“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that in dream life I’m writing a book about waking consciousness just as, with my waking consciousness, I’m writing about the reality of dreams. [...]

The locations that you visit while dreaming are as real to you then as physical locations are to you in the waking state. What you have is this: In the waking state, the whole self is focused toward physical reality, but in the dreaming state, it is focused in a different dimension. [...]

[...] Then my physical environment does not concern me, and my normal waking life is the dream.

[...] Through later experiments, we discovered that we could bring our normal waking consciousness into the dream state and “come awake” while dreaming. [...]

As mentioned in Seth Speaks, my earlier book, great distinctions are made between your waking and sleeping states. [...] Some of you will be able to do so, however, and those of you who are really interested in this endeavor can at least achieve some variation, on occasion, that will allow you to connect your sleeping and waking activities with far greater effectiveness.

All of this is also connected with your beliefs about the waking and dreaming states, white being acquainted with the day, and black with the dreaming condition. [...]

[...] The conscious mind is better able to remember and assimilate its dreaming experience, and in dreams the self can use its waking experience more efficiently.

[...] Rather often, too, Jane will break up her nighttime sleep period by spontaneously waking and getting up for an hour or so.)

[...] In waking life you meet the completed event, so to speak. You encounter events in the arena of waking consciousness. [...]

[...] You choose from those experiences certain ones as events in normal waking reality.

Now, before we plunge into the nature and characteristics of dream reality, let us briefly consider the relationship between emotions, space, and distance as they occur within the waking conditions.

[...] The immediate emotion of any moment, therefore, forms the framework of your present time within the waking state. [...]

[...] Time as you know it, waking time, is intimately connected with the emotions and with emotional intensities. [...]

[...] Within the dreaming state however inner experience is not limited as it is in the waking condition, so that the time barrier can be largely dispensed with. [...]

Again, from the waking standpoint these other neurological recognitions could be thought of as ghost or trace methods of perception. Waking, you do not usually use them. [...]

Give us a moment … The dream world is as organized as your own, but from the waking state you do not focus upon that inner organization. [...] They are built up from particles, invisible only from the waking situation.

[...] From your point of view these are alternate passageways, but in the dream state they allow you to perceive as physical matter objects that in the waking state would not be observable.

Your dream adventures, however exciting, remain “invisible” from your waking standpoint. [...]

Usually the dream state is considered from a negative standpoint, and compared unfavorably with waking reality. Emphasis is laid upon those conditions present in the waking condition, and absent in the dream state.

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.

[...] With this in mind, consider once more the various aspects of the self in the waking and the dream states. [...] Indeed, the dreaming “I” seems more familiar with the waking self upon many occasions. [...]

It should be obvious that there is nothing strange in the fact that the dreaming self and the waking self appear so unfamiliar to each other. [...]

[...] These effects, these various seemingly separate selves that can be demonstrated through hypnosis, operate continually and quite normally in both the waking and the dream states. [...]

We have seen therefore that suggestions may be given by the waking personality to the sleeping personality, and these directions will be followed. [...]

[...] Starting with the ego or waking consciousness as the outer self focused toward exterior reality, these states are broad, more like plains to be explored. [...]

As your ordinary waking state perceives an entire universe of physical data, so each of these other states of consciousness perceive realities as complicated, varied, and vivid. [...]

Now: The information received in any of these states of consciousness must be interpreted for the normal waking consciousness, if any physical memory is to be maintained.

In many cases memory remains unconscious as far as waking self is concerned, but the experiences themselves can completely change the structure of an individual life. [...]

Your own projection attempts can be achieved now in the dream state, for you can take advantage of the time that you do not have in waking existence. A few such deliberate experiments, suggested before sleep, will give you the confidence you need to carry through on a waking projection. [...]

[...] There are at least three different kinds of projections that you should experience in the dream state, that will facilitate waking experiences. [...]

[...] If you have little memory of your dream locations while you are in the waking state, then remember you have as little memory of waking locations when you are in the dream state. [...]

The locations that you visit while dreaming are as real to you then as physical locations are to you in your waking state.

