I dreamt that I was dancing with beautiful, fluid ballroom motion, wearing a flowing floor length yellow gown. My partner was another woman in a similar yellow dress, and we were dancing closely and in complete synch. When I looked down, Continue reading
Author Archives: Kate Chen
Waistband
I dreamt that I was saving a two-inch man from falling, literally, into job loss by grabbing him with my index finger by the elastic waistband of his underwear. I was barely keeping him from slipping, so he was bounced frantically up and down.

Tiny Tim
I dreamt that, in order to keep a man, who looked like Tiny Tim but was called Manfred and loomed large over me as if on a movie screen, alive, I had to keep a match lit. I was allowed to keep re-striking the same match, but it would just go out again and again.

Freddy mask
I dreamt that I became aware of a person standing right behind me. When I turned my head there was the most horrifying and grotesque face staring back at me, a Freddy Krueger-ish image on one of those cheap clear plastic face masks held on by an elastic around the back. He said, “Don’t you recognize me?” I stared and stared, and slowly a familiar face emerged while the mask stayed in place.
Rabbit lantern
A Chinese lantern – white rice paper and a metal frame, encasing many brilliant bulbs, in the shape of an intricately detailed rabbit, with long, pointed shapes, like the rays of the sun, protruding from all sides.
(This lantern just appeared suspended against darkness for a long time, though I am not sure how time is measured in dreams.) Continue reading
Triptych
First, three friends and I were on a city sidewalk during the day looking up at the brownstones across the street. I pointed to the third floor apartment and said, “I want to live there someday.” Continue reading
Risk
I dreamt that I and a few others were on the second floor of a semi-bombed out building looking down on a war zone with soldiers firing guns and civilians wandering about dazed or wounded.
My goal was to identify people who were from every region of the foreign country I was in. Continue reading
Dog door
I dreamt that lots of animals – dogs, cats, squirrels, skunks, rabbits, etc. – including my own dog, were entering my house through our dog door. A friend of mine also entered on all fours through the dog door in the midst the stream of animals. He and I then joined others in my kitchen and he started delivering a political campaign speech to everyone.
Pixelated
I dreamt that the wall in my living room started melting down from the top, like marshmallow topping oozing slowly to the floor. The very top edge of the flow was pixelated white squares until it blended into the smooth, thick topping.

Pots and pans
I dreamt that all of the pots and pans I own were out in my kitchen and their tops were attached to the bases and open like a clam shell. As I went to close each top, it turned to water and splashed all over the floor.