A dream of Myoe Sonin (明恵), a 13th century Japanese Buddhist monk: “In a dream...I boarded a boat and was crossing a large ocean. There was something floating on the ocean – a round object about six inches in diameter. It was golden in appearance; and when I tried to pick it up, it flew into my hands. In the bottom of it were stacked seven or eight pages with something written on them. I took them and put them in my robes.”