“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The number of remembered dreams should be much higher than your present system allows. … I also suggest that the first recalled dream for any given evening be compared with the first recalled dream from other evenings, and that the second recalled dream from any one evening be compared with the second dream from other evenings, and so forth.

Third, we were involved in vigorous subjective activity as we began to experiment with Seth’s psy-time regularly and to follow his suggestions concerning dream investigation, recall and utilization. When we began, neither Rob nor I really suspected that there was a separate dream dimension in which dreams happened. Though Seth told us that the experiments in dream recall would automatically make our consciousness more flexible, his real meaning didn’t come through to me until I found myself manipulating dreams and later having out-of-body experiences from the dream state.

The method of dream recall just given will allow many people to remember more dreams in a month than they previously did in their entire lives. Variations will occur, however. Periods of excellent recall are sometimes followed by poorer ones, and each individual seems to have his own cycle of significant activity.

Now, there is something else to be considered. The very self-suggestions that will enable you to recall dreams will also change their nature to some extent. This is all right, and the effect will be minimized when the newness has worn off. Again, we want the dreams in the sequence in which they occur. If you do not want to wake up after each dream of the evening, then the suggestion should always include ‘I will recall the first three dreams … or the first five dreams, or whatever.’

[...] These will be the easiest for you, Joseph, to recall.

[...] Your projections do involve you in extensive levitations from the dream state, but you recall only a few. [...]

If possible, you should make an effort to conquer the fear involved with levitations, for the fear prevents you from recalling such experiences. [...]

You often travel together in projections, and you should be able to recall these in time.

I would suggest however that the first recalled dream for any given evening be compared with the first recalled dream from other evenings, that the second recalled dream from any one evening be compared with the second dream from other evenings, and so forth. [...]

[...] I believe Ruburt’s top number of recalled dreams for one night was thirteen. [...] The very self-suggestions that will enable you to recall your dreams may also change their nature, to some extent, for any action changes any other action.

[...] The simplest part of the experiment will involve the use of self-suggestion in dream recall.

[...] Again, if preferable we want to record the dreams in the sequence in which they occur, so that the self-suggestion should always include “I will recall the first three dreams,” or the first five dreams or whatever number you arbitrarily chose to begin.

[...] That night, all night it seemed, I was concerned with the hostages, uneasy, though I don’t recall actual dreams. [...]

[...] All I recall was bewilderment that the world and everyone in it thought that the events were taking place now, while they weren’t in my time scheme at all. [...]

[...] Recalled writing a poem as a child that I had completely forgotten, and at the time it had seemed tremendous to me. I recalled only the first two lines: “My backyard is a garden, In beauty unsurpassed.” [...] I recalled an item on the roof I had been trying to paint lately. [...]

(It will be recalled that in the 83rd session, August 31, 1964, [in Volume 2], Seth commented on the work of Freud and Jung, and mentioned some of the distortions Jung’s work in particular contains.)

[...] She vaguely recalled hearing her voice. [...]

[...] This was a new feeling as far as she could recall, although she wasn’t sure whether or not it began at last break.)

(I recall telling Barb she would make another? [...] Maybe I said in Greenwich, Connecticut. Something about another man also that I don’t recall. [...]

[...] Wouldn’t know; it was supposed to be afternoon I do recall that.

[...] But I am not aware and wasn’t of the way in which the impressions came; not one image that I recall. [...]

[...] Recall; it is only the first less emotional part that yielded the precise information as far as I know. [...]

You could not physically handle anything like complete dream recall. [...] This does not mean that far greater dream recall than you have is not to your advantage, because it certainly is. I merely want to explain why so many dreams are not recalled.

[...] You can make great strides by understanding and recalling dreams, and by consciously participating in them to a far greater degree. [...]

As a civilization you fail to reap dreams’ greater benefit, and the conscious mind is able to handle much more dream recall than you allow. [...]

[...] If you do not recall, upon awakening, them I am now giving you the suggestion that you will recall during the morning as you go about your chores. [...]

[...] It is not difficult, it is easy, and you can recall these experiences without effort. [...]

[...] Both of us were still puzzled as to what’s been going on since Day 1. I told her I’d had another dream last night about our moving back to 458 West Water, but that I couldn’t recall it. This in turn triggered her own memories that she’d had several dreams last night that she couldn’t recall either.

[...] She recalled mentioning my name often in conversation with Mary Piper, particularly to the effect that I might be concerned because she, Jane, did not return promptly. It will be recalled that the Pipers witnessed the 73rd session [See Volume 2].

The ego, if you recall, is self’s attempt to set itself apart from action, and to see or perceive action as an object. [...]

The deeply and strongly dimensioned sphere I used as an analogy for an action, if you recall, for any portion of action; you can now indeed further imagine one entity being composed of such an action, with egos like many faces looking outward in all directions, and each perceiving vastly different fields of reality; looking inward and outward, backward and forward as it were, through and beyond. [...]

Recall brief last scene again. [...]

Also very vaguely recalled. [...]

“Dreams and the Crucifixion, Creativity and Inspiration, Importance of Dream Recall”

[...] I am speaking now of the dream experience as it occurs and not of the remnant of it that his ego allows him to recall.

Your scientists would learn more about the nature of dreams if they would train themselves in dream recall. [...]

Using hypnosis, you can get good dream recall with a good operator. [...]

[...] It will be recalled it is borrowed from Ruth Klebert, one of Jane’s ESP students. [...]

[...] Jane reported that she was pretty well dissociated, but recalled the last few sentences with a smile. [...]

(As far as I can recall, this is the first time Seth has stated such an approach to a problem, explicitly; although in the past he has referred to various subjects by saying he was not well informed about them.)

[...] This is also the reason, the main one, why Ruburt has not recalled his.

[...] It will be recalled that Philip is the name of John Bradley’s entity. [...]

[...] She had coughed but little, yet did not recall whether or not she had. [...]

(It will be recalled that:

[...] Bill recalls no such boat, stating he did not pay particular attention to boats. [...]

All I recall is final scene. [...]

If you recall the dream it may seem to you that you were in your physical body. [...]

[...] The embellishments may be portions of other dreams, recalled now out of context, and attached to your memory of the original root dream.

[...] She didn’t recall too much of what Seth had said.)

(There was more, of course, that I didn’t get down, or recall, but it would follow the same vein. [...] It served to make me think anew that when such memories are recalled consciously, then those involved are compelled to deal with them. [...]

[...] She said little at first, though I could tell she was recalling material from that past relationship. [...]

[...] The dream as you recall it is already a translation, then, but an experienced one. As a language that you know is, again, dependent upon other languages, and implied pauses and silences, so the dream that you experience and recall is also one statement of the psyche, coming into prominence; but it is also dependent upon other events that you do not recall, and that your consciousness, as it now operates, must automatically translate into its own terms.

“If you will remember our imaginary man as he stands upon a street, you will recall that I spoke of his feeling all of the unitary essences of each living thing within his range, using the first Inner Sense. [...]