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[...] This as you fall to sleep. Other suggestions: tell yourself that a portion of you will remain alert while your body sleeps.

(I nodded.) Use those, and keep them foremost in your mind as you fall to sleep. [...]

[...] He also said Jane should use suggestion to teach herself to sleep without a pillow. [...] When I remarked that I often woke up to notice that Jane was sleeping without a pillow, having pushed it aside in her sleep, Seth said this was an indication that her subconscious knew what it was doing. I sleep with a heavier pillow than Jane uses, and sometimes use two; Seth said my reasons were different than Jane’s and that in this case the pillows were not a hindrance.

(Seth used Jane’s pillow data to go on to explain that she had a habit of sleeping with her hands tensed, or sometimes clenched, and that this allowed tension to move up her arms, across her shoulders and into the upper back and neck. [...]

[...] It is of course no coincidence that you were between waking and sleeping when this occurred.

Have Ruburt make one simple request, and no other, before sleep: that he receive therapeutic healing experiences at all levels of his existence as he sleeps, beginning this evening. [...]

(She spends a good deal of her waking time on the couch watching TV, or sleeping away part of the day.

(Jane didn’t sleep very well, so I didn’t call her this morning. [...]

[...] It is not aware of any break while, for example, you are sleeping. It does not know you sleep or wake. It merely exists to a fairly vivid degree while you sleep, and it sleeps but does not die while you are awake.

[...] I see no harm in sleeping until 8:00 the morning after a session, but a balance of schedule is important, and you can see that I wish to relate you to yourself and your work, and not to turn all your energies toward myself.

This happens very frequently when you consciously set the problem before yourself, state it clearly, and then drift into sleep. [...]

[...] Sleeping pills can interfere with this activity.

[...] If you remember having certain dream experiences and waking refreshed, then before sleep consciously think about those dreams and tell yourself they will return.

I have mentioned that what I call the dream universe is indeed composed of molecular structure, and that it is a continuing reality, even though your own awareness of it is most usually limited, for quite necessary reasons, to the hours of your own sleep. [...]

[...] You may say that in sleeping you focus your energies to form a different reality than the reality of waking physical matter.

[...] A small amount of energy only is focused upon the physical field during sleep, enough simply to maintain the physical body within its physical environment.

[...] Finally, she wanted nothing more than to sleep.

(Last night, incidentally, Jane was again busily at work on Seth’s book in her sleep, dictating material that we haven’t actually gotten to yet.

Now, you are all ready and raring to go this evening and I expect some company this evening when you go to sleep and while your bodies lie so quietly in bed, unless you snore, I expect that there will be some unusual activity. [...]

(To Dennis.) For your edification, you have been attending classes for some time in the sleep state and you have been a good student. [...]

[...] As you talk to each other in the bedroom before sleep, since you, Joseph, fall asleep so quickly, remind yourselves together that as you sleep you will attract from Framework 2 the very best events in all areas of your lives.

We have seen therefore that suggestions may be given by the waking personality to the sleeping personality, and these directions will be followed. They will be followed however by the sleeping self in its own fashion, and according to its own understanding. [...]

Again, the nature of space and time is glimpsed more clearly as it appears to the sleeping self, for in the dream state reality is to a large measure uncamouflaged, and the personality appears in a freer state. [...]

[...] You may for example suggest before sleeping that the next day, while you are involved in your working situation, the subconscious will be involved in working out designs for you for your own projects.

[...] And now, good evening and a good night’s sleep.

(I would like to note here that one night during the second week in December, possibly around the 11th or 12th, I awoke out of a sound sleep to become aware that both arms and hands were involved in my rather familiar sensation of enlargement and of elevation. [...] As far as I can consciously recall, this instances is the first I have experienced upon coming out of a sleep. [...]

[...] Dreams, or the dream universe, exists even while you wake, and you only become aware of certain portions of it even while you sleep. [...]

[...] Let it remind you that all things within your system sleep and then awaken, and that jokes constantly told, are no longer funny. [...]

[...] When you go to sleep, you are free. [...]

[...] It is as if the personality in sleep projected out of himself bits of himself, of his own physical matter, thinned out, stretched into an amazing plasticity; plastic properties that can change instantly from one form to another. [...]

You create them both waking and sleeping, although you are not aware of them in the waking state. [...]

Cellular consciousness itself straddles, so to speak, various levels of sleep activity. [...] This consciousness is constant, whether you wake or sleep. [...] In sleep cellular consciousness often intrudes into the dream process, appearing in the form of dream images. [...]

[...] The level of sleep is the real indicator. The individual becomes aware of cellular consciousness at certain sleep levels.

[...] It does no good to tell yourselves that you will leave your body fifty times before you sleep, if in the back of your skull you are thinking, I am terrified. [...]

[...] First of all, when you sleep, in your terms, you are as dead as you will ever be. [...]

[...] When the body sleeps you are no longer focused within it, instead you embark upon other adventures and, in your terms, you advance your own education. [...]

To this extent we indulge in relaxation and sleep, for we can spend a century as a tree or as an uncomplicated life form in another reality. [...]

[...] Only through the use of the intuitions and in sleep and dream states, as a rule, can you perceive the joyfully changing nature of your own, and any, consciousness.

(After I got up and started painting, she began to experience another series of very uncomfortable waves of panic in her sleep, combined with her aching body. [...] I often debated about waking her when she began to cry or whimper in her sleep. [...]

[...] She was restless and quite nervous, lapsing—for the first time—into periods of what approached a sleep state. [...]

[...] “Then go to bed and sleep forever,” she added humorously. [...]

At certain depths of sleep, however, the soul’s perception operates relatively unhampered. [...]

(9:35.) Now this particular level of consciousness, occurring in the sleep state, has not been pinpointed by your scientists. [...]