“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Therefore I will give you some of the energy now from the session, and some when you are in the dream state. Before you sleep remind yourself that extra energy will be available, and that you can use it for a beneficial dream experience of your choice. [...]

(Jane—I did have 3 very hopeful dreams—see dream notebook.)

[...] The dream was in response to our last session, in part, and of your own musings as a result. [...] And your feelings in the dream toward him were your feelings toward those old beliefs.

[...] A copy of Seth’s analysis of my John Wayne dream is attached to the dream in my notebook.

(“How about my dream with John Wayne?”)

(“How about the young couple trapped in the burning car, in the dream?”)

(Last night I had a rather vivid dream that I described to Jane before today’s session. I dreamed that I bought a new red, sporty-looking sedan car at a dealer’s. He wasn’t a very nice or pleasant man, younger than me, who swore a lot. [...]

(While we talked, and as I wrote some of these notes for typing when I got home, I suddenly began to understand my dream of last night. [...] I’ve had much better results interpreting my own dreams in recent months, by the way. [...]

[...] End of dream.

You yourself did an excellent job interpreting your own dream, covering all of its main points and meanings. [...]

(Also on dreams, recently I have had two extraordinarily vivid dreams involving my brother in Rochester, whom we usually see about twice a year. Seth said during Friday’s unscheduled session that these two dreams are significant, and that tonight’s regular session would deal with them. My brother, Bill, is due for a visit here next week; which fact was unknown to us when I had the pair of dreams.

[...] If this is true in this particular instance, then the dream would contain elements of distortion. We find the study of dreams more and more interesting. Jane has now begun a book on dreams, to be done concurrently with her book on the Seth material itself.

(A somewhat similar question arises concerning a dream Jane had on November 30th, and a few lines of the data given for the 22nd Dr. Instream test; see the following lines on page 104 of the 213th session: “He received a book by mail today, a biography sort of book, having to do with a personality of the late 1800’s. A medium.” This material is dated December 1; there follows Jane’s dream of the night before.

[...] Dream not very clear now. [...] As dream opens I see a house; a farmhouse? [...]

[...] and I want you to take particular note with your dreams. And try, ‘cause I know you can all do it, to take your conscious awareness into the dream state. [...] And really see what you can do, ‘cause you can do stuff in the dream state with your consciousness just like you can here. [...]

[...] I think that what you’re doing in the dream state, with what some of us are doing, is really great. [...]  I think that before we finish all the regular class members will be having dream experiences that are as vivid as what goes on in regular class. [...]

(I told Jane of my dream of the night before last, in which she and I and Leonard Yaudes — who had been our downstairs neighbor at 458 — moved into an apartment together at 458. In the dream the rooms were larger and better kept than they really are. I told Jane I suspected the dream grew out of my meeting Leonard at the new Super-Duper market the other night, when he’d joked around and repeated several times how good he felt physically, after his heart operation. Jane said she thought the dream meant that the three of us were all embarked on a journey into better health, a better outlook on life.

[...] I forgot to call our lawyer early, and when I did think of it I said to hell with it and continued work on Dreams. [...]

(“What do you think of the dream I had, about Leonard, Jane and me moving back to 458 West Water Street?”)

[...] I told you that dream reality consisted of more than you knew, and that the dream universe continued whether or not you perceived it. Within that context those inhabitants dream in turn their own dreams and form electromagnetic realities. [...]

[...] Now I am telling you that your own dreams and thoughts and mental actions appear to the inhabitants of other systems like the stars and planets within your own; and those inhabitants do not perceive what lies within and behind the stars in their own heavens.

[...] They will only perceive the shape and form that your own mental acts, thoughts and dreams take within their own system.

[...] This inner ego can also operate within the dream state, and in certain awake-seeming dreams it is the portion that realizes that the personality is not in its normal waking condition. [...]

When in such dreams your perceptions seem exceedingly clear, you can be certain that the inner ego is operating. [...]

[...] It operates in both the waking and the dream state. [...]

It is therefore the director of all activities, both in the waking and dream condition. [...]

[...] In the dream state events from both frameworks are processed. The dream state involves not only a state of consciousness that exists between the two frameworks of reality, but also involves, in those terms, a connecting reality of its own. Here I would like to emphasize that to one degree or another all species of plant and animal life “dream.” [...]

[...] On any given night the intimate events of your dream lives also exist in the greater context of the world’s dreams — in which they have their reality.

[...] To make this discussion as simple as possible for now, at least, think of these two frameworks or states of consciousness as being connected by “undifferentiated areas” in which sleep, dreaming, and certain trance states have their activity. [...]

[...] These often appear in the symbolic language of the arts instead, and many of your dreams are translations in which the events of Framework 2 appear in symbolic form.

[...] You share the same psychic roots, and your joint yet separate dreams are available to “all of you.” This does not mean that you are dreaming someone else’s dream, any more than it means that twins, for example, do. [...] The multistructured nature of the dream state allows for dream dramas in which probable selves do appear. [...]

[...] The exercise may also result in a different kind of a dream, one that is recognized within the dream state, at least, as an introduction to a probable reality. You deal directly with future probabilities in the dream state in any case. (Pause.) For example, in a series of dreams you may try out various solutions to a given problem, and choose one of these.¹ That choice becomes your physical reality.

(Slowly:) The dream state, however, does operate as a rich web of communication between probable selves and probable existences. [...]

[...] Always, however, there was the undeniable inner self in the background: man’s dreams, his biological and spiritual integrity, and these in one way or another were always before him.

