“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Then she goes back on her back to sleep until 1:30 or 2:00 AM—it varies a lot. [...] Then when she goes back on her back again to sleep, she’s in position for breakfast. [...]

The action performed within the dream; the location; the lack of specific location; the time in which the dream appears to occur; the apparent movements through time within any given dream; the emotional content; the surface psychological content; the work done within the dream; the familiar persons spoken to; the unfamiliar persons spoken to; the relation of the dream to past events and to events immediately preceding sleep; the dream events in relation to future events; messages that are given or sent in sleep.

I mentioned earlier that with training you can do this in your sleep. [...]

[...] Once a week to begin with, you will suggest before sleeping that you send a particular message, which you have written down, to another person whose name is also given on the piece of paper, that is of course dated.

How dead is sleeping consciousness, and where do you travel when you sleep? [...]

You are, in some respects, more awake when you sleep than you are when you sit in your classroom and listen to my voice. [...]

[...] Yet surely you are wide awake when you brush your teeth, and when you dream surely you will say you are sleeping and your consciousness is dead.

[...] Now imagine that our individual from his reverie falls either into a trance state or into a deep sleep. [...]

Now these efforts go on whether you wake or sleep. [...]

[...] Now there was a time, speaking in your terms, before the making of symbols; a time so divorced from your idea of reality that only in the most protected areas of sleep does any memory of it ever return. [...]

[...] It is not difficult, however, to be aware of yourself in this stage through giving yourself proper suggestions before sleep. [...]

[...] It often becomes available in sleep states. [...]

[...] It is most usually encountered either in a protected deep level of sleep or in a sudden spontaneous trance state. [...]

[...] When you are sleeping, therefore, your consciousness turns itself in many of these directions, often perceiving, willy-nilly, bits and pieces of reality that are available to it at its different stages. [...]

When you are proficient you will not be swept willy-nilly into other stages of consciousness as you sleep, but will be able to understand and direct these activities. [...]

(Jane’s delivery was now getting lighter and slower, almost as though she was drifting off to sleep.)

He feared his mother prowled the house during darkness—this also accounting for some of the sleep difficulty.

Last night’s poor sleep and symptoms were simply a reaction to the information given (in last night’s session), and represented a momentary (underlined) stiffening of position by both sides of the personality. [...]

[...] In certain portions of sleep, your experience reaches into areas of being so vast that the dream is used to translate it for you.

A spoken language is, again, dependent upon all other languages that could possibly be spoken, and thus its sounds rise into prominence and order because of the silences and pauses between them; so your waking consciousness is dependent upon what you think of as sleeping or dreaming consciousness. [...]

[...] Men went to sleep to do their work, in other words, and the realm of dreams was considered more real than waking reality. [...]

Some night as you fall to sleep, try telling yourself that you will pretend you are awake while you sleep.

[...] Are you afraid of sleep? [...]

[...] Try to imagine that you are awake when you sleep. [...]

If you are awakened for any reason during the night, the chances for a conscious projection on your return to sleep are somewhat higher than they would have been had your sleep not been interrupted.

[...] I should also note that if coffee does not prevent or inhibit sleep, it will stimulate dream projections, and also aid you in bringing the critical faculties into the dream state. [...]

[...] Initially these will be nighttime experiences, conducted during sleep. [...]

[...] Ruburt already knows how to leave the body, using several methods from the sleep state and immediately before it.

(To me:) Before you sleep, simply imagine your open dreambook in the morning, with the dreams recorded. [...]

[...] (Also I’d lately seen a show on Jack the Ripper and I think the women were so convinced of their “evil” ways at those levels that they broadcast their need for punishment.) Finally awaken—sleep off and on but sore. [...]

Sleeping with your heads to the north is excellent, on your plane only. [...] Not only do you have lack of privacy, one of Ruburt’s squawks, and not only should various biological functions be separated on your plane as I have suggested, but the room itself, while excellent for some purposes involving use of the intellect, is simply not good for sleeping.

The back room is the best for sleeping. [...] The small room will do as a sleeping room, but the head of the bed should be at the north. [...]

(“Is there anything to the idea of sleeping with your head to the north?”)

When Ruburt has such dreams, his muscles and joints react in sleep, mimicking normal actions—and he well might be sorer than usual upon awakening, because in sleep, at such times, now, without the weight of his body, standing and so forth, the muscles and joints will make motions of a releasing nature quite painlessly in the dream state. [...]

[...] Yet the old man does sleep in a gigantic shoe that is also like a cradle, from which he and all of civilization continue to emerge. [...]

[...] You can also give yourselves such suggestions before you sleep. [...]

[...] You sleep more deeply as a rule than Ruburt, hence you must be sure to give yourself the suggestion to awaken and remember. [...]

[...] Proper suggestion before sleep can doubly work to your advantage then, for you are holding your ground in two worlds at once.

When you sleep longer than 7 hours in particular, his muscles protest, and this causes much of the morning difficulty. He ignores the message, and sleeps, muttering in protest at the discomfort, and then it takes him another hour or so after breakfast, simply because he did not move the body when it was ready to move.

Healthy bodies do not need 8 hours sleep, and after 6-and-a-half hours many become quite restless. [...]

In sleep, you do inhabit other planes, as I have told you. [...]

(This refers to an experience on falling to sleep during which I saw a woman clearly. [...]

[...] I couldn’t describe the expression, but it reminded me of the internal “vision” I’d had this afternoon when I lay down to sleep: I found myself looking at a very old, very probable future manifestation of myself in this life, who rested quietly in bed. [...]

In your sleep, however, your consciousness slips out of your body and returns to it frequently. [...]

Before you go to sleep, tell yourself that you will mentally take a dream snapshot⁷ of the most significant dream of the night. [...]

[...] If you perform this exercise often, however, many of you will find yourselves able to use the camera consciously even while sleeping, so that it becomes an element of your dream travels; you will be able to bring more and more pictures back with you.

[...] The cigarette event was bad news, I saw at once, let alone Jane’s sleeping after stating that she wanted the session. I stood watching her sleeping while the cigarette burned down toward her fingers. [...]

(I hurried to type the Seth portion of the session so that Jane could read it this evening—Wednesday—but from my writing room I can hear her snoring as she sleeps on the couch in the living room. [...]

[...] I was about to leave Jane sleeping for the evening when she woke up. [...]

[...] Let me hasten to tell you that all such ability is not necessarily conscious, and that much of it takes place during the sleep state when you are simply not aware of it.

[...] This is the same kind of form in which you travel in out-of-body projections, and again let me remind my readers that each of them leaves the body for some time each night during sleep.

[...] I am afraid I would put my friend to sleep over here. [...]

[...] When I looked in on Jane at 10:30, thinking she’d want to get up, I found instead that she was sleeping heavily, with her knees and legs relaxed and “dumped” to her left in a more relaxed position than usual. [...]

[...] I feel that my sleep with the pillow, and my later reactions of soreness, mean that I’ve touched upon, again, those areas I’d forsaken for some time, and shoved away or whatever, and that the release of tension itself was bound to be somewhat explosive, I suppose. [...]