I show a young woman my new bedroom. Several bright cloth quilts hang on the wall, no bigger than napkins. No, not quilts--hard panels with things attached. One color dominates--magenta. Others are equally bold-colored, but just less attention-grabbing--unsure why.

A long strip of many such little square taped together runs down the wall and across the floor, by the shower stall or bathtub and up the other wall. Uh-oh. I don't want the art to get moldy! Could I rehang this strip up the wall, across the ceiling to the other wall? How to keep it from sagging off the ceiling? Leave it where it is, for now.

The whole room blushes magenta from their light.

This girl is kind of an expert on such small-rectangles-of-whatever-these-are, and explains how mine might retail--knows way more than me about the art business.

On the opposite wall is a big bulletin board with dozens of cardlike mini-samples of... whatever these are. Most are abstract, with short written messages or slogans, and bits of symbols, and feathers, crystals, gears glued on. Eclectic! A few are black and white but most are, again, bright hot colors. More like my housemate Sarah's stuff...

NEXT DAY

Sarah, an installation artist, flies back to England tomorrow. As a farewell piece, she covers windows with magenta squares of paper, tinting the front rooms' light as if there's a fiery sunset.

Okay, that explains the installation in my dream--and the more experienced Art Girl giving me advice about getting my work out there, too. Though in the dream it was my art covering the walls. Why?

Rrring! Jose de Palma invites me to hang a large solo show at his gallery. My first in the City.

DECADES LATER

When I first built the World Dream Bank I was biased toward epic, exotic dreams--I favored fully developed stories showing dreamwork was more magical, beautiful and fun than people think.

But now I'm going through old journals and finding a lot of apparently predictive & telepathic dreams like this--short, often plotless, seemingly ordinary, but evidence that the waking world is rather more magical than people think.

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