[...] (I think I was in my astral body though.) I knew that I was dreaming, thought to myself that it was very difficult to read such material in the dream state but that I would try in any case. [...]

[...] Then again I realize this is a dream and am determined to take my packages back with me, will not let them go. [...]

The system of probabilities is not as easily perceived even as those events that exist within the dream state, for with these you are familiar, while you are in the dream state. Often the ego is even made aware of dream events. Now the self that is the I of your dreams can quite legitimately be compared to the self that experiences probable events.

Now through hypnosis it has been ascertained that this dreaming I has memory of its past existence, which is made up of past dreams. You may call this the dreaming personality if you prefer, but it amounts to another self. Now the I who experiences probable events, not chosen for experience in the physical universe, has the same kind of identity and memory as this dream self. [...]

[...] The probable actions were definitely perceived and experienced however, and these experiences make up the existence of this other portion of the self, as indeed dream actions make up the experience and existence of the dream self, or of the I as it exists within the dream state.

[...] They simply are not concrete for you, as dreams are not concrete for you. You may dream for example of holding an apple, then wake up and the apple is gone. [...]

[...] In dreams, when the self is somewhat free from camouflage, perhaps it is possible for the self then to travel spontaneously into such fields of actuality; but since they are as bizarre to the self as is the dream world itself, then there is no way, usually, for the sleeper to distinguish between the universe of dreams or other actualities.

[...] We will shortly be concerned more directly with discussions of individual dreams. [...] There are various doorways into the dream universe: chemical doorways, electronic doorways, and psychological doorways. [...]

[...] I have told you that it is possible to tune in on the dream universe. [...]

A few of them did involve a tuning into the dream universe. [...]

[...] Such an emotion may of course be given release through dreams, but this is of limited value to the ego involved, since the ego does not accept the reality of dream existence.

[...] As dreams allow the inner self great freedom, and as in dreams great perspectives of time are available, and great freedom in space, though no space as you know it is involved, so it is possible for the ego itself to achieve the experience of freedom from time and space, if it would only allow itself for a short while to relax the intensity of its objective focus.

[...] I am much more concerned for now that you understand the dimensions of action as they exist within the dream world, within psychological realities, and within other scopes with which you are yourselves somewhat familiar.

[...] It is not a structure that takes up space as you know it, obviously, but it is a structure nevertheless, and could be compared to the appearance of dream locations.

(As I drifted off into my nap at 5:15, after finishing my dehypnotizing massage of Jane, I remembered the dream I’d had last night. [...] I’d dreamed, in color, that Jane rebroke her right leg several times in the same place. [...]

(After a few minutes, Jane said the dream could have been related to the injuries the nurse’s aide had suffered to her own impaired leg — the one that had been stapled inside that I described in a recent session. [...]

(Then Jane told me that she, too, had had a negative dream last night. [...]

(It sounds almost as though Jane and I had our worrisome dreams in tandem. [...]

[...] In the dream state you are much more aware of them, although there is a final process of dreaming that often masks intense psychological and psychic experience, and unfortunately what you usually recall is this final dream version.

[...] All dreams are not of this nature. Some dreams themselves do take place in psychic or mental areas connected with your daily activities, in which case no dressing-up process is necessary. But in the very deep reaches of sleep experience — those, incidentally, not yet touched upon by scientists in so-called dream laboratories — you are in communication with other portions of your own identity, and with the other realities in which they exist.

[...] If you do not want to remember a particular dream, you yourself censor the memory on levels quite close to consciousness. Often you can even catch yourself in the act of purposely dropping the memory of a dream. [...]

Projections continue in the waking state, beneath it, as they continue beneath the dreaming state, you see. Now you have learned the methods at least that allow you to become aware of some projections that occur during the dream state. [...]

It can only be achieved as a rule after some proficiency has been gained with recalling dream projections. [...]

[...] This is almost like working backward, for directly beneath the thoughts and impressions of waking consciousness, you will glimpse dream images like those that appear just as you fall to sleep.

[...] This particular exercise however definitely requires some success in the recognition of dream projections.

Dream 1—I was looking at some weird contraption, maybe mechanical, that my father had made, to leave me some money after his death; money was supposed to come out of it. [...]

Dream 2—Don’t recall the beginning but it was in a huge amphitheater and there was a picture in great color on a giant screen to the left. [...]

JANE’S DREAMS

(Here, I would like to call attention to my dream of September 18, 1964. [...] Seth has discussed this dream in considerable detail, without saying much about the opening sequence of the dream. [...] It then struck me this evening that the discussion between Jane, Bill and I, over Jane’s new work, bore some rather remarkable parallels to that opening dream sequence, and I wondered whether that portion of the dream could have been clairvoyant. [...] The main difference between the dream and “reality”, of course, is that the Potter family was not present this evening.

[...] This in turn led to Bill’s telling of some very vivid and upsetting dreams he had been having in recent days; in these dreams his bedroom had seemed to be peopled by apparitions or strangers, he said, entirely unfamiliar to him. From the recent material we had received on the dream world, I said it sounded as though Bill was in contact with other parts of his inner or whole self.

Also, Mark, you should not be afraid of your dreams. [...] If you want to learn more about your dreams and what they really mean, I will discuss them in a regular session. [...]

(Telling us about his recent dream and apparition experiences, Bill had mentioned that at times when his eyes were closed he was aware of the feeling of a white light, or glow, that varied in intensity at different times. [...]

(Long involved adventure type dream, spy adventure I think; I climb cliffs, castle moats etc, seeking clues and am very effective. [...]

JANE’S DREAM