“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. Experience is not built up layer upon layer, along the lines of continual moments. Basically, experience has nothing to do with time as you know it. Experience is felt in terms of intensities and value fulfillment. As you should know, an experience lasting only a few moments can outweigh in significance a much more lasting one. The dream experience is rather independent of physical time, and its experience, or rather its intensity—my error—is felt more directly while you are in the dream situation.

Later you may not recall it, but you have a more direct connection with reality in the dream state, and the intensity of the dream experience is more completely perceived. I am speaking now in terms of basic reality. It is less camouflaged in the dream state. For this reason, in any projections you may be startled, for here you also enter a less strictly camouflaged situation.

There is a constant translation of inner reality into objects in the waking state, and a constant translation of ideas into pseudoobjects in the dreaming state. Within a certain portion of dream reality, ideas or thoughts can be translated into pseudoobjects, and transported. This can only happen within certain ranges of intensities. This is what happens when you adopt a pseudoform in projections, though I am simplifying this considerably.

Nor do such projections involve necessarily journeys through space as you know it. There are systems, extremely vivid in intensity, that have no existence in physical reality. It is now thought, I believe, that time and space are basically one, but they are both a part of something else. They are merely the camouflage patterns by which you perceive reality. Space, as you experience it in the dream state, comes much closer to reality.

Projections that deal with your own system will of course involve you in some kind of camouflage. If none is present you know you are out of the system. The dream universe is obviously then strongly connected with your own, since pseudoimages are present. Already you are free to some extent from the space-time reality of your system. Therefore within the dream state you are in the outward areas of your physically-oriented universe, you see.

The spacious present is always present (smile)—my pun—in any work of art. As you should know, there is a difference in the type of mobility of an objective painting, and an abstract one. The fluidity or the spacious present pervades the dream state as it pervades a painting, but the images are projected into the spacious present by the dreamer, according to his own understanding and experience.