“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I am seldom so “blacked out” as to feel as if I were sleeping. [...]

[...] The depth of this reality can, again, be compared to the depth of a sleep or a trance, or the depth of any common psychological experience.

Now, I will not keep you from your beauty sleep.

[...] Once again, Seth started enlarging upon the material Jane had written during the early morning hours of May 3, after receiving it in the sleep state. [...]

[...] I mean rest or sleep. [...]

[...] 7/11, 1:30 AM: While drowsing before going to sleep, I saw briefly a woman of about 40, who sat curled up within the left third of a rectangular white screen. [...]

For such habits operate not only in the waking state but in the sleeping state also, where the personality is even more open to suggestion. [...]

[...] Last night in bed she was very sore and uncomfortable in the head, neck, jaw and shoulder areas especially—so much so that she slept late this morning, when finally she did get to sleep after 7 AM. [...]

[...] I would compare it to a higher state of wakefulness rather than to the sleep usually associated with trance — but a different kind of wakefulness, in which the usual world seems to be the one that is sleeping. [...]

(Our young tiger cat, Billy, had been sleeping on a nearby chair. [...]

[...] I put him in the cellar, where he sleeps each night.)

The ego cannot so change its focus, but the inner ego of which we have spoken is indeed the self that dreams, and is the “I” who experiences when the ego “I” sleeps.

[...] They aren’t a nightly occurrence by any means, but I suggested she tell herself upon retiring that she wouldn’t be aware of such activity during sleeping hours. [...]

(In the first one, after lying quietly for some time, and approaching the necessary state [close to sleep yet not asleep, but unaware of my body lying on the bed], I saw myself; I was at a public swimming pool in the summertime, although I saw no one else. [...]

Deep is the sleep

[...] This may involve somewhat more than you suppose, but nevertheless you should learn to handle the sleep state well enough so that some success is achieved.

[...] And you forge such dreams in your sleep and in your private imaginings, and in your inspirations. [...]

(This morning I felt much better after an excellent sleep. [...]

[...] This was aggravated because when the mother became frightened she pleaded with the child to sleep with her.

[...] The whole week had been a very busy one for Jane and me, and we were left somewhat short of sleep.

[...] This is partially the result of old ideas, where sleep is a separate, isolated part of life, or of the personality.