Gradually you can change events ...

[inavalan]

"[... 11 paragraphs ...]

Now: You are coming along again. The instance you mentioned, about the bare ground, became a learning experience, because you are beginning to understand the processes involved. Gradually you can change events that once led to "negative behavior" so that they then stand for small graduation exercises, and you are in the process of doing so.

[... 10 paragraphs ...]"

—TPS5 Session 898 (Deleted Portion) January 30, 1980

[inavalan]

In dreams you can recognize yourself even though the usual space and time references may be quite different than the ones with which you are familiar in the waking state.

You might find yourself in a completely different body, or in a different time, or of course in a different perspective of relationships—but you are your own reference point. That sense of identity follows you in any and all realities. All particles will try to combine with each other in as many different probable ways as possible . You can call that a scientific law if you prefer.

The same applies to all "psychological" particles, to units of consciousness, and to their affiliations within personality. If you were your father's son, you were somewhere your father's daughter, and it was at that point of reference that you encountered the dream situation.

...

Do you have questions?

("Just one, about the dream. In it, my father and I were about the same age.")

I referred to that, I thought, in my preliminary statement about time references—that you recognize yourself in a dream even if the other references do not agree with known reality. There is no contradiction in a dream if you and your father are approximately the same age, for example. From my understanding of it, there was no other significance to the age orientation, except that the two of you were adults, and thus would have had a long shared background behind you.

("Okay." I'd wanted Seth to say something more specific about my being the same age [as a woman] as my father in the dream.)

End of session—

From this exchange, I think that Rob was looking too literal at his dreams, and even at their interpretations. Dreams, as events and situations in our awake state too, have multi-layered symbolism, to be interpreted according to one's level of development, by himself intuitively, or with the help of his inner guide.