The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to
Anorexic Bootcamp where models learn self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by...
CAUTION: BARF, HORNY ANOREXIC, FOOD FIGHT
I was tired and sad and mired in routine. I asked for a dream to restore my soul.
I found myself under a tree as a chorus of gorgeous birds sang classical music...
I escape a dark cell, cram with friends into a car and co-drive to LA, steering along with a woman in my lap...
CAUTION: EITHER SEX SYMBOLISM, OR SOMETHING MORE SUBVERSIVE
I always wrote some letters strangely--my 'd' was nearly illegible. So I set out to retrain my deep motor skills...
I dreamed of South American musical intrigue in a grand hotel. Enter a polka-dot shapeshifter...
A woman explains why the subjective rate of change has slowed--we EXPECT life to be different...
For mere disobedience, I EXECUTE a forest-fire-fighting cat! So next
I'm trapped in a security-obsessed job; how do I like it? I flee...
My car's idling too fast. After hours of diagnosis, I notice a foot's on the gas! But not my foot...
I'm a guard on a train crossing the desert who falls in love with a refugee fox-girl,
despite heavy specist peer-pressure and the archaic Railway Code...
CAUTION: NUDE FOX
I live in a haunted house where ghosts push you to suicide. But they're as tired of it as I am...
A mail-order warehouse in Kansas sends ghost-infected software out, causing mayhem.
But less than when Kansas exported the killer flu 100 years ago...
CAUTION: DISSES KANSAS & CAPITALISM, FOR GOOD HISTORICAL REASONS
Thieves stole 100 of our horses. The tracks suggested white men, but that night
my dream Helpers declared them Sioux. We tracked them across Montana...
Playing Mario Kart, I stray into a darkness where Earth floats, burning.
And then Jesus speaks up! But I carelessly hit the OFF button...
I find myself at a creepy party supporting a dead man who's running for office. And am I Dan Quayle?
CAUTION: HORROR BEYOND HORROR. YOU ARE DAN QUAYLE.
On Love Day you can't mock anyone's come-on, of course; but in the bar "Cheers", Carla's mad at Diane...
CAUTION: PRO-BIGAMY?
My "friends" pull me away from the girl of my dreams, push booze & pot at me,
and won't even try to climb the rope to success. But Marvin saves Evel Knievel
from a motorcycle crash. Sounds good--until, ten years later, I hear how Marvin died...
CAUTION: GRIM AFTERMATH
My sister & I swim round a weirdly shrunken Pacific. Near Fiji, we blunder too close to the drain...
I'm a girl in a Catholic school. But a magazine and my too-small bed combine to change my life...
CAUTION: MASTURBATION, QUEER-POSITIVE, CHRISTIAN-NEGATIVE
Dreams of translucent fairies, centaurs, robots & gnomes prompt me to cartoon
on transparent overlays to show how dreamworlds overlay ours...
Mom's vanished, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us
alone now. But he's barely coping. And he's me...
A hypnotist elicits a personality inside me who says he obliges my paranoia by giving me weird luck...
Hypnotized in therapy, I saw AT LEAST five competing goals tugging at me like gravity fields.
Naturally I drew them. Come tour the Inner Solar System of our desires...
CAUTION: NUDITY (BODY, HEART, BRAIN, SOUL)
My life is a mess, so I take a class on the four flavors of chaos, and find my Strange Attractors are shifting...
Captain Kirk (Starfleet, retired) saves us all from terrorists at a powerplant, but he forgot something...
I'm a detective sent to a research station two billion years ago. The ancient atmosphere isn't just anoxic, but deadly...
I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!:
A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost.
And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change...
CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
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 dream-lecturer says Shadows aren't just what we hate or fear, but what we admire yet see as "not us"...
CAUTION: IDEAS
Shevek invents time-travel and discreetly alters the past. But the future alters
Shevek's present, to undo his changes! Who's sabotaging him? Or... WHAT?
A girl lies dreaming in the street; no one can wake her. At last I yell
"Face it, she's dead!" But is she? I never try a fairytale kiss...
Lost in the snow, I must give my baby to a stranger or let my dad put him in a box, safe, forever...
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
Numb, sunk in a trance, I only woke when I broke through a wall to light and magical birdsong...
Two big spoiled realities pester me to take care of them. At last I go on shamanic strike...
A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson...
CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
I dreamed a small plane crashed and burned, but also how the pilot
might be saved. I asked my husband to direct the firetruck...
Half our religion-founders were just one guy, repeating till he got it right. Practice makes perfect!
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...
The traditional figure is blindfolded, holding two crossed swords. I used crossed TV antennae...
I paint my thumb with bitter aloes to break my habit of sucking it at night. I dream of
wormwood, ox gall, mineral salts. I consult Dr. Save Me and even the Pope, but...
That day: I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah.
That night: I dream she leads a revolution on a starship against her elders...
Our band's touring Titan. Road trip blues: diners, feuds, romances. Have I been chasing the wrong girl?
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died,
but he still wants to teach me his medicine...
I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones...
CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM
Ballerina Joan Brady quit, but ten years later, returned. Her body rejuvenated! So what can MINE do?
A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
The real pursuit of happiness: she pursues me, and I run in shame and hide! But she's persistent...
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow
deep social change is. How we cling to the old horrors!
I didn't even think of "windbag" since it didn't talk a bit.
That bag was all action--full of flying magic...
Nancy Friday describes a kind of weak guy disturbingly like me--I think chronic illness has...
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
I'm in an apartment co-op in Silicon Valley where people share their skills--till rush hour begins...