A whole convention of adults abused as kids shows me how hard it is to hide the damage...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
A nondream vision of an alternate Earth where continents are abysses, abysses continents...
In spring the young allergic longs for the lusty world but cannot join the All-Orgy...
When you really observe animals in language programs it's obvious WE'RE the ones missing a lot...
What makes so much animation all feel the same? Temptations inherent in the medium...
I dream of Beren and Luthien happy and mortal in their forest, and wake to find...
A jaundiced dream of an art show that spelled out just how deeply I reject the rules behind modern art...
JFK and Marilyn as our gender archetypes, and their effect on the real gender gap: lifespan, not votes!
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, BUT I GUESS IT'S TOO LATE NOW
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...
I heard a noise out my window. I looked out, and saw something strange...
My take on IQ, racism, Murray and Herrnstein's notorious book, and the theory of multiple intelligence. As an (ex)child prodigy it's not theoretical for me: broken hearts, broken trust, broken ribs...
CAUTION: LONG WORDS, RAMPANT ELITISM, GENIUS SHOPTALK
A human pinball game played in the dark, with bells for stoppers, sorting people into a Gaussian bell-curve...
Anti-ideological rant calling experience water and belief... ice.
A capsule history of a taboo that changed startlingly over 3000 years... does sin depend on timing?
CAUTION: SEX TALK, TABOOS
Tour beautiful, bizarre worlds most exobiologists would write off as hopeless for life, and meet the natives...
CAUTION: SEXY ALIENS, WEIRD CUSTOMS, EVOLUTION
Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode?
When girls get their clits cut, even the UN takes notice. But mutilate boy genitals, and... big yawn!
CAUTION: TALK ABOUT SEX AND VIOLENCE--BUT HEY, IT'S ONLY BOYS
Bradbury's Mars was based on his life in Venice, California. What worlds grow out of my San Francisco?
A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness...
CAUTION: WET T SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
Can our interracial family survive? Not just cultural conflict, but our instincts clash around sex--and incest...
CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
That moment when you tire of your old trauma and suddenly turn to the sun. Or fun.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
Mark Clifton wrote science fiction tales of mutant psychic geniuses--only he wrote from life...
I'm in the Mideast. No wonder it's a war zone--it's a vast pit BUILT for war! But a spiral stair leads slowly out, to...
A spiral dream-instrument I'm building, that's easier to play than a piano or guitar, and a lot snakier...
Suddenly I see the notion of "cool" as just another Euro theft. Being cool shouts "I'm insecure"...
Coyote invades an abstract painting and reveals why the art biz likes conceptual, impersonal art...
Coyote's pagan parody of the Christian Lord's prayer. Well, actually, it's kind of sweet..
CAUTION: SACRILEGE, ESPECIALLY THE BIT ABOUT TEMPTATION
Cartoonist Robert Crumb doesn't aim at taboos--he stalks his own feelings, ignoring rules! A learnable technique...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
Normal people want someone complementary. Weirdos want someone like them. Why? Economics!...
Evangelists pester me, until I'm so mad I make an on-the-spot deal with...
CAUTION: MAD AT CHRISTIANS AGAIN
A catalog of American addictions and the absurd distinctions we make between them....
CAUTION: EMBARRASSING DRUG LIST
I'm actress Nicole Kidman, clinging to the dome of City Hall like King Kong, ripping it to shreds! Why?
CAUTION: VANDALISM, REVERSE SEXISM, EXHIBITIONISM
A novel on a modern woman called to become a shaman echoes my real life too closely...
Sprague De Camp says religions seduce us with emotional comfort. Is dreamwork science or faith?
Artists have their own strange culture, and we can unintentionally mislead therapists unfamiliar with us...
CAUTION: THERAPESE
What Earth will look like 1000 years from now, with doubled CO2, flooded coasts and melted poles...
CAUTION: CALLS GEORGE W. BUSH A BIG FAT LIAR
Mute, paired images, contrasting life with the death we're spreading. And then finally the dream speaks:
CAUTION: READ THE TITLE AND GO SABOTAGE SOMETHING!
What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts and feelings invade you? When other's BODIES invade yours, it's molestation...
Evolution is like baseball--a game of inches, efficiency, constraints. Surely we can do better....
CAUTION: CONTAINS THOUGHT
We see patterns everywhere... but that also means we relegate nonpatterns to the background...
A book's example of a mathematical savant made me stop and try to do what he did. I can! Can anyone?
I have weird, bad luck around dating. Finally I go on a picnic with Page, and the Great Fire begins...
