At the beach, a Bactrian camel at the self-service station fills his humps and walks off whistling. The
station owner wants me to pay, but I'm a kid; no cash. "Then sing." But I have no mouth. Or head...
My friend Georges was sleeping on my couch. I woke to find him fighting free of gauze that
tied him to the sofa. As he woke, it faded away. He'd dreamt of it. I'd seen his dream...
CAUTION: JUST WEIRD
Celia Green, lucid dream expert, claims nearly all lucid dreamers keep their waking
bodies, their self-image. But Whiteman & Wayan both have genderbent lucid dreams...
Greene woke shaken. "I dreamt of catastrophe. I hope nothing has happened to one of my family or a close friend."
A few miles away, an airliner had been shot down, killing all. On board was his friend General René Cogny...
Gennadius re-dreams a previous dream, helping him see he's dreaming. His guide points out spiritual implications...
George Jetson is married to Wilma Flintstone--though they're both big cats.
When George comes home high on mushrooms, he doubts what's on his bed...
CAUTION: CARTOON ADULTERY
I'm at my favorite opera, The Magic Flute. When I hear the line 'That is the devil certainly,' I think
of Hitler. The Gestapo have a device that reads my thought, and come for me. Bystanders spit on me...
CAUTION: NATIONAL NIGHTMARE
I dream my sister has an epiphany--we should relax, blur our boundaries, and just be
sloppy old Geysers of Good. Surprisingly, my financier mentor agrees...
CAUTION: DECLARES CAPITALISM OBSOLETE
A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
WAYAN: I dream a transparent ghost steals my sister Miriel's white VW bug...
MIRIEL: I dream about a ghost and my old white VW bug that was stolen...
CAUTION: WILL BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS
A whimsical spook causes a chain of crashes--a pedestrian dodges an elephant, swerving a car
that shoves a cyclist into a luggage-wrangler whose rolling suitcase panics a dog who runs into...
A young giantess is on trial for growing a castle near humans, who fear she'll eat them.
But she's a radical giant, an animaltarian, planning to ranch cattle and sheep...
CAUTION: SEXUAL & DIETARY GUILT
I was a giant carefully & guiltlessly flattening San Francisco--just following orders
to recycle it! Killing how many? While my mind inside the giant's mind was appalled...
Comics character Doctor Blasphemy, on stilts, bares his secret identity:
poet Allen Ginsberg! But who chopped off his missing fingers?
CAUTION: BLOODY FINGERS
I was in the Mission with friends. A giraffe saw me as narrowminded, and lifted me up
to show me HIS viewpoint. No insights--till we topped the roofline...
A snotty shopkeeper won't let a kid have a balloon, so she teleports one through the display
window! Blind to the magic, he just scolds her and takes it away. So her mind reaches
through the window to liberate every balloon in his store! And then, 26 years later...
After I visit the crystalline people, a young diamond-wizard
stalks me all the way to my home in the Meat World, and says...
A huge gold cup was stolen from the Temple of Hercules. Sophocles thrice dreamt Hercules named the thief...
I'm in the Gulf of Mexico watching the Creator of North America place mountains, rivers
and ancestors just where they belong. I wake knowing this pious, static view is immoral...
CAUTION: CRITIQUES TRADITIONALISM
God has a night-side, as we do. We evolve, with slips back into darkness,
generations long; and God does too, though perhaps with more pain...
CAUTION: PHILOSOPHY
God built 3 dials to check: body, soul, and time. But the Holy Spirit's lazy, only checks one! It's up to us...
I was so lonely the potheads on Haight looked good. I dreamed I had the Golden Key, but under a cheap
sodium streetlamp, ALL my keys looked gold! Then I met true gold: a woman meditating until she shone...
CAUTION: NUDITY, HAIGHT STREET STONERS
Brown dreamed of this green bedroom, striped curtains and red furniture--not hers, but her down-
stairs neighbor's room. It was full of her (adult) possessions, and she said goodnight to each...
My fiancé Graham finds my second sight an awkwardness to suppress.
When I dream his cousin's home is haunted, and it turns out to be true...
CAUTION: PSYCHIC, YET BLIND TO INCOMPATIBILITY
In a Hopi underworld, I find even lucid dreaming can't cure guilt and grief over losses yet to come...
I dream it's after a great war; I hear the music I must write, and meet the girl I must marry...
I stalk a platoon of levitating surfer girls who may be out to bomb a Greenpeace submarine...
