“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Although I was awake while sleeping and definitely projecting, I didn’t realize this at first. [...] I had no actual memory of leaving my body, and I must have fallen off into normal sleep for a moment, because the next thing I knew, I found myself out of my body, hovering just above my sleeping physical image.

[...] I turned and looked at Carl’s sleeping body. [...] Of course I didn’t. From now on, I will hereby install a pen point in the end of my nose and sleep with my head on a writing table.

[...] His abilities have developed along the lines of psychic-vision, as explained in The Seth Material. His projections have been infrequent, and he never gained conscious awareness of any from the sleep state until this one. “How can I tell if I do have a legitimate projection from sleep? [...]

Physically, I was sleeping flat on my back with my hands down at my sides. [...]

As mentioned earlier, however, in the sleep state you may help recently dead persons, complete strangers, to acclimate to after-death conditions, even though this knowledge is not available to you in the morning. So others, strangers, may communicate with you when you are sleeping, and even guide you through various periods of your life.

In the same way in the midst of life, you dwell with so-called ghosts and apparitions, and for that matter you yourselves appear as apparitions to others, particularly when you send strong thought-forms of yourself from the sleep state, or even when unconsciously you travel out of your physical body.

[...] They are not more ghostly, or “dead,” however, than you are when you project into their reality — as you do, from the sleep state.

These actually continue, whether Ruburt wakes or sleeps. [...] In sleep often new motions are tried out. This may be momentarily disturbing simply because he wants to sleep through—but the body is roused on purpose. [...]

[...] The short dream was so vivid that I was jolted wide awake out of a deep sleep. [...]

[...] He grunted and so forth in his sleep. [...]

Tell yourself that you will, while sleeping, be alert to any changed atmosphere within the room; for there will be a change. [...] Now tell yourself that your conscious mind can be alert while you sleep and dream, alert enough to recognize a changed atmosphere.

Now the suggestion to carry your waking consciousness into the sleep state is of particular value in conscious projections, if you will use it. [...]

[...] It is highly important however for any such work that you begin to train yourself to take your waking consciousness with you in sleep. [...]

You must impress upon yourself before sleep, your desire to meet him consciously. [...]

[...] Without intensive constructive suggestions before sleep the personality shows the status quo relationship of its condition, whatever it is. If it is poor, the sleep is poor, and the inner intuitions denied their therapeutic functions.

[...] When the intuitions are allowed freedom you see they therapeutically aid the personality in sleep and refresh it. [...]

Even in sleep then, energy is used constructively. [...]

This will then allow us to proceed into the relationship between the waking and sleeping personality, and discover the many ways in which the personality’s aims and goals are not only reflected but sometimes achieved in and through the dream condition.

In our final discussions we will, in a practical manner, discuss the ways in which conscious goals can be achieved with the help of the sleeping personality. [...]

It is amazing how man regrets the hours spent in sleep, for he does not realize how hard he works when his ego is unaware.

[...] You will not, again, regret the hours spent in sleep, for you will see how productive they can be, and you will realize how they are woven into the tapestry that makes up your entire experience.

As you all know, you can become as conscious sleeping, and you do, as you are in the normal state, or now when you listen to me. But, if you go to bed this week each night with the idea that you are not sleeping in the terms in which you usually accept that term, but you are instead changing the focus of your consciousness and that you will be as much awake and consciousness, then you will become aware of what you do consciously when you sleep. [...]

Now, if for a week, you looked at your present physical daily reality and your sleeping reality as not two separate existences but one, then they can merge in a most dramatic way. [...]

[...] Now, I tell you that in another reality you are presently sleeping, in your terms, and yet how conscious and aware you are. [...]

Now, when you go to sleep this evening, in your terms, you are every bit as much this conscious and aware. [...]

[...] Why was Ruburt speaking Sumari in his sleep last night?”)

[...] When he speaks in his sleep in Sumari, you have to learn it in order to understand what he is saying. [...]

[...] In the meantime be aware of the waking and sleeping and remember that (very loudly) the energy that sweeps through this form sweeps also through your own. [...]

Now this happens in every night’s sleep. [...] This is the most protected area of sleep. [...]

