“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Just before you sleep, see yourself as you are, but living in a past or future century — or simply pretend that you were born 10 or 20 years earlier or later. [...]

[...] As you fall to sleep, imagine that you are in the same place, exactly in the same spot, but at some point in the distant past or future. [...]

[...] Before sleep, then, imagine your consciousness traveling down a road, or across the world — whatever you want. [...]

Someone in this household walked in their sleep, and opened the door. [...] Since we are with friends, I will tell you that he remembered his womanly modesty even in his sleep, and he once more donned the clothes that he donned earlier, you see, when he let the cat in.

[...] He wanted to sleep. [...]

(I fell back to sleep at once after seeing Jane return to bed at 1 AM. [...]

[...] The cat promptly fell into a stuporous sleep, that lasted all day.

(Jane was particularly “out of it” for most of yesterday, after sleeping well past 9 AM. [...]

(As I wrote these notes Jane kept leaning to her left in her chair and lapsing into sleep. [...]

[...] In your sleep you do indeed travel, again, those vast distances between birth and death. [...]

[...] In sleep your consciousness fluctuates between ranges of intensities, literally flowing into and out of the physical-matter grouping, and forming from more plastic “pre-matter” (with a hyphen) stages, the final shape that matter will take in your world. [...]

Sleep great rest of night till near morning when I believe I had a session last night for the couple who visited and I am aware of some feelings about the sessions that have angered me since the beginning. [...]

[...] Then sometime later I realized I’d been very comfortable, sleeping great, but was now getting sore again—hips in particular, and arms. [...]

In any case, again my congratulations to you, Joseph, upon the two counts I mentioned, and I would suggest that you both get a good night’s sleep. [...]

[...] Sleep tight, but again I do look forward to our sessions, and dislike saying good-bye so soon.

[...] Although my body lay sleeping beside Jane in the bedroom “behind” me, I wasn’t concerned about it. [...]

(It happened that I lay sleeping flat on my back with my arms down at my sides. [...]

Projections occur of course in the sleep state constantly, whether or not they are remembered. [...]

I was not trying to reach Ruburt in her sleep. [...] In any case, the inner senses were wide open as she went to sleep. [...]

[...] The part of himself that did ‘teach’ him to see still guides his movements, still moves the muscles of his eyes, still becomes conscious despite him when he sleeps, still breathes for him without thanks or recognition and still carries on his task of transforming energy from an inner reality into an outer one. [...]

While I sleep and lie stretched out,
Eyelids closed and pupils dark,
Who walks wide-eyed downstairs
Through the door in the cold night air,
And travels where I have never been?
Who leaves clear memories in my head
Of people I have never met?
Who takes these trips while I
Never lift one inch from bed?
Who dreams?

Consciousness does not refresh itself in sleep. [...] Consciousness does not sleep then in those terms and while it may be turned off it is not like a light.

[...] In sleep when (whene) you often presume yourself to be unconscious (unconsious) you may be far more conscious than you are now, but simply using abilities of consciousness that you do not accept as real or valid (valed) in waking (waping) life. [...]

[...] It was something like coming out of a deep sleep and immediately making a strong effort to focus in physical reality.)

[...] Now I am definitely back in the bed in which I am sleeping, trying to decipher the writing on the envelopes. [...]

[...] Ruburt is working on two books of his own and must get his sleep. [...]

[...] There is one other character to be mentioned here: Willy, the cat, a beloved monster who is now sleeping.

(Willy was sleeping — snoring, actually — on top of our old-fashioned TV set. [...]

[...] Those who are living in your system of reality perform these activities in an “out-of-body” experience while the physical body sleeps. [...]

[...] When the physical body sleeps, consciousness often leaves the physical system for fairly long periods, in your terms. [...]

[...] Therefore in the sleep state, each of you have undergone — to some degree — the same kind of absence of consciousness from physical reality that you experience during death.

[...] I suggested that if she didn’t sleep well tonight she call me, and I’d help her get up. [...]

[...] The state of creativity can (underlined) be discussed as if it were (underlined) a separate state, like waking or sleeping. [...]

Ruburt has done well, following impulses, and the altered sleep patterns have indeed been beneficial; for his body, to compensate for the lack of normal steady motion, wanted the extra activity. [...]

[...] You fought a battle with yourself however over the noise issue, and this more than the lack of sleep leaves you in need, now, of that refreshment that sleep can bring.

[...] She’s fallen into a regular, very narrow pattern of eating, watching TV, and sleeping, either in her chair or in bed, night and day. [...]

[...] This will also help the balance of the thyroid, and help sleep—that is, induce it—and even improve muscular activity. [...]

(During the night Jane has also more or less settled into a routine of laying down for a couple of hours, then sitting in her chair for an equal time, and even sleeping in it, then going back to bed. [...]

At one time — in your terms — I myself acted as such a guide; as in a sleep state Ruburt now follows the same road. [...]

Before the event just mentioned, for example, I had spent many lifetimes acting as a guide under the tutorship of another in my daily sleep states.

[...] Such hallucinations as I have been speaking of, intense symbolistic encounters, can also occur in your sleep states, when the personality is at a time of great change, or when opposing ideas must be unified, or if one must give way to another. [...]

In sleep there is no need for it to be dominant, nor is there under survival conditions. In sleep other areas of the self are being trained through their own kind of experience, and psychic organizations are built up, dispensed with, and built up again in a sort of practice maneuver.

When you sleep the ego becomes unfocused, but still present, and its goals and attitudes to some extent do color dream experiences. [...]

[...] When you consider that in sleep the ego is not dominant, then it should not seem strange to you that it is not dominant after death.

[...] (Yesterday afternoon, Sunday, August 10, 1975.) In a state between usual waking or sleeping he found himself giving a session such as this one, where earlier he had only heard my words in his head.

The thing is, he does unconsciously project in such a way—particularly in the sleep state. [...]