A woman dreams of her boyfriend recently killed in a car crash. Unremarkable so far. But he
also haunts his ex-babysitter, two thousand miles away, who had no idea he'd died...
Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth.
We're wolf people hiking above Lake Tahoe. Spring came to the shores, but as we climb, we re-enter
winter. Our fur's short; we'll need to grow long coats, and toughen our soles--if that's how you spell it...
CAUTION: NUDE WOLVES; POLITICS
They led me to the guillotine. As the blade struck my neck,
I woke to find my headboard had broken loose and fallen on my...
After seeing the cast of Glee interviewed, I dream I'm a paranoid cripple in music school who goes from...
My friend Dawn drags me to a cultish workshop. But I fall asleep! Or is
that bad? The Financial Guru awards me $1250 for spiritual napping...
CAUTION: RIDICULOUS UNTIL...
I'm a Gyrlfalcon in a theater, fighting the Wolverine and his Morlocks with my lover the Green Lion...
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...
A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to?
I dreamt of a surreal poker hand where one card changed to create a full house. Next weekend, I was losing when...
We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains...
Nabokov's uncle left him a fortune but the Revolution took it. He dreamed his uncle said "I shall return to you as
Harry & Kuvyrkin." 40 years later filmmakers Harris & Kubrick paid Nabokov a fortune for the rights to Lolita...
People have asked me if I ever dream that I am 'in' Harry's world. The answer was 'no' until a few nights ago...
After the puppet Indian legislature passed the Rowlett Acts (police could jail anyone anytime), Gandhi dreamed
he must call for a nationwide hartal, a day of fasting--a declaration that freedom isn't just political but sacred...
DREAM: I'm in the Arctic facing a hostile mob. I insist "I'm dreaming; you can't hurt me." They try!
I look down at my body, stuck full of hatchets, and say "See?" They slink off, looking sheepish...
TWO DAYS LATER: I'm in northern England. A reporter snaps "Dreams won't help the miners..."
I find my city has changed during Covid; a huge Chinese gate or folly near Fort Mason
and a monstrous tower in the central hills, made of Space Needles, umbrellas & balloons...
Next day I read Jan Morris's Hav... and there are my towers.
All the photos of hawk people I can find show them with bizarre genitalia: males
with hawk-heads for penises, and females with nothing. Blank! Then I go to work...
CAUTION: REVERSE SEXISM
I toured the factory where they make the spare heads you put on and
take off to change your mind. Nothing creepy about it, nothing at all...
All my life I've had sudden visions showing violent deaths accompanied by headlines naming the victims...
A CIA man trying to infiltrate a revolutionary group flunks a lie-detector test, so the Headshrinker...
CAUTION: REAL HEADSHRINKER
When I touch people, they heal. But they don't want to be merely restored, but reshaped...
CAUTION: TRANNIES AND FURRIES LEAVE THE CLOSET
Hedgehog and White Rabbit stick together, through the snipers on Broadway,
through the dogs of winter, through cannibal soup...
In a dark wood, I find a castle full of all my old teachers, watching an interview of their idol,
philosopher Martin Heidegger. He delivers! Greedy, arrogant, jingoistic, sexist and gleeful...
CAUTION: GENUINE HEIDEGGER, UGH
Two teens crack a bank with a homemade rocket--but forgot a crowbar! Caught, but
the bank can't press charges; the kids have proof the bank uses slave labor...
CAUTION: DISSES CAPITALISM
I was ordered to join Hitler's army. I dreamt a booming voice proclaimed, "This train is going to Hell!" So I...
I'm gloomy about the state of the world, but my alter ego cheerfully explains we're dead and in
Hell--as a demon train rolls up with Elvis Costello on the roof singing "This is Hell I suppose"...
Who built the tornado in the Heartland, that sucks anyone who opens their spirit-wings down to Hell?
CAUTION: BAD THEOLOGY, WORSE PHYSICS
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda...
After seeing The Tempest with a tattooed Miranda, I dream she has a Cutie Mark on her flank--
a logo showing her life-purpose, her life-path. Except she's outgrowing it...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I had a chronic illness doctors said was psychosomatic. So I saw Ani, a therapist...
I dream we're prisoners. Ani leads a successful escape, but then walks around
oblivious that her hands are still tied! I offer to untie her; she seems deaf to me...
A musical prodigy has a gorgeous, unplayable keyboard.
But serious creativity takes a dull, regular, ergonomic instrument...