In the waking state the whole self is focused toward physical reality. [...]

[...] They exist composed of the very atoms and molecules that in the waking state you perceive as bed and chest and chair.

[...] Besides the associates and friends that you know in your daily waking life, you also have a quite legitimate relationship with people that you do not know as you go about your daily concerns. [...]

[...] When possible think of these persons also when you discover them so that in your daily waking life you can receive some more intuitional information as to the kind of work and endeavors in which you are all involved. [...]

I expect you to release your own energy both in the dream state and the waking state. [...]

Now you are all constrained enough in your waking state so I expect you to show some freedom in your dream state and to appreciate your freedom. [...]

Your beliefs about dreams color your memory and interpretation of them, so that at the point of waking, with magnificent psychological duplicity, you often make last-minute adjustments that bring your dreams more in line with your conscious expectations. [...]

People often program their waking memory in quite the same fashion. [...]

[...] They do not practically intrude into waking hours — the attacking bear vanishes when you open your eyes; it does not physically chase you around the bedroom.

[...] As is known, anyone deprived of sufficient dreaming will most likely begin to hallucinate while in the waking state, for too much experience has built up that needs processing. [...]

[...] Now this includes not only reincarnational material in your terms, but the realization that the personality in the dream state is actually as alert and conscious as it is in the waking state. [...] You would gain little information, and yet you are in the same position attempting to understand the nature of the dreaming state with your waking consciousness. [...]

[...] For information is given to you not only in your waking, conscious, alert daily life but in what you would call your unconscious sleep state. [...] Your dream life is continuous, only your waking ego closes out the inner stimuli and does not see it, for it must concentrate upon physical daily reality. [...]

[...] I have told you often that there are methods by which you can indeed take your waking self into the dream state and follow your own travels. [...]

[...] REM sleep or no REM sleep, your dreams exist constantly, beneath consciousness, even in the waking state. [...]

The chemical excesses built up in the waking state are automatically changed as they are drained off, into electrical energy, which also helps to form and sustain dream images. [...]

[...] You can suggest ordinary sleep, and then suggest that the subject, in his sleep and without waking, give a verbal description of his dream or dreams.

[...] They return more frequently however to periods of near wakefulness, in order to check their physical environment, since they are not as sure of it as adults are. [...]

I told you that you flashed in and out of the reality that you know.² In between one moment and the next of the waking day, there are, in your terms, long delta and theta waves that you cannot recognize. [...] Each official waking brain wave is a peak in your world of a far deeper “wave” of other experience, and represents your points of continuity.

[...] The normal waking consciousness, with its characteristic patterns, can indeed follow [into sleep]. [...]

You create them both waking and sleeping, although you are not aware of them in the waking state. [...]

The dream images however are projections sent out, so to speak, by the personality, and many astral projections occur within the dream state of which the waking personality is unaware. [...]

[...] 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.

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. [...]

A consistent, carefully recorded and extended examination of the dream state will, once more, permit you to compare those conditions and realities which show themselves in both the waking and dream states.

[...] This inner ego can also operate within the dream state, and in certain awake-seeming dreams it is the portion that realizes that the personality is not in its normal waking condition. [...]

[...] It operates in both the waking and the dream state. [...]

It is therefore the director of all activities, both in the waking and dream condition. [...]

[...] He could use his inner senses fairly frequently in his waking state, as he did momentarily during that incident.

[...] I had interpreted Seth’s material as indicating that Jane saw the apparition only while dreaming, and not in the waking state, as she has maintained all along.

(Tonight Jane said she interpreted the data to mean that she momentarily saw Seth’s apparition after waking up, before she switched to usual use of the outer senses. [...]

Some dream events are more vivid than waking ones. [...] For [upon waking] again, the focus of energy and attention is in the physical universe. [...]

[...] Imagination is waking man’s connection with the world of dreams. [...]

[...] … REM sleep or no REM sleep, your dreams exist constantly beneath consciousness, even in the waking state. [...]

[...] The chemical excesses built up in the waking state are automatically changed as they are drained off, into electrical energy which also helps to form and sustain dream images.