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Suggestion given before sleep will greatly add to your chances of conscious projections from the dream state. [...]

[...] It might be of benefit if you concentrate before sleep upon a simple projection that involves leaving the body, walking out into this room, for example, (the living room) or perhaps strolling around the block.

When falling off to sleep for example, imagine that you are in your yard, in another room of your apartment, or in front of the house. [...]

[...] You may for example request before sleep that you project into your own future, to see what occurs there. [...]

Suggestions made by the waking personality are also carried out by the sleeping self. The characteristics of the sleeping personality therefore partially determine the physical existence of the waking self. [...]

[...] As you have already supposed Joseph, suggestions received during the sleeping state are often carried out by the waking personality.

The energy used in constructing dreams is every bit as intense as the energy used in the waking state, but there is no depletion because the sleeping self uses energy more naturally, realizing that it is available, and being more free in its operation.

This is one of the reasons why health suggestions given immediately before sleep are so effective. [...]

During class, my jaw started to bother me, then badly, so I couldn’t get to sleep. [...] Hypnotism got me to sleep. [...]

[...] A few such deliberate experiments, suggested before sleep, will give you the confidence you need to carry through on a waking projection. [...]

[...] You should give yourself projection suggestions now as a matter of course before sleep.

[...] You have sleep to consider of course, but this method is the best one of all.

[...] For material on the classes held at after-death training centers, see in particular the 537th session in Chapter 9. While out of body during the sleep state, some people from our reality, Jane among them, assist those who have just died in adjusting to their various new environments. And from Seth in the 536th session: “… I had spent many lifetimes acting as [such] a guide under the tutorship of another in my daily sleep states.”

[...] In the sleep state you are in a connective area, where bleed-throughs occur.

Give us a moment, and rest your hand … A practitioner of this ancient art learns first of all how to become conscious in normal terms, while in the sleep state. [...]

[...] I will say good evening to you now, but I will continue what I have to say when you go to sleep this evening. [...] If you will not listen to me when you are awake because it is too late, then I shall be like a recording machine so that you learn while you sleep. [...] Joking aside, I will speak to those now here this evening while you sleep, and you may ask me what questions you have. [...]

The gods do lie sleeping in the grasses but their sleep is a very active sleep indeed, and their dreams have more vitality than you have ever imagined. [...]

[...] They are sleeping within you in this reality, but in those realities you are sleeping within them as latent potential. [...]

[...] Much later there will be other suggestions for you, in which you will direct your sleeping self to perform various activities in sleep, visit certain locations, bring back information and so forth. [...]

[...] Obviously because of your schedule you cannot at this time embark upon any rigorous experimentations in this respect, for your sleep would sadly suffer.

For it is the dream we are after, the dream experience itself in all the vividness that we can capture, and if you are going to get a watered-down version in any case, then you might as well continue with your present method of dream recording, and not lose any sleep.

[...] Your sleeping hours are already productive. [...]

[...] She should give herself suggestions before sleep that she not sleep on her left side, but her right side instead. [...] Peggy said she didn’t think she slept on her left side; Seth said she did after going to sleep, and that suggestion would prevent this. [...]

[...] In the last few days the discomfort has moved down into her left arm; periodically she said the arm tingles, in a sensation similar to that felt when a limb has gone to sleep. [...]

[...] It seems highly impractical in that system of belief to tell an individual that he or she knows the best patterns of behavior to follow, to suggest that each person knows how much sleep he or she needs, or that left alone you will pick a correct diet—a diet geared to you. Instead it seems that there must be an overall diet suited for human beings in general, or a sleep pattern best for the race at large.

Ruburt may waken in the night, feeling fairly alert, physically rested, yet his programming says that you should sleep. It seems morally wrong—not so much to work at night as to sleep till noon (as Jane did today; although she hadn’t worked last night). [...]

[...] In your sleep you will correlate recent developments so that better use will be made of them. Your activities in the sleep state will actually be rather ambitious, and you will generate considerable energy from them. [...]

[...] In your sleeping hours you will learn much this evening. [...]

(9:42 P.M. Seth’s references to my facial changes while sleeping touched upon a subject Jane and I had meant to ask him about several times; she’d referred to it again today. [...] She’d noticed my expression as I lay sleeping on my back: “One of bliss, almost, though I don’t like the word, and it’s not the right one anyhow,” she told me the next morning. “But I’ve seen you sleeping before, and I knew the difference.

[...] He’d also agreed that she could forget the sleeping pill at night before sleep, and stick to just aspirin — a definite improvement. [...]

(9:13.) A child may think “We will go to sleep now”—meaning quite happily that (pause) its own single consciousness also participates in the conscious life and activities of everything else in its environment, so it and the creatures of the night, say, sleep together, and waken together to greet the dawn. [...]

[...] and healing can be accelerated during sleep. [...]

[...] If an experience is a part of the waking state, but not a part of the sleeping state, if it is part of the sleeping state but not a part of the waking state, then it is not a primary experience.

[...] If it were a primary reality, you would not escape from it even in the sleeping state. [...]

Incidentally, if it is not now known by your scientists, it will be shortly discovered that the physical organism does not age in sleep at the same rate at which it ages in the waking state. [...]

[...] How real are the places we seem to visit while we sleep? [...] You assume yourselves to be unconscious when you sleep. [...]

[...] I thought of waking Rob to tell him, but decided not to interrupt his sleep.

Now that I was safe I was more than a little ashamed of myself for being such a coward, but I wasn’t so complacent that I felt like going right back to sleep, either! [...]

[...] If I may indulge in a fantasy, theoretically you could imagine a massive experiment in dream therapy where wars were fought by sleeping, not waking, nations.”

He should imagine himself, before he sleeps, indulging joyfully in the next day’s activities, and should not concentrate on his symptoms, even if it is to wish they disappear. [...]

[...] As he goes to sleep this evening, have him try imagining a scene in springtime, with him walking briskly or running. [...]

[...] Now I will do this evening what I can do for Ruburt while he sleeps, by way of redirecting his inner energies while he dreams. [...]

[...] If you let yourself drift off into sleep here, you would most probably manufacture two or three dreams that symbolized the fear, dreams in which you consider and try out possible solutions within the dream context. [...]

[...] In the following deep protected areas of sleep, the higher centers of the inner self are allowed to function and come to the aid of the three-dimensionally oriented portion of the personality. [...]

[...] In the most important dream work, done in the deep protected sleep periods, the symbols are powerful enough and yet condensed enough so that they can be broken down, used in a series of seemingly unrelated dreams as connectives, retain their original strength and still appear in different guises, becoming in each succeeding dream layer more and more specific.

[...] Yet man still sleeps and dreams, and that state is still a firm connective with his own origins, and with the origins of the universe as he knows it as well.

[...] The body learned to heal itself in sleep in its dreams—and at certain levels in that state even now each portion of consciousness contributes to the health and stability of all other portions. [...]

“Now: It is easy to live—so easy that although you live, rest, create, respond, feel, touch, see, sleep, and wake, you do not really have to try to do any of those things. [...]