[...] In all periods of your time they went about their duties both in the waking and sleep state. [...]

[...] There are adjacent states of consciousness that occur within the sleep pattern, that cannot be picked up by your EEG’s — adjacent “corridors” through which your consciousness travels.

Now: There are several very definite stages of sleep, and they all perform various services for the personality. [...]

[...] Our sleep patterns have been quite chaotic, although we seem to be getting along okay. I suppose the evening situation accounts in part for her sleeping during the day, but I also think more is involved. [...]

(Today I’d asked her if she come up with any insights on her own as to why she was still sleeping so much in her chair, even after being home from the hospital for six months. [...]

(However, her knees appear to be swinging back and forth even better, which is an excellent sign, and she can still sleep lying on her left side. [...]

[...] “I go to sleep....” [...]

[...] If you were looking at your daily normal self from the other viewpoint, you see, using an analogy here, you might find that physically waking self as strange as you now find the sleeping self. The analogy will not hold however, simply because this sleeping self of yours is far more knowledgeable than the waking self of which you are so proud.

Now: These other existences of yours go on quite merrily whether you are waking or sleeping, but while you are awake ordinarily you block them out. [...]

[...] 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.

(10:26.) At a very simple level, for example, your consciousness leaves your body often in the sleep state. [...]

[...] Many sleeping pills are detrimental, in that they inhibit the body’s natural response to its environment while an individual is sleeping, and deaden the intimate relationship between the dreaming mind and the sleeping body.

[...] Sleeping pills also impede the critical functions of dreams that are so often overlooked. [...]

[...] Even cellular growth and revitalization are accelerated while the body sleeps.

While you were
sleeping,
all the cupboards
of the earth
were filled.
Mother Earth
sought out each
need.

While you were
weeping,
your tears fell
as sweet rain
drops on small
parched hills
that rise in worlds
you cannot see,
though you are known
there.

While you were
sleeping,
Mother Earth
filled all the
cupboards of your
flesh
to overflowing.
Not one atom went
uncomforted
in worlds that
are yours,
but beyond your
knowing.

It would seem to be that the waking personality could learn much from his sleeping counterpart, and this is indeed the case. Theoretically speaking, and in theory only, anything that a personality can do or achieve in the sleeping state, he can do and achieve in the waking state. [...]

However the limitations can be diminished, and the waking personality can avail himself of many characteristics shown by the sleeping self.

The sleeping personality is as close to the inner self as you will come in this existence, for here the personality is soon free of the camouflage concerns with which it must be involved in the waking condition.

In the sleeping state we see the personality as it is in operation. [...]

(Jane is still being bothered considerably in her arms, legs, knees, back, etc., especially at night when she tries to sleep. [...] I’ve been letting her sleep in the mornings, which seems to be the most peaceful resting times for her. [...]

[...] As a rule when you are awake you do not know your sleeping self; you know your neighbors far better, so your sleeping self appears mysterious indeed. [...]

In your sleep you may have greeted friends who are strangers to your waking self. [...] The sleeping self is your identity.

[...] While sleeping in your present time, you may have a dream that concerns your personal past, while the dream is concerned with events that you know to have occurred many years ago. [...]

[...] We shall indeed have you, Joseph and Ruburt, working in your sleep, as Ruburt earlier remarked, and you shall be glad of it. [...]

[...] It never sleeps or rests. You can discover the miracle-working power of the subconscious by plainly stating to your subconscious mind, prior to sleep, that you wish a certain specific thing accomplished. [...]

(It never sleeps or rests. You can discover the miracle-working power of the subconscious by plainly stating to your subconscious mind, prior to sleep, that you wish a specific thing accomplished. [...]

When the physical self sleeps the astral image may indeed wander. [...] Its telepathic and clairvoyant abilities are not hampered in any way by the ego when that self sleeps. In waking hours the communications system is more or less closed on the ego’s side, but in sleep the barriers are lifted and knowledge from the inner self has a freer flow.

I have told you that dreams are a continuing process, whether or not the ego wakes or sleeps, and whether or not it has, or retains, any knowledge of the dreaming. So also the astral self journeys often, whether the ego wakes or sleeps.

Obviously then so-called astral projection occurs frequently in the sleeping state. [...]