I flew over a forest. I noted the trees were all the same, and told myself to remember this...
I had a dream about a beautiful dragon. It is not easy to put something from your dream onto paper...
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
I'm in a barn full of peaceful animals lit by a golden glow. And then they all blacken, crinkle, and corrugate like burnt paper...
This was my first sculpture. I was around four. The rest of the preschool class made bunnies and snowmen. But I'd been peeking at Isamu Noguchi and Henry Moore in my mom's art books, so...
I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house...
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
In my teens, I knew I wasn’t human. So I sculpted and animated and fell in love with and worshiped furry figurines...
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
I sought a dream of Helpers. But rather than give me gifts, they gave me a daunting challenge...
A ghost complains Herdis's grandma has a bothersome aura. Herdis wakes, tells Grandma, and they dig up the floor to find...
Dream haiku laid out like a calendar. Roswila's favorite is the pirate, but mine is the were-salamander...
I never flew in my dreams. I felt cheated. So one day I set out to CREATE dream-flight...
My eighth grade class is a flock of birds migrating south for the winter, but we don’t migrate the easy way...
I face a barrage of deadly challenges out of every action film I've seen and every game I've ever played...
Walking around my brother's farm, I met this goat with a human head. It seemed like he'd been playing with matches...
Gudrun dreams of four treasures lost: a hood, a bracelet, a ring, and a jeweled helm. Her cousin sees four marriages...
From age six on, Simon nightly climbs mountains and faces roaring floods in a sort of naptime bootcamp...
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
That day Frederic, craving irises, fell in the water three times. At night he swam through a warm-water iris paradise...
One of my first recorded dreams--how I foolishly turned away from Lobster Love...
CAUTION: CHITINOUS SEX
Jung (at age three and a half) sees a terrifying god deep underground, and is told "That is the man-eater!"...
As a boy in Australia I briefly died on the operating table. I found myself living among the Mimi, spirits living in rocks. I grew up, grew old, died--and woke up nine years old again...
A sketch I made as a kid in a museum, of a Navaho painting of horses who got me hot...
Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
On a cloud in space I met an ape molding a model of the Earth, glancing at the original far below us. We were much alike...
One of my earliest drawings, of a quiet crowd of melancholy ghosts...
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 found myself upon a stone pillar in a valley. Invisible people sat on other stalagmites, but my voice couldn’t reach them...
Not a guy with a tan. Yves Tanguy was a sailor who became a Surrealist. When I was nine or ten, his work inspired me to try my first landscape drawings...
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.
This little man comes into the chapel, makes a fascist salute, and catches fire. He burns right down to his shoes...