I'm a great blue heron with hands and human speech. A hunter fires arrows at me,
but I'm fast and can catch them. They're costly, so I demand a bargain with him...
CAUTION: ABOUT EMOTIONAL ABUSE
I climb a small-town water tower. The tank holds a reedy marsh where sentient herons live! They say
the Heartland below them is a nest reserved for greedy, screechy, flightless, half-grown souls like us...
CAUTION: DISSES SMALL-TOWN VALUES
A huge bridge spans the Pacific; my depth perception reaches miles instead of mere yards.
A crowd worships a guru hidden in a tent on a pier. I don't trust him! He has hidden in tent...
CAUTION: THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE
I'm stuck on a jet full of cartoons. We get hijacked by a kid who just wants
pilot practice, and then a talking cactus counter-hijacks us...
CAUTION: THE F-WORD
Hilda, founder of two monasteries, dies in one. Begu, in the other, 13 miles away,
dreams Hilda's been taken to heaven. She tells her sisters. Messengers arrive...
I dream of a parade or train of energy sources--human muscle, horsepower, coal, oil, gas, solar...
But the train's ultimate engine is in our future, and is impossible--a dragon riding a broomstick...
It was Hitler. He had a pig face, and he was taking notes. He said
'I want to understand the uses and implications of this amazing technology'...
I built a Bavarian treehouse with a great view, hoping Hitler'd confiscate it.
He did! Now he's exposed to Allied spy planes--and assassination...
CAUTION: CHILD-MOLESTING THERAPIST
She dreamed she'd written a wise and beautiful poem. Half asleep she scribbled it down. Awake, she found...
CAUTION: HOGGEREL
I'm a Zen monk riddled with holes from a weird disease the government denies
is real. So as a protest, I stand naked atop a wall and let the air-sharks take me...
CAUTION: SURREAL SUICIDE
A smiling beauty queen on a float gives birth to a monkey with blinders, then re-absorbs the baby, then...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND ODDITY
A student of Elsie Sechrist reports a dream in which Bob Hope came jumping
down the street on a pogo stick, expressing the dreamer's feeling that...
After you died, I dreamed of horses trapped in nets. Months later, in mist. By a year,
in stables, saddled to ride. But only now am I ready to start my journey without you...
I'm badly disoriented because I'm seeing through walls! My sixth sense is from a high-tech helmet
shaped like a horseshoe magnet. Four days later I see Brainstorm, a movie about a high-tech helmet
shaped like a horseshoe magnet, recording and playing back mental experience. Talk about disorienting...
I dream I'm taking a hot shower, then realize our water heater died; this is a dream. "It means I want hot water!" I
blurt (in the dream) & wake. Next day, a plumber's error gets me drenched in hot water with no new heater...
DREAM: my car has a fuel leak. Luckily, I carry around a crystal hot-water knob--
for beauty, not car repair. But I screw it in & stop the leak, fixing my 'drive'...
NEXT EVENING: turn on the TV news, and there's my hot water knob...
A dance/yoga dream warning "don't push your body till it hurts..." that came true the next day.
We're hiking in the Sangre de Cristos when a girl offers to show us how to be a wolf. We're
eager--until she turns wolf, bites us and leaps off a cliff! Furious, we stupidly follow her over...
CAUTION: NUDE WINGWOLVES
My dead father said "We're looking for Howard any time now. We'll be glad to see him..."
My teacher insists, "You'll be scared too, when you see it." But when he shows us humanity's greatest fear...
CAUTION: UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS
I meet a circle of students with up to five eyes. The lone three-eyed girl
is embarrassed, indeed ashamed she's merely attained enlightenment...
A mind-control drug urges her to strangle her loved ones, but
to beat the curse she busies her fluttering hands with bluegrass banjo...
I'm my friend Dawn, at a convention for my job. But I get insulted. I walk
out. Lost in endless parking lots, by a dumpster, I make a bizarre wish...
CAUTION: APPARENT TELEPATHY
First I met an assassin girl who could raise dust storms; then a monster-hunted named Rho;
then I was the hunter, with a futuristic hovercycle and low-tech bow and arrows...
I live as a small falcon, glad I'm no longer human. But when that life ends...
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
Wounded, bandaged, chased by cops, I end up heading a huge children's parade,
marching to Mongolia. No secret what it's about--On The Road was just published...
I'm chased by spaghetti, snared, sprinkled with parmesan.
My hungry classmates loom, and my best friend says...