In the richest regions of the sea, dead stuff wells up to meet the light. Do we have similar zones?
My take on what Georgia O'Keeffe claimed she was up to with those giant flowers...
For two years, I sat at the desk in our co-op gallery, and secretly sketched our bewildered, art-assaulted customers...
A narrative mural on the sexiness of dancers, as I became one--at the moment I lost my old geeky self...
For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted...
In older studies at least, women dream of both sexes but men dream largely of men. Just like TV, huh?
CAUTION: YOU'LL NEVER WATCH TV AGAIN
The two commonest sexual orientations have no names, or even concepts! Yet they're obvious, once...
CAUTION: THE TRUTH THAT DARE NOT BE TOLD
Advice of a specialist on the care and feeding of child prodigies, embarrassingly relevant for adult geniuses...
So I looked out my window and saw this guy burying a tiny robed woman in a trench in the street...
I was painting to a sad scary song by Laurie Anderson that goes "This is the hand... the hand that takes..."
An insight about a fictional character who unblocks her creativity changes my own life strategy...
James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
When your brain-cops are edgy, you're getting warm!
From a paleolithic doodle--an early self-portrait rebelling against my gender, and trying on beauty...
When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES
Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming...
Her film about her teenage affair with a pedophile is troubling enough before the FBI steps in to blackmail her...
CAUTION: MOLESTATION/ABUSE ISSUES
I had a headache and couldn't sleep. I started drawing, and asked for a cure. And a cartoon angel said...
CAUTION: TANTRUMS, MASTURBATION, JUNKFOOD, ANGELIC SCOLDING
Writer Joan Grant, who was a psychic and trance channeler, got a sort of reading herself, from H.G. Wells...
Jung's dreams and interpretations show he's a thing-guy not a people-guy. All that architecture!...
At least fantasy and science fiction address my life-issues; "realism" just declares me nonexistent...
Klimt did a deep portrait of a lesbian couple back when most folks hardly saw gays as human...
I'm starting a project that'll build chromatic instruments easier to learn and play than conventional ones. The Project describes nine interface designs, from staggered keyboards and button-grids to my favorite, the helical Coil. Wanna be in on it?
Illness is such a handy excuse when you need solitude, care, rest, or just time to think... but...
Engineers! How they do love to impose clean lines on our messy world...
The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich and power what they really want: ranking and attention...
CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS
Recycling used paint to lighten pavements could lower continental temperatures a fraction of a degree...
A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly, as deniably as me and my sisters...
CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
A vast sea-world with 8 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species...
CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
Phyllis Schlafly, who killed the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam... Can I learn the lesson of the tree?
CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO!
Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies...
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER
The image got lost, but the words survived, so here's the poetic saga of an ant that left th' farm...
Mars as it will be 1000 years from now, terraformed. A guided tour with photos...
As a kid I was haunted by the parallels between Menolly of Pern and me...
A mad experiment one night in Micrography, with a midnight rant for scripture and my girlfriend for God...
CAUTION: BLASPHEMY OF SOME KIND OR OTHER
Unfortunately, this is not a dream at all...
Robert Coles wrote a book on kids' moral sense, but his examples don't tell me what they tell him...
A dream explaining why everyone with any moral vision gets filtered out of politics now...
I have all the signs of multiple personality but memory gaps. But YOU all have gaps every night...
CAUTION: BACKGROUND SEX
ESP is like having neutrino detectors for eyes: what radiates from people's cores blinds you to their surfaces...
A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras...
CAUTION: IDEAS
My first memory is of being a wild horse, and waking up to find I was now a human child...
No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...
A model of a Europa-like moon with life under thinly ice-covered seas...
Kate Wolf sings that ads are way dirtier than porn. But my memory slowly twists her message...
When I was battered, I briefly lived on the streets. What struck me was how fragile most of us were...
CAUTION: GRIM
A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one!
I put a singles ad in our paper, but I just couldn't say what I really wanted to. Now, I can...
CAUTION: SEX, DRUGS, AND DOGGEREL
Alternate Earths, possible futures, and pure experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. Most of them teem with intelligent creatures--alien Edens!
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, COMMIES, EVOLUTION
I suspect we child prodigies and geniuses are as unlike the gifted as normal people. So here's a checklist...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
Child prodigies may develop allergies due to immunosystem damage from too much testosterone in utero...
News of a child prodigy who was given the support I wasn't, triggers a flood of envy and bitterness...
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow deep social change is. How we cling to our worldviews!
My sister's avoiding our nosy parents, but I sense they'll run into her soon. I just didn't know HOW soon...
