I lay on a beach with Nina. I stuck a shell on her body and designed a fabulous line of prosthetics...
At the airport, a new automatic photo booth shoots your memories!
Julie can't resist... and emerges, excited, to find that...
I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single night...
Beagle's fantasies, from The Last Unicorn to The Innkeeper's Song, closely resemble
my dreams. The ways we differ say more about our spiritual orientation than about our art...
Parasites, Rambo, huge fetus-beets, an exhibitionist and a living statue advise me on my love life...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Idiotically, I bet I can escape an atomic bomb on my bike. Maybe if I ignore stoplights...
CAUTION: IRRESPONSIBLE WEAPONS USE
Throw a dream-crystal, or dangle it by a thread, and it'll point the way to go...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Bradbury's Mars was based on his life in Venice, California. What worlds grow out of my San Francisco?
After I saw the film "Surviving Picasso" (he's brilliant but treats women like dirt)
I dream a sexy friend asks me to remove a strange curse. But can I?...
We all wear magic beltbuckles. Twist one--your body stretches from squat to willowy. Except mine...
CAUTION: SEX, BODY-IMAGE DISTORTION
My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die...
CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES
'You always hurt the one you love', but this girl seems unaware she's proving it's true for ecology too...
Bart Simpson leads me down from the Cabin in the Sky back to being... grounded?
On the beach, seated at The Piano, director Jane Campion warns
"Avoid Hollywood, they'll snip away at your vision..."
I dream I'm a lemur-girl in an emotional maze.
I wake to find I'm really a satyr cartoonist.
Funny, we have a lot in common! I wake to find...
CAUTION: PHALLIC SATYRE
I take Cassandra's prophecies seriously, but she can't make sense of my future.
So we go see an otter with a crystal ball. But he's installed a new security system...
I tour a middle school paralyzed by delinquents, and learn this is normal now...
2021: I dream I'm confessing to friends how I'm over-compliant. I wake, and start transcribing my
1984 journal. Turn the page and find a dream of a horny stallion who's disturbingly over-compliant...
CAUTION: KINKY STALLION
I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal...
CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE
Studies confirm that prayer can heal. So can curses harm? Yet the fear of curses fueled the witch hunts...
CAUTION: DISTURBING IMPLICATIONS, IF TRUE
How I cursed Isabella the sofa sorceress, cursed her with a blueberry. And why that stinks...
CAUTION: UNDER THE MAGIC, IDEAS
I'm trapped in a cute cartoon universe! Worse, to judge this beauty contest,
I have to see past our style to our souls...
Months ago, I dreamed of that exact wall--I fell and was hurt. So today I told my foreman
I'd rather work on the ground. But by 11, I forgot. I climbed up to nail in some blocks...
We desert-hobbits break through to a world of jungle giants who
see differently from us. Will they believe us about the UFOs?
Winged things lurk in the shadows. When I focus on them, they attack! Castaneda's teacher watches amused...
From Baffin Bay to suburbia, dragons are everywhere... if you look with a dragon's eye...
An experimental helmet knocks me out. I'm groggy, miserable, till I learn what it did to others...
Their bodies shift, and alter. Antlers sprout... much has been taken, and something terrible is grafted...
CAUTION: RAMPANT PHILOSOPHIZING, HUMAN SUPREMACISM
On our expedition to a singularity, one researcher gets quantum-entangled with it! He could become anything...
A mysterious "Führer" hypnotized all my companions. So I become a human-sized falcon and hunt him...
Inspired by a fashion outtake of model and director clowning. I fused the director and the camera, and...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
We see patterns everywhere... but that also means we relegate nonpatterns to the background...
I'm the First Lady. I have a dream that my husband's assassinated, and wake and try to warn him...
On my quest I find magic portals, snarky flower-fairies, undersea redcoats,
reassembling bodyparts, living chess, and Nosferatu the Cheating Vampyre...
My friend Linda and I are walking in the Castro, when a tourist girl jams her tongue in Linda's mouth...
CAUTION: SERIOUS TONGUE
A man dies--his body's chopped up. He ends in Hell. But he's a stubborn guy; he wants his body back. So...
