Picnic on a beautiful grassy hill with all of my Israeli relatives, eating food, flying kites. Some of us go hiking onto a 26 thousand high frozen mountain pass in the Himalayas where we visit some Tibetan Lamaseries. When we get back to the picnic, one of the kites which has been fashioned from a plastic shopping bag flies away and I chase after it. A younger member of my extended family sees the escaped kites and I say, “hey, could you...

I don’t know if I can say anything to ancestral communication or lucidity, but it is nice to be able to remember something about my dreams since that’s been lacking in my life lately. The overall theme seemed to be “busy-ness”; going places and doing things with people; getting stuff done. At first I was dreaming about our gathering and some sort of preparation we were doing. There were stickers we needed to make, and I was organizing...

My ability to connect with my dreams symbolically was much stronger than usual over the past two nights of dreaming. This expanded seeing happened at the Oneironauticum, and then the night after, when we had our homeopathic dose in the morning. I didn’t find there to be too much of a difference between my dreams the first and second night, only the first night, I had more time to enjoy hynopompia. My second night dream was like...

Several of us slept in the same space, a slumber party, sort of Oneironauticum, but also not. Several Buddhist monks were there, scattered in beds and wandering about. A couple of them kept turning on the television, though our hostess specifically said she didn’t want it on. I kept telling them to turn it off again. The Zen Buddhist master who founded one of the main lineages in the states and with whom I had the honor to study, Hakuin Taizan...

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I landed a big contract to landscape the whole city, except I didn’t really do anything with plants, but more with buildings and streets and sidewalks. I turned my street into this wildly banked trough of concrete, so that it was like one long, undulating half-pipe. Everyone that lived there had adapted by selling their cars and getting really good at skateboarding. Outside my building, there was a car tipped into the trough of the half...