chased me, but I went lucid, turned and slew one. As I woke, the snakes were crying. So I re-entered the dream and...
CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING
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...
Dreamwork takes discipline, but writing and painting dreams for others takes even more: courage!
Patagia dreams she fakes a Hindu rite, provoking Electra to dream she fakes leadership in a band of refugees. Or are they faking?
I’m a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck...
Lions trap me in an African cave with only coffee, paper and pens! Is this what it takes to get me to write?
A woman I had wronged set her pit bull on me! Hand in its jaws, I gave in, and we both began crying...
Facing death the next day in a Roman arena, Perpetua dreams of the spiritual duel behind the physical one...
I was working in the library, talking to this woman who announced "I think I'll grow my horn now..."
My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake, while I dream that a different kind of raven gives me weird advice...
I flew as if part of the air--an otherworldly freedom so exquisite I wonder if it's attainable at all in earthly existence...
Rousseau's famous painting of a woman who falls asleep on a sofa and finds herself in a glorious jungle may just be a real dream...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SLACKING
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?
I found myself in a whole pride of cat-people like me, each one representing some side of me...
Even after the Resurrection, a mother and daughter still have issues to clean up...
Patches the kitten, my alter ego, paws at flying fish who are also toast-slices...
The night before he met his greatest student Plato, Socrates dreamed he nursed a baby swan who grew...
I’m the only one who can stop the plot to kill the Pope--but if he keeps shrinking like that, will it matter?
CAUTION: RECOVERING CATHOLIC
Stevenson's dreams changed over decades: from childhood nightmares to creative allies dreaming whole stories...
At a snake-weaving party I flirt with my anima, who tells me how the cake fell off the roof. I think "At last we're really connecting!"...
Dreams warning of mania and paralyzing shame alternate with calm dreams of life and growth...
Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire, a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm?
I climb down from a desert cliff before night strands me; but reckless adolescent games in town lead to a crash...
My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares...
Two friends send energy through me, transforming me. Now that my legs are detachable, I can sit comfortably on my eggs...
At a party I meet a friend I thought was dead. She’s become a small talking rabbit made of cake, and I...
CAUTION: UGH
Mt Everest is snowfree and red; and next I get to color sandstone caves red with ochre. That red feels full of energy...
I'm shown corn plants growing from skulls, and it seems like I must plant some skull-corn myself...
Towers, before he was killed, argued Terman was wrong: geniuses are often isolated and maladjusted...
CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
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 meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow?
CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE
Always ask permission to throw rocks at your date. No, not those big ones! Where's the nearest hospital?
CAUTION: SURREAL DATE ABUSE
Wayan dreams a jet crashes in dead silence. That morning his computer silently crashes. Meanwhile Vera dreams of being ON a jet that...
I dream my friend Vera's ordered to just study and sleep--no play, no dating, no nothing. Next night I dream Vera works with gangs, as an armed peacekeeper. Vera's shocked when I tell the dreams, because...
Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE
A pig led me off my path to meet a lady. I told her my true name, and felt something shift...
Hillary Clinton was trying to seduce me, and doing a pretty good job, too...
I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret. And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN...
A bear rips open my wall and guides me into a psychedelic space where I learn to see with new eyes...
I met a great blue eagle waiting to get into a library--but not to hunt books...
I met some little hunchbacks in the woods who showed me a newborn baby growing from the moss...
I visit the underworld court of the Lizard King, but I can't leave: he makes me Queen...
CAUTION: MARITAL RAPE (NON-GRAPHIC)
An amber stream recurring in my dreams led me to meet a huge, strange being, Slithy...
I'm a dyke playing baseball in Golden Gate Park. Some guys harass us and run into a tunnel. I follow...
Preston dreams he's a dragon and his girlfriend Katie drew his portrait from his account
A fictional niece acting sexy in a shirt, plus... water balloons? I woke, and a friend told me HER dream...
CAUTION: DREAM INCEST, KIDS WITH GUNS, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
I took my cellphone into the shower. I couldn't find the shampoo, and idly typed SHAMPOO in, and...
CAUTION: NOW YOU KNOW WHO STOLE YOUR ODD SOCKS
I wander a sunken maze, meet a playful woman, find a hidden treasure. Meanwhile, my friend Zooop...