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I snoozed several times as I set my alarm hours before work started.

I sit on my train to class, and a bunch of girls sit with me, giggling. I skip class and end up going to the Bahamas instead, I meet an American internet friend whom I share memes with every day as well as my friend from the Bahamas. We have a deep amd personal conversation together with a lot of laughs. we have our our photo taken together, but the guy we ask to take a pic of us Snapchats himself instead. A photographer then takes a poor quality pic of us. I then go home. My mom asks where I goes because my teacher from 3rd grade said I apparently went to "Monaco" that day, I laugh as I knew she'd say something like that, giving a speech about how I'm misunderstood by the people while cycling home, but she's too far away to hear me and stopped listening as she came across a friend and had a long conversation with them instead. My imaginary friend Elise makes a cameo and takes a photo of me as a robot part, saying "You're my little screwdriver, aren't you?" while winking at me before I wake up.

I went to elementary school where I, because I apparently kicked over their drinks at one point, kept getting beaten up my this group of very big and strong men. This would occur every lunch break for weeks and I'm pretty sure people ssw me get beaten up but we're too afraid to interfere. At some point I was considering getting my strong friends to become my bodyguard and help me. I was sitting at home on a rainy day, about to have to leave for school when I told my parents, who looked like Boards of Canada for some reason, slowly what was going on, I was building up slowly to that part when I suddenly woke up.

Dream was in English

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.