In a California with no Gold Rush, wild deer carry a girl over the San Fernando hills to a secret dream-pool...
Then in a Japantown hotel lobby, that girl floats meditating in a huge aquarium, as local gossips lie about her...
I was on a London train. An ad had an image from "Jack and the Beanstalk" and I pondered
the tale--the meaning of the golden eggs. A man got on, held out a golden egg, and opened it...
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
So I looked out my window and saw this guy burying a tiny robed woman in a trench in the street...
You know angels feud over regional underfunding of Divine Grace. But you don't know how low they'll go...
An ancient rite has headgear that today picks up radio stations. What'd it pick up in ancient times?
I'm a misfit--a mortal in an immortal world. Then I meet a girl with an unpredictable illness...
It looks like a study of negative shapes, but if you happen to be a part-time horse, like me...
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
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
A library shows me surrealist Jean Arp's sketchbook. One Eschery sketch with repeated focal points is hypnotic.
But they also show me his lunch, and I try to eat it! I fail. Head & gut disagree. Stuck Arp-way...
CAUTION: NEVER EAT 12-YEAR-OLD SUSHI
Why'd Julie write a singles ad with insane, sky-high demands, when she just wants a nice relaxed guy?
A sexy dream-creature hides by splitting her body visually,
her red mane and tail matching her background...
Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear...
A man I meet leads half a dozen consistent dreamlives--an experience
so splintered that it's hard to figure out which life is his waking one...
I join the alliance against humorless humanoids who are invading funny-animal planets...
We must hunt a man-eating lion to protect our village--our village full of slaves. But we
can't deal with our looming social crisis now--gotta focus on the lion in front of us..
CAUTION: SLAVERY, ILLNESS, DEATH
My sister and I are groping toward sex when our mom bursts in. Her scolding's not what I expect...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
I stood in the desert preparing for a contest with a man and his snake. But he cheated! Then my cat Lulu intervened...
I met a woman whose art (and her love for the Earth) inspired me to start a series of paintings with creatures hidden in landscapes...
I'm Hitler's girlfriend. Not Eva Braun, just me--gentle, weak, thrown in among killers. What can I do?
Strange oaths are proposed for the first expedition to the Uranian moon Miranda...
DREAM: Gay boys, underage girls & my own sister all mock me, sure I want their forbidden sexual fruit
at a beach where grotesque trees make their own precipitation and salt-dunes spill into saturated, toxic brine...
NEXT DAY: I read Margaret Atwood's The Salt Garden--sex, guilt, and grotesque trees in saturated, toxic brine.
CAUTION: SEXUAL GUILT, EXHIBITIONIST TWEENS, APPARENT E.S.P.
I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is...
by Jenny Badger Sultan; 14 dreams (mostly Jan-Mar 2011) painted on one canvas
A dream urged me to paint a big landscape with cutout movable (magnetic) dream figures
and liftable flaps revealing hidden dream scenes...
Inspired by Shaun Tan, I fill a black-paged photo album with 36 improv paintings.
They become a tour of my dreamworld, led by my anima Silky, a literal nightmare...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, WEIRD DREAM IDEAS
I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in...
CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and...
CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON
The older sorceress I'm in bed with plans to marry me off to a younger woman, but I distract her with my tongue...
CAUTION: BEDROOM HUMOR
A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment...
CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon
on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours...
Two child artists mail themselves to me in their paint kit, and
start a painting orgy that gets messy in more ways than one...
CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, OR MAYBE PEDOPHOBIA
A hypnotist elicits a personality inside me who says he obliges my paranoia by giving me weird luck...
My life is a mess, so I take a class on the four flavors of chaos, and find my Strange Attractors are shifting...
I work the info desk in a futuristic library. But one question leads me into a DNA-helix, a tornado of doubt...
I forgot how to play my pianobed, so I just thrash around in it. And thus thrash music is born (sorry)...
One tribe builds earth-magic pits that can teleport you or grant wishes.
But the other tribe's more powerful flow-state magic is harder to define...
