Conscious Sleep

[inavalan]

"You are tapping the energy of your being, the inner self, with which you have not been familiar. You are picking up information, often of which you conscious self is not aware. But it is part of your own heