Books and Oil Paint

Date: 7/29/2020

I dreamt I was in a fancy looking hotel. There was a machine where you could buy oil paints and it would dispense it out like a snack machine. I went up to it and tried messing with it a bit, but I couldn't get it to work. I moved aside and a lady went up to it and easily got some oil paint. I asked her how she had done that, but she ignored me. I then went up to a worker in the hotel and asked him how to work the machine, but he gave me a strange answer. I don't remember what his answer was, but it didn't help me any. At some point in the dream, I went up to the oil paint machine again and tried to get it to work again. It looked like a laptop when you selected the oil paint you wanted. I clicked on different things, but I was no where close to figuring out to dispense the oil paint. I even tried to search for water color paint, since I prefer to paint in water color. I didn't find anything though. I then saw a bookshelf next to the oil paint machine and I started looking through it. I picked out a book. It was, "Eyes Like Leaves," by Charles de Lint. My eyes widened. Charles de Lint is my favorite author of all time. I looked through it, excited but then saw that it looked like it had been torn apart. Some of the pages were separated from each other. It was like the book was split up into two different pieces that each had sections of the book. I frowned and then asked the worker if there were any more books by Charles de Lint. He nodded, and went over to the book shelf. He pointed to one book, but I told him it was another author. He then showed me two other books, ones that had Charles de Lint as a co-author. I smiled and looked through the books. At some point in the dream I saw stacks of oil paint sitting on a table. They were packaged in various clear cases with lots of brushes in them and colors like blue and red shades in each of them. I looked through them and smiled. I woke up naturally then, figuring I had slept in a while. It was 12:30 in the afternoon when I woke up, so I was right in that regard.