Finding the Crystal
This was the second night of Oh Shinnah's workshop. The homework for this night was the same as for the previous night, with the addition of answering questions and performing a set of dream affirmations (see MSC00002.MSS (apparently lost))
After preparing everything for bed, I performed a ceremony I often perform just before going to bed. This time I tacked the set of affirmations to the end of the ceremony and did them as intensely as I could manage. The last one was to set the dream to find some information, and I had written something to find on the list. I was, however, doing the affirmations from memory and when I got to the last one, I ignored what I had written and substituted, "I will dream the dream of the ice as it flows to the sea".
I placed my drum and wand across from my bed as a power object and climbed under the covers, taking my little crystal in my hand. I was asleep instantly, and slept absolutely like a log the entire night. No dream images whatever registered in my awareness.
However, at about four in the morning, I noticed I did not have my crystal in my hand, and decided to look for it. I found it lying on the bedspread in front of me, where I think my hand had been when I went to sleep. I reached out and took it. Then I thought, "That's all right, but if I really want the crystal in my hand, I'll have to to wake up and find it there". This is what I did, from a deep deep sleep. I had to turn on the light, and found it under a pillow. Waking on command from a deep sleep is something I definitely don't recall ever having done before. I turned over a couple of times, and eventually returned to the same deep sleep.
When the doves woke me in the morning with their cooing and fighting, I remembered no trace of any image except the crystal finding sequence. I looked for a while for images to build a poem around to fulfill the instructions, but found nothing, so I got up.