“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] But while you are awake this communication also goes on continually but you are not aware of it, for your ego is so focused upon physical reality and upon survival within it, that you do not allow yourself to listen to the inner voice. [...]

It makes no difference you see whether you are awake in your terms or asleep in your terms; if your conscious mind is functioning in either state, you will see him.

[...] If you see him physically and think you are awake, then speak to him mentally. [...]

[...] The interior reality is clothed in dream images as, when we are awake, it is clothed in physical ones. [...]

[...] What Fox called awake-seeming dreams are excellent. [...]

[...] These are dreams when at first you are certain that you are awake. [...]

[...] The physical senses seem to operate with such efficiency that you think you are awake, but their brilliancy is superperfect. [...]

While we may “come awake” spontaneously within a dream, certain procedures do help, and these can induce projections from the dream state. [...]

The next point is to realize that you are alert, conscious and awake, while your body is asleep. [...]

[...] If you come awake while still within your physical body or close to it, you may or may not see your own body as described earlier. [...]

“You’re normally awake,” Rob said. [...]

[...] It was so real and awake-seeming that I was shocked when I finally began to realize ‘I’ had been asleep. [...]

[...] It was easy for me to say yes, since I had come awake first. [...]

[...] My state was remarkably steady and pleasant: I felt awake, aware of what I was up to, and quite free and weightless. [...]

[...] I couldn’t possibly duplicate them while awake.

(My dream Seth referred to took place yesterday morning, and was so vivid I lay awake for an hour after having it. [...]

[...] But because the consciousness is not in the normally physically awake state, it is not aware of these gaps and is relatively unconcerned.

(10:50.) If consciousness vacated the body for the same amount of time from a normally physically awake state, it would consider itself dead, for it could not rationalize the gap of dimension and experience. [...]

[...] “Anything,” she said, rocking back and forth in her chair, meaning she was trying to stay awake and would accept whatever she could get. [...]

[...] Her voice trailed off, and I could see that she was struggling to stay awake. [...]

[...] You assume you are awake under certain conditions, and you assume that you are asleep under certain conditions. [...] It is yours whether you are awake or asleep and this is the state you are reaching them in. [...]

(The first time I read her the session she fell asleep when I got to the Seth material, so after she came awake with a start I read it to her again. [...]

You are, in some respects, more awake when you sleep than you are when you sit in your classroom and listen to my voice. [...]

[...] Yet surely you are wide awake when you brush your teeth, and when you dream surely you will say you are sleeping and your consciousness is dead.

[...] Through later experiments, we discovered that we could bring our normal waking consciousness into the dream state and “come awake” while dreaming. [...]

You think that you are only conscious while you are awake. [...]

If you have little memory of your dream locations when you are awake, then remember that you have little memory of your waking locations when you are in the dream situation. [...]

[...] If in the middle of the night, and fully awake, you believe it is sunrise in physical terms, and cannot differentiate between your personal reality and the physical one, then that balance is disturbed.

[...] It is almost true to say that your species could not survive if all of its members were awake at any given time.

[...] If all of the nations were awake, say, at the same time, such an overload would be almost certain.

[...] I also expect another member of the class to come awake in the dream state and to do very well after two years. [...]

[...] You deal with the psychological components of actions which you will, awake, form into the consecutive corporal “language” that results in the action of your days.

[...] Therefore, you are not able to perceive the true characteristics of the dreaming state except on those few occasions when you “come awake” within your dreams—a matter we will discuss later on in this book. [...]

[...] Portions of the self live a more or less independent existence, both while the dominant personality sleeps and is awake.

You do not know the self as it is within physical existence, and until you do you cannot hope to know what survives physical death, or what part of you is awake while the ego sleeps. [...]