Oneirin's Dreamworld

7/9/23
I begin flying low in a horizontal position in a dim room with many students. I Realize I’m dreaming. I say “I’m
dreaming” and I tell all the students that they’re dreaming. I ask if they know how I realized. I explain that I
was flying so I instantly knew. I begin thinking about my dream goals. I think about creating a persistent
dream realm as well as the purple crystal to phase through. I reach behind me to pull out the purple crystal
to phase. A faint wisp of the crystal appears in front of me but it doesn’t appear solidified and vivid enough
to teleport through. I vocalize that I want to go to a persistent dream realm and think of azura. I decide not
to try to go through the crystal. I turn to my right and see that the large room extends into the distance. At
the far end site a black wall unit with a black square TV in the center with an additional device on top. I
decide to try to phase through theTV. I make my way across the room and toward the TV. I bump into it two
times, bouncing off. On the third attempt I’m successful and phase through into blackness. I feel that
sensation of my physical body is vibrating into my awareness and I wake up.

7/1/23
I’m in my room in the monastery and something feels a bit off. I plug my nose and can sweat that I can
breathe. My awareness rises and so look at my hands. I see that I have seven fingers and become lucid. The
scene is very gray and murky, yet I hold my awareness through it. The dream goes to black void which I
remain aware in. I soon begin imagining colors, then visualize the gates leading to the monastery. I see the
visualization of the black and white arch come into my field of views. Soon I find myself on the grass to the
left of a long brick structure. I shout “increase clarity now!” several times, insisting that it works. The scene
becomes much more vivid. It appears to be a recreation of the monastery to my right. It is a single story and
constructed of red brick with a dark roof. I begin floating alongside of the building and want to renter, yet
don’t want to disturb any DCs. I find a window which would be roughly where my room is and I phase
through. I find myself in a classroom of sorts with students and circular desks, working on some drawings
which are in color. I make my way to the center of the room and weave my way between the desks. I notice
that there are a couple teacher/monitor figures supervising the room. I decide that I could find Roshi and
ask for a teaching. I begin making my way to the door, yet have a false awakening.
I plug my nose with my thumbs and can breath very slightly. I rationalize that it’s because they’re not fully
plugged, yet don’t adjust it.

*In a talk later in the week, I found out that the Abbot of the Monastery was an artist before becoming a monastic. She shared that she always wanted her life to be an expression of art.
*Not much total sleep and especially REM for the rest of Sesshin.