In the dream, I am witness to a vast undulating field of plasma, the fourth type of matter in addition to solids, liquids and gases and likely the most common form of matter in the universe (unless this is superseded by "dark" matter). Above this field of intense heat is a writhing, twisting wire. Both aspects felt "alive" to me and by this, I mean something beyond the metaphoric or allusionary. As I woke, I heard myself saying aloud, "FireWire." After brewing my coffee, I took a piece of sculpture wire and formed an image, trying to capture the sense of the wire's motion in the dream. The red plasma field I created with computer graphics until the image was close to what I saw, though not moving and not "alive" in the same way.

This image felt related to the "Red Sun" image described earlier as well as he "Red Dot" images on the covers of the Dreams, Bones and the Future volumes. The sun is a plasma field. Something is being conveyed here which I'm still wrestling with and that is this odd sense of "aliveness." I'll have more to say about my reflections on this soon.