I lay on a beach with Nina. I stuck a shell on her body and designed a fabulous line of prosthetics...
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...
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", I dream a friend asks me to remove a strange curse...
Everyone wears a big cowboy beltbuckle. Twist it and your bodymass re-distributes! But mine...
CAUTION: CRASS AND CRUDE
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...
On the beach, seated at The Piano, director Jane Campion warns "Avoid Hollywood, they'll snip away at your vision..."
I'm a lemur-girl in an emotional maze. But I wake to find I'm really a satyr cartoonist. Yet we have much in common...
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 put in this new security system...
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 fearing curses leads back to 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 cutesy cartoon universe! Worse, to judge a beauty contest, I have to see past our style to our souls...
We desert-hobbits break through to a world of jungle giants. But will they believe us about the UFOs?
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...
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...
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...
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 ST DECADENCE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
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?
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
Why'd Julie write a singles ad with insane, sky-high demands, when she just wants a nice relaxed guy?
Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear...
I join the alliance against aliens blind to humor and metaphor, who are invading funny-animal planets...
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'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 geological expedition to the moon Miranda...
I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is...
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
A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment...
CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
Two child artists mail themselves to me in their paint kit, and start a painting orgy that gets messy...
CAUTION: PEDOPHILIA, OR MAYBE PEDOPHOBIA
I dream a hypnotist elicits a personality 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...
One tribe builds earth-magic pits that can teleport you or grant wishes. But the other tribe's 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...
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow deep social change is. How we cling to our worldviews!
I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!:
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 dreams show me how one world can be a fiction within another that's a fiction within the first! Dreams and fictions aren't simulations but windows. So be nice to your dream-figures--it turns out you ARE one...
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...
I didn't know myself what this was about, till I had to write this note--and suddenly I got it...
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
As I reread decades of my dreams, I see Jung was right: even in times of chaos, 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
I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning history of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
I turn shy with women I like. So I wish for a dating coach, who appears! Then I feel dumb: how come I...
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...
Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is 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 led a blind man through a vast art museum underground. But focused on guiding him, I too was blind to the beauty...
I'm lost in a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who adore unicorns but hate cyborgs, who think ants are cute, but dread unicorns! And while the Three Tribes love and hate, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four vertices of my tetrahedral soul, but what if I get what I want? Peace, love... transformation? What if those aren't cute and New Age?
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...
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 “follow my bliss”!
I dream of a being who uses her mane and tail to hide in plain sight, by breaking her image into bits...
I see great towers rising into a fog zone--or is it another universe, with different rules? How do you draw both worlds?
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?