“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Again, when you are in a state that is not the normal waking one, when you have forsaken this daily self, you are nevertheless conscious and alert. You merely block out the memory from the normal waking ego. [...]

Throughout the ages some have recognized the fact that there is self-consciousness and purpose in certain dream and sleep states, and have maintained, even in waking life, the sense of continuity of this inner self. [...]

[...] What I have called the predream state here is actually one in which you are always immersed whether you are waking or sleeping, or whether in your terms you are alive or dead. [...]

[...] The dreams themselves are further processed so that they become a fabric for recognizable waking events.

[...] The final trigger for that actualization may come from the waking or dream states, but it will represent the final factor needed — the quickening of inspiration, desire, or purpose — that will suddenly activate the initial psychological organization as a physical occurrence.

Time to your dreaming self is much like ‘time’ to your waking inner self. The time concept in dreams may seem far different than your conception of time in the waking state when you have your eyes on the clock and are concerned with getting to some destination by, say, 12:15. But it is not so different from time in the waking state when you are sitting alone with your thoughts. Then, I am sure, you will see the similarity between this alone sort of inner psychological time, experienced often in waking hours, and the sense of time experienced often in a dream. [...]

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

These dreams make little impression upon the waking consciousness unless you train it and take it with you as far as it can go. [...]

It will indeed translate the data into terms that it can understand, but without such translation the normal waking consciousness might have no record of it at all. [...]

[...] Here the rigid assumptions of normal waking consciousness often fade, and you can find yourself performing those physically rejected activities, never realizing that you have peered into a probable existence of your own.

[...] Beginning with an act of imagination in the waking state, you can sometimes follow for a short way into the “road not taken.”

[...] The time concept in dreams may seem far different than your conception of time in the waking state, when you have your eyes on a clock and are concerned with getting to some destination by, say, 12:15. But it is not so different from time in the waking state when you are sitting alone in a room with your thoughts, and with no particular need to get anywhere.

You will I am sure see the similarity now between this inner, alone sort of psychological time, experienced very often in waking hours, and the sense of time experienced in dreams. This is meant to show you but one more point of similarity between the waking and sleeping selves. [...]

[...] He creates when he dreams in a truer and less distorted fashion, and his physical world is much more the product of his dreaming self than it is of his waking state.

[...] It is perfectly within your present capabilities to understand that time, to your dreaming self, is very much like time to your waking inner self. [...]

[...] In waking reality, beliefs take time before their materialization is apparent. [...]

[...] there was a lot on this; I’d half wake up, very sore; half crying.... [...]

[...] Your dreams appear as illusion to your normal waking self. Shall I tell you how your normal waking experiences appear to your dreaming self? [...]

[...] I am telling you that the origin and ability and power and identity has its origins deep within the personality, and that these origins have little to do with the waking self of which you are all so familiar.

[...] The creative individual has more vivid dream experiences and more vivid waking experiences than other individuals. [...]

A large variety of dreams are the memories of this nonphysical existence that constantly occurs, though in waking life you are seldom aware of them. [...]

[...] This noninterval however creates its own interval points that you also explore, in your dreams and waking projections that escape your ordinary consciousness.

[...] We will deal with dream projections in detail, and then we shall discuss conscious projections literally from the waking state. [...]

[...] Now, as I told you, you have experiences in the dream state and in the waking state of which you are not even physically aware. [...] There are other ways of obtaining clues in psychological time, for example, but if I were you, I would be much more curious about what I do in my dreams for you can utilize these abilities in the waking state. [...]

[...] You construct dreams whether you wake or you sleep. [...]

[...] In the dream universe you are however free, and familiar, with both space and time in a manner which is denied you in the waking state. [...]

[...] And your experience within the dream universe is as vivid and as valid and as real, in every respect, as your waking experience.

Nor are you indeed fully conscious, in your terms, even in your waking state.

You have hypnotized yourselves so that it seems to you that there are great divisions between your waking and your sleeping experience. [...]

[...] These will include both waking and dreaming events. If you remember having certain dream experiences and waking refreshed, then before sleep consciously think about those dreams and tell yourself they will return.

[...] The great interconnections between waking and dreaming experience then escape you. [...]

[...] You may say that in sleeping you focus your energies to form a different reality than the reality of waking physical matter.

[...] At that time the experience is felt to be real, and some dreams indeed are more vivid than waking experience. [...]

[...] There [are] therefore possible bursts of developments, that have matured within perspectives that are not bound up in time, and that would appear spontaneous to the waking self.

Psychic action is being directed in a way not possible in the ordinary waking condition. [...]

You see, in the waking state you direct your energy into the manipulation and construction of objects.

[...] In many cases dream experiences, as I have mentioned, are much more vivid and intense than waking experience. [...]

[...] As you will see later in this book, you exercise your own inner senses, and multidimensional abilities, more frequently than it might seem, in other states of consciousness than the normal, waking one.

[...] There is a reason for such a trance, as you will discover, but little by little you must wake up. [...]

Now: In the dream state your specialized focus need not be as precise or time-oriented as in the waking state.

Now (quietly): In the waking state you would find such an experience highly threatening without some suitable preparation — and I must be very cautious in my treatment of your concepts of the self and your ideas of one-personhood.⁴

“Upon waking, I can remember clearly but three of these dreams, yet the feeling of containing experiences simultaneously in this manner stays with me …”

[...] The men aboard the train in the dream were Air Corps men I knew in waking life, and they were sent there [within the month].”

[...] Sometimes at night I wake up when she’s sitting up, and rub her, which seems to help, but her ill feelings often return.