CAUTION: SEX FANTASY GRANTED
I'm a Martian revolutionary, making the glaciers grow. The equator's still dry, but change is coming...
My body turns protean: big Popeye muscles pop out as needed, relaxing into stick-figureness...
After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival...
I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!:
All the claymation figures I made in my teens are gone but one. And the centauress has a broken hip
and spindly leg. I start to mend her, but I need TWICE the clay I thought...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems...
CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
My dream shows me how one world can be a fiction within another that's a fiction within the first!
Dreams aren't simulations but windows into worlds. So be nice to dream-figures! Turns out you ARE one...
Dreams and other revelations shouldn't be dissected--they need to be reveiled, not revealed...
CAUTION: INTENSE MYSTICISM
Widely held notions manifest easier. I could forge Sauron's Ring, and it'd really work! But do I want to?...
Earth has rainbow rings. They're braided like Saturn's, so their shadows create tinted microclimates...
THAT DAY: My bandmates want to record crowd-pleasing songs. I want to record our strangest ones...
THAT NIGHT: In a woman's art studio, I'm struck by a low, feline, muscular unicorn mare, carved
out of a giant ruby. I ask, and she says "Oh, that's not mine. I found it in the trash"...
I didn't know myself what this was about, till I had to write this note--and suddenly I got it...
I meet two women: I lose my usual shyness around playful, sexy Lujenda, but I feel
surprisingly shy around her brilliant cousin Lumina! I may have unfinished business...
I dream I'm suicidal; but I'm saved when I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern,
from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but the challenges slowly get more spiritual.
NEXT DAY: I learn what my shaman-friend Dee just dreamed. And now I'm unsure whose dream this is...
CAUTION: IDEAS
As I reread decades of dreams, I see Jung was right: even in crisis-times, soul-work goes calmly on...
I'm a kid again, gawking at the Space Needle. But a woman stands before it, who no one else can see:
CAUTION: NUDITY, A SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE
DAY: I read Starhawk's Dreaming the Dark, on building unity, undoing capitalism;
DREAM: I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
Two child prodigies fail to stop the killers stalking President Obama, but a geek with a homemade laser...
I turn shy with women I like. So I wish for a dating coach, who appears! Then I feel dumb: how come I...
I have recurring dreams of figures broken up by hair the color of the background...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
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...
Jung said most people let one aspect of life dominate them. The Mage balances them...
I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was...
I dreamed my husband's ship headed for India, but a 'tin fish'
sank it with just one casualty--him. I rushed down to the dock...
Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties.
Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures
like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake...
Why's Mexico City built where it is? And why is corn called "ears"? It turns out these questions are linked...
I'm flying around a half-built house when I'm cornered by three
scary archangels in trenchcoats. But they want my help...
A TAILOR'S APPRENTICE: I become her to fight back against his abuse...
DAMSEL ON THE PYRE: I become a girl being burned alive, but get
so distracted by my beautiful body I forget to escape until it's too...
I led a blind man through a vast art museum underground. But guiding him, I too was blind to the beauty...
My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So
I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans...
The stained-glass unicorns were stunning, sexy... but veiled by a bland, tasteful,
flowery inner stained-glass window. 18 months later I saw the dream window...
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but
fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters
sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul...
CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
Make silhouettes of your beloved vegetables; then listen to the spaces between...
CAUTION: LEWD SQUASH
I ask to see my past lives, and dream of a viewpoint where I can--but this Mormon ranger...
I dreamt my son Walter drowned in the creek by a certain tree. I woke in tears, and resolved...
A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
These sketches bare my work process: I multitask, but without planning, in a
flow state. I really do just follow my bliss. Works better for me than logic.
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow
deep social change is. How we cling to the old horrors!
A mystic postman delivers a letter on the world's best glasses and a reply from me, telling how to find them...
Great towers rise into a fog zone--or is it another world with other rules? And how to draw both levels?
I'm in a college class studying a bizarre alternate Earth where
anarchist co-ops never evolved and (of all things) money rules all...
CAUTION: SCORNS CAPITALISM
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?