An albatross with beautiful eyes transformed into a woman. But her nose remained a beak! She asked me...
A witch and I duel with blades carved of spiral horn. But we're both out to create an utterly truthful oracle. Isn't there a better way?
Blake dreams he's a young queen with an uneasy relationship to her guardian angel...
Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her...
CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK
A sad, frail, very pregnant woman with dark brown hair told me she was my boyfriend's wife. The next day...
My son Billie, his Navy uniform soaking wet, cried "Oh, Mom--it's so terrible!" and shrank into a baby again as I held him...
CAUTION: EXPLOSION
I know I'm a murderer; what isn't so clear is what I killed and why...
CAUTION: DISMEMBERMENT, GUILT, DREAD
My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die...
CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES
A woman who posed as a Starfleet officer discovers other frauds on board. She blows the whistle on them...
The night before Julius Caesar's assassination, his wife dreamed of his death and tried to warn him, but politics...
A woman's stalked by a clay monster that eats heads. But it has a proposition for both of us...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTER
It's the Vietnam era; my draft board tolerates only a secret quota of COs. I decide not to tolerate THEM...
The tale of a gray heart trying to heal leads to unicorn-hostage drama in the Transamerica Pyramid...
CAUTION: SEX, MAFIA THREATS, VIOLENCE
I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention...
CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT
On the Euphrates, one crocodile eats all his kin, bloating monstrously. But when a winged ship appears, he feigns remorse...
We were as if brother and sister of old in the desert land; they sold us in slavery together before this life had begun...
I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow?
CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE
My sister's new guru tests me psychologically--only it looks like an engineer's test to destruction...
CAUTION: EMOTIONAL CRUELTY
Dr Who, that BBC perennial, allies with Death. An alarming turn-around! What's he up to?
CAUTION: NICE ALIEN GOES BAD?
Terse dreamlets quietly catch World War I's effect on civilians far behind the front. Who died in the trenches? Faith...
Tarot cards fuse and meanings layer, to warn me I've similarly (con)fused real and trance-induced memories during therapy...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
In school, I'm seen as a freak--lied to, set up for little pranks. Not by my classmates--my teachers...
My recent attitude changes are so big, I can fly now. Yet I hide them, lie to my family... why?
I spoke a proverb I’d never heard of when I woke. So I Googled it, and found it had meaning--dark meaning...
CAUTION: TURKISH JINGOISTS WILL NOT LIKE THIS DREAM
A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
An Oxford teaching assistant sexually blackmails one of his law students, but to his shock she goes public...
I hear voices: "The road to success is in Kafkat, in a place called Goshen." I look back, and see seven male shadows...
I dreamed my late stepdad warned me to stand by my mother--she'd be in trouble and people would gossip and blame her...
I'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change...
A witch advocates honesty, but kids mock her; one boy tries to rape her. We fight mid-air, riding her broom...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse...
CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
I read 'The Closing of the American Mind," and dream I'm a pilot who suspects an illusionist in my plane...
I’m so sick of irony I decide to get my sense of irony surgically removed and replace it with...
CAUTION: PLAYING WITH FIRE
Shepherding a group of cityfolks through an alien wilderness, I need a werewolf's help. So why do I lie?
To investigate a criminal couple, I have to lie. And that's hard, since all my lies turn true...
CAUTION: NEW AGE AND FILM NOIR DON'T MIX
My mom hires a therapist who really goes for my throat! Why is she so desperate to make me lose my...
CAUTION: OVER-THE-TOP CONFRONTATION
Getting rid of lice was easy. Harder was quelling the gossip and rumors from my co-workers and boss...
CAUTION: A LOUSE OF A BOSS
I stood in the desert preparing for a contest with a man and his snake. But he cheated! Then my cat Lulu intervened...
Beverly Cleary's Ramona is a popular teen, but she's having a nervous breakdown. And her best friend...
CAUTION: STUDENT-TEACHER AFFAIR
I miss all sorts of cues I'm dreaming, but I ignore my conviction I'm awake and try to fly anyway...
My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels...
Why couldn't Adam Smith (that fool Pandora) keep our glittering greed in the box asleep?
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
I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed...
CAUTION: SEX
I had fun playing fortuneteller, until David. My hands turned icy and my whole body tensed. I asked "Where are you going?"...
Talk about mixed messages! Or... is it really?
CAUTION: NUDITY, SLIGHT FIRE HAZARD
Jesus's disciples kvetch that Paul, who never knew Jesus, perverted his clean simplicity into a religion...
CAUTION: JARGON, HERESY (on one side or other)
Three big tap-dancing kidnappers is too many to fight. So I try admiring their kidnapping technique...
I dream I’m telling a tall tale about a cat-funeral with hung-over mice pulling the hearse. But it all turns a bit too real...
Compulsively honest spirit-women with waterjugs invade my friend's house.
I wake to find my girlfriend's obsessing on hair loss. To calm her, I babble about limb loss...
and wake again to find she was a dream too.
A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they...
CAUTION: NUDITY
My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away...
CAUTION: DOOM
A man gets his big brother blamed for his crimes, til their sister makes him shoot his own reflection. But neither one expects...
Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse; my oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snotty aunt; I wake in a stranger's bondage dream and hate it; shepherds watch for gliderwolves on the ocean floor...
CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE DREAM
Samuel Pepys dreamt of kidneystones, pee, come, & snot--or did he? Thomas Macauley dreams his niece confesses...
I'm sentenced for a crime I didn't commit; then the bailiff beats me for "resisting", though I'm not...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, SWEARING
Multiple tornadoes touched down in the fields, but the farmer's wife sewed in a rocking chair, oblivious. I moved to warn her but my lieutenant said...
I careen from a shamanic laboratory to a shattered ring round an alien world to (gasp) an honest politican...
I was warned Wolf-Cats turn on people, but I still befriended one. Now I'm looking down its throat...
A toxic site in Silicon Valley isn't a chemical spill, but angry ghosts, killed in a camp and forgotten...
CAUTION: THE CAMP TURNS OUT TO BE REAL
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity...
After a day of nonstop art, I'm in rural China. Two women tell me their village declared them dead, killed by demons...
Jealous of newlyweds, I grind my teeth to splinters. But the Great Ice did that to Sierra granite, and that turned out fine...
For flirting in the astral cafeteria, we all get sentenced to group therapy--till I catch the lie in my life...
When my friends and I learn to fly, all of Middle Earth turns against us! Fleeing from Saruman's army, I bonk my head, exposing the backstage truth about our world...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, DOOM, PHYSICS! YODA IN THE TUB!
I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by...
CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION
I visit Earth during an all-female era. I'm a woman, can pass for local--so why do I lie to fit in?
CAUTION: SEXIST SLUR
I see great towers rising into a fog zone--or is it another universe, with different rules? How do you draw both worlds?
In bed with my sister and Emmanuelle of the sex films, I learn a little something about denial...
CAUTION: SEX, INCEST, INSIGHTS