Jaded...

Dreamt that I was in a room with four or five other folks. There was some kind of tablet notebook or computer device that we were trying to program to be a chess board. We were bored and waiting for our supervisor to return with a job evaluation. At one point the notebook turned into a large, folio size art book, about two inches in depth. It had stiff covers of dark cardboard, and the first few pages inside were translucent and embossed with the title, etc. It had the feel of a very expensive corporate report. The other pages were filled with glossy images of colorful nature patterns--could have been an art student's portfolio who wanted to be a graphic designer for an upper scale wallpaper design firm. Some of the images were abstract, often green and ochre in color. Others were closer to actual nature patterns--leaves, rocks, etc.

One page in particular showed a closeup of a very large leaf rendered like a jade sculpture. It was knobbly in texture, dark green with translucent yellow-green highlights where the surface was raised. There was something both attractive and repulsive about it.

One of the other people waiting with me was a woman who was very taken with the image, and when she saw it she began to rant about jade, about how it was addictive and compelling. There were scars on the side of her face. She said something like: "When something finds you, you should hold on to it." I understood her to be talking about finding some compelling obsession in life, and how important it is to embrace it.

The evaluator never returned. I woke.