diff --git a/extensions/memory-core/src/dreaming-phases.test.ts b/extensions/memory-core/src/dreaming-phases.test.ts
index 08e1834c7cb..c3452e9cf20 100644
--- a/extensions/memory-core/src/dreaming-phases.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/memory-core/src/dreaming-phases.test.ts
@@ -321,10 +321,9 @@ describe("memory-core dreaming phases", () => {
   });
 
   it("checkpoints session transcript ingestion and skips unchanged transcripts", async () => {
-    const workspaceDir = await createTempWorkspace("openclaw-dreaming-phases-");
+    const workspaceDir = await createDreamingWorkspace();
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_TEST_FAST", "1");
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR", path.join(workspaceDir, ".state"));
-    await fs.mkdir(path.join(workspaceDir, "memory"), { recursive: true });
     const sessionsDir = resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent("main");
     await fs.mkdir(sessionsDir, { recursive: true });
     const transcriptPath = path.join(sessionsDir, "dreaming-main.jsonl");
@@ -432,10 +431,9 @@ describe("memory-core dreaming phases", () => {
   });
 
   it("redacts sensitive session content before writing session corpus", async () => {
-    const workspaceDir = await createTempWorkspace("openclaw-dreaming-phases-");
+    const workspaceDir = await createDreamingWorkspace();
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_TEST_FAST", "1");
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR", path.join(workspaceDir, ".state"));
-    await fs.mkdir(path.join(workspaceDir, "memory"), { recursive: true });
     const sessionsDir = resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent("main");
     await fs.mkdir(sessionsDir, { recursive: true });
     const transcriptPath = path.join(sessionsDir, "dreaming-main.jsonl");
@@ -507,10 +505,9 @@ describe("memory-core dreaming phases", () => {
   });
 
   it("dedupes reset/deleted session archives instead of double-ingesting", async () => {
-    const workspaceDir = await createTempWorkspace("openclaw-dreaming-phases-");
+    const workspaceDir = await createDreamingWorkspace();
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_TEST_FAST", "1");
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR", path.join(workspaceDir, ".state"));
-    await fs.mkdir(path.join(workspaceDir, "memory"), { recursive: true });
     const sessionsDir = resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent("main");
     await fs.mkdir(sessionsDir, { recursive: true });
     const transcriptPath = path.join(sessionsDir, "dreaming-main.jsonl");
@@ -634,10 +631,9 @@ describe("memory-core dreaming phases", () => {
   });
 
   it("buckets session snippets by per-message day rather than file mtime", async () => {
-    const workspaceDir = await createTempWorkspace("openclaw-dreaming-phases-");
+    const workspaceDir = await createDreamingWorkspace();
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_TEST_FAST", "1");
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR", path.join(workspaceDir, ".state"));
-    await fs.mkdir(path.join(workspaceDir, "memory"), { recursive: true });
     const sessionsDir = resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent("main");
     await fs.mkdir(sessionsDir, { recursive: true });
     const transcriptPath = path.join(sessionsDir, "dreaming-main.jsonl");
@@ -717,10 +713,9 @@ describe("memory-core dreaming phases", () => {
   });
 
   it("drains >80 unseen transcript messages across multiple unchanged sweeps", async () => {
-    const workspaceDir = await createTempWorkspace("openclaw-dreaming-phases-");
+    const workspaceDir = await createDreamingWorkspace();
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_TEST_FAST", "1");
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR", path.join(workspaceDir, ".state"));
-    await fs.mkdir(path.join(workspaceDir, "memory"), { recursive: true });
     const sessionsDir = resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent("main");
     await fs.mkdir(sessionsDir, { recursive: true });
     const transcriptPath = path.join(sessionsDir, "dreaming-main.jsonl");
@@ -805,10 +800,9 @@ describe("memory-core dreaming phases", () => {
   });
 
   it("re-ingests rewritten session transcripts after truncate/reset", async () => {
-    const workspaceDir = await createTempWorkspace("openclaw-dreaming-phases-");
+    const workspaceDir = await createDreamingWorkspace();
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_TEST_FAST", "1");
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR", path.join(workspaceDir, ".state"));
-    await fs.mkdir(path.join(workspaceDir, "memory"), { recursive: true });
     const sessionsDir = resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent("main");
     await fs.mkdir(sessionsDir, { recursive: true });
     const transcriptPath = path.join(sessionsDir, "dreaming-main.jsonl");
@@ -906,10 +900,9 @@ describe("memory-core dreaming phases", () => {
   });
 
   it("ingests sessions when dreaming is enabled even if memorySearch is disabled", async () => {
-    const workspaceDir = await createTempWorkspace("openclaw-dreaming-phases-");
+    const workspaceDir = await createDreamingWorkspace();
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_TEST_FAST", "1");
     vi.stubEnv("OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR", path.join(workspaceDir, ".state"));
-    await fs.mkdir(path.join(workspaceDir, "memory"), { recursive: true });
     const sessionsDir = resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent("main");
     await fs.mkdir(sessionsDir, { recursive: true });
     const transcriptPath = path.join(sessionsDir, "dreaming-main.jsonl");