“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In dreams consciousness operates to some degree independently of the physical system. In projections this independence is more pronounced. In physical death of course the connection between consciousness and matter is broken. It is broken and yet not entirely severed.

Dream objects are secondary constructions, but very valid ones. Now they do have much more than an imaginative reality, and they do possess consciousness, but a fragmentary consciousness, that can however further develop.

You are quite aware of these constructions as the inner self keeps track of them. You act out many possibilities within dream reality, and within dreams you try out alternatives, and not necessarily short term ones.

You would have made an excellent doctor, for example. In your terms you worked out this possibility by weaving, over a period of three years, a dream framework in which you learned exactly what your life would have been, had you gone into medicine.

Again, this was more than imagination. In the dream state you experienced literally a future life that existed as a definite possibility. You examined a probability, in other words, and chose another.

This traveling in probable systems goes on constantly, with variations, in the dream state. The individual chooses then which probabilities he desires to make actual in physical terms.

(I had no conscious memories of being interested in medicine while in my teens, but then neither do I recall dreams from that period. Perhaps eight years ago I did a series of medical illustrations for the hospital in Sayre, PA. I enjoyed doing these very much, and remember being surprised at the time at the aptitude I seemed to show for such work. I had never done such work before. The work won prizes during its travels about the country.

The point is that such dream episodes represent probable physical reality.

Now. There are always backings off, you see, and new choices however. You may at any point choose differently now. The various choice possibilities were known in the dream episodes. You foresaw then future possibilities within the main choice system.

In your present daily life the same process continues. Most of these dreams are very disconnected from the ego, and will seldom be recalled. The self who pursues these divergent paths is actual however. These are legitimate projections. They represent systems of reality of which you are not aware.

The doctor, you see, that you might have been and are not in this system, once dreamed of a probable universe in which he would be an artist. He continues to work out his own probabilities. Perhaps he paints as a hobby. He exists however in fact, within another system. You call his system an alternate system of probability but this is precisely what he would call your system.

Now you will have some experiences that are shared in the dream state. They will be involved with episodes familiar to you both before you went your separate ways. You are like two limbs from the same tree. You recognize the same mother. Some of these probable systems are based upon molecular structure, and your appearances in such systems would be similar, though not identical, you see.

Now the dreams that you would have, and had, in shared experience, are root dreams. Such root dreams serve as a method of maintaining inner identity, and of communication. There may be flashes of realization in such dreams. Projections may occur also from root dreams. You may project for example into the life of that physician.

There are also some root dreams shared by the race as a whole.

Most of these are not as symbolic however as Jung thought them to be, though he used a different term, and had only a dim conception of them. Many root dreams are literal interpretations of abilities used by the inner self.

Flying dreams you see are not symbolic of anything. They are valid and actual experiences, though often intermixed with other dream elements. Falling dreams are experience. They represent downward motion in your system, or a loss of form control during projection. They may of course be embellished with other material.