My family calls me a blonde bimbo and won't give me my inheritance, so I take drastic steps...
CAUTION: MORAL HAIRSPLITTING
The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake...
My beloved horse outraced our ruler's best--so he killed my horse. I dream he tells me
"Make a fiddle from my bones, skin and horsehair, then play our story, and I'll return"...
CAUTION: GRISLY, BUT APPARENTLY IT WORKED
I'm a girl in love with an elf-sorceress who grants me long life and good health, at a cost:
attractive women don't notice me now, forcing fidelity. I didn't plan to cheat anyway...
A man in a castle plots against his enemies, while his rebel-daughter meets her lover outside...
On Mars, a child-sacrificing cult of miners wants to kill me, but something strange happens....
I keep getting reincarnated in dull heavens where all is blocked by know-nothings. After the 2016 election...
CAUTION: CAUSTIC
My friend put an ad on her gown, so I try one on our house. I have big ideas for more, but a pickpocket...
When I first took yãkoana, my visions were disappointing--where were the spirits? They studied
me for days, until they knew I was serious. Then a few came, then a horde! Overwhelming...
After my husband's death, I dreamed he pointed at a small black bag I hadn't opened. It held insurance policies...
I saw a dark object like a cloud at a vast height, but coming swiftly down toward the earth.
It resolved itself into iron bars--tens of thousands, millions? I said: this is the end of everything...
On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are...
I'm in a dance class where we built not just muscle strength but strength of will, too: the idea's to
magically summon your soulmate through sheer longing! And my classmates succeed--intermittently...
CAUTION: QUEER THINKING
How did my bondage dream turn into a slot-machine jackpot? And what kind of change is pouring out?...
CAUTION: (CON)SENSUAL BONDAGE
I'm slipping dimes into a boulder of jade: a vending machine that fills every order wrong. Why feed it? Well...
Jung was told in dreams and visions that Europe would soon drown in blood. But he just couldn't believe it...
I was on a plane... It was almost graceful, the plane actually entered the building before everything dissolved into flame...
CAUTION: DEATH. DEATH TWICE.
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
I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I...
CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL
I dream a Chinese fable: how the poet Li Po was abucted by the gods, till they face heavenly justice...
CAUTION: ABDUCTION, DRUNKS, EVIL PUN
I was working for a London architect. His son thought people shunned him for his limp, but...
Lincoln dreamt his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later...
I'm chasing a guy named Will (short for Willful Conformity) through the classes of a mad dance academy...
A mob of kids chases me chanting "Lyin' Wayan!" I get dizzy and fall off a bridge... THEN comes trouble!
CAUTION: FATAL FALL
My dentist (a Haitian Mafia leader) sends a message to my dad (also a Mafia don) by dental cruelty....
A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets a
little advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom...
Jung (at age three and a half) sees a terrifying god deep underground, and is told "That is the man-eater!"...
On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I dream I live on Mercury--but the Mercury of my childhood, before it was known to spin!
Tidelocked--one side fire, one side ice. We farm in domes, between. Until the sun brightens...
CAUTION: RETRO SCIENCE
I'm an anima. But we rarely walk the day-world for long.
When will I fade? Ignorance isn't bliss, it's paralysis...
I was an avian Mr Niceguy with sore knees, till I got some advice from my supposedly extinct big brother...
Many kids anxiously dream their parents aren't their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents...
CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS
I'm a mouse with a protest banner saying "FREEDOM!", having a slight argument with a cat...
I help a mutant boy find others like him, and learn why some prayers are ungrantable...
A telepathic unicorn-lion declares that my true name is Wayan.
And my true species? That's a surprise too...
An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero...
Natalius dreamed that angels whipped him for joining a heretic cult, and woke to find welts on his back...
At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
I'm attacked by a narcissist firebird, a rabid rattler-manticore, a masochist bear, and a sexless succubus...
CAUTION: INEPT DEMONS
My friend Catherine dreamed she was a flying mare with golden hooves. But in real life, she lost them...
My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers?
I'm a stratospheric bat who finds a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism?
Or a Hindu blessing? Neither! It's an Octopian frisbee. I return it...
A gengineered singer (born a cow, became a horse, then a shark, now a sexy Mare Chanteuse)
solves a mystery that stumped even Mr. Spock. Next day, I see a film--a mystery solved by a...
I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed...
CAUTION: SEX
A doomed, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or... did I?
CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE (MARSUPIAL/NON-GORY)