The rest of us heavenly bodies have each other, but from the Sun's viewpoint, we're just rubble. Alone...
Why wait for the Rapture when you can use a chinup machine and raise yourself off that cross?...
CAUTION: NUDE PSEUDO-CRUCIFIXION, SACRILEGIOUS SELF-HELP
How do we make dream narratives readable, when most readers are raised to think they're nonsense?
Biking, I find myself chanting a dinosaur name. I don't even know what it is. At home I open a novel, and a Rhamphorhynchus appears, politely defined for me by our obliging universe...
My sister and I played games based on the Rhine Institute's ESP studies. Our scores were not random...
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
Think of your dreams as a rainforest, clearcut every morning--unless you make the effort to remember...
CAUTION: TINY NAKED ANGELS
Carl Sagan on the radio mocks ESP and UFOs. So I dream of a flying pewter teapot, and wake to learn...
A hard-hitting rap on Satan's dumbest disguise. Yet he's gotten away with it! The shocking truth...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE! SACRILEGE! MUCILAGE! (FOR THE BIG WHITE BEARD)
Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature who's only just evolved speech...
A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation...
CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in strobe photos. Like weird undersea growths...
WARNING: NAKED CATS
Robert Bly's books on men and mentors provoke a dream of co-opted Star Trek captains and rebellious midgets...
CAUTION: IF YOU LIKE BLY...
After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness...
First, suck up 90% of Earth's seas. Now wait a million years for life to adapt. Tibetan plateaus above steamy new Deeps ruled by giant parrots, ravens and otters...
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm made nurse to her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful...
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...
A rant on over-disciplined Americans (NOT under; we just think we are) taking up spiritual disciplines...
A street poet preaches a gospel of smallness, until he pokes at capitalism in a slightly too personal way...
I froze in dance class when I followed anyone else's script. Was it fear? A dragon inside said no...
I squabble with my body so much! But sometimes, at the moment of orgasm, we dissolve into stars, and become...
CAUTION: SEX POETRY
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY...
CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE
My unconscious sabotages a lunch date with my friend Stephanie. The tricks get weirder, till...
Do it now! I'm doing it. I'm getting up from the keyboard and stretching. I am a cheetah...
Short dreams sharing a theme: the burden of a big brain on its animal bearer...
The tale of the most truly sincerely religious revelation I've ever witnessed...
CAUTION: REAL WITCHES
I like bad taste. Taste always tasted like another Anglo conspiracy to keep me from having fun...
I dreamed a sphinx artist visited humanity and drew the crazy natives. I copied her sketchbook and notes...
CAUTION: NUDITY, PAGANISM, SLACKERISM, ACTUAL IDEAS
A weird little identity-confusion at a dance suggests I'm simultaneously psychic, autistic, and... stupid.
What the world looks like when you have environmental illness, like me...
I drilled new poles in my globe and tilted the Earth. Ice Age or Carboniferous? Flood or drought? Come visit tropical Antarctica, the Thai Desert, the Hawaiian glaciers, the jungles of France!
In an oneirophobic society, it's easy to forget that when you do dreamwork, you're doing basic science. No funding, no team, no lab coat? Can't be science! Unless they mistaught us what science is...
Okay, say evolution is driven by things (I don't care what) besides natural selection. How could you tell?
Ballerina Joan Brady quit, but ten years later, returned. Her body rejuvenated! So what can MINE do?
An improvised painting-series exploring my obsession for Utopia--and your deafening silence...
CAUTION: IDEAS, FURRY NUDITY, THAT GOSH-DARN MODERN ABSTRACT ART
All I know about humans, I learned in psychodrama. I gawked as caterpillars grew wings. Except me...
Tour Venus as it will be in 1000 years, after terraforming: paradise for dozens of intelligent species!
Ever since I was battered I feel like a virgin again: longing, but wary--scared where sex may lead...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, SEXUAL THEMES
My life was a sex disaster. I made myself ugly and sick. But then one night I dreamed I found a healer...
WARNING: NUDITY
Dodging between all your -isms, I feel like a bird on a battlefield...
A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
The size of ancient flying creatures implies that Earth may lose more atmosphere over time than we think...
A witch in the future invents a new way to terraform small dense moons--and it'd work!...
Is there really that much difference between the rootless yuppies flooding the West, and war refugees?
Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME
Nancy Friday describes a certain kind of guy disturbingly like me, and I realize chronic illness has made me...
An alternate Titan, Titan as it should have been, with ethane seas full of life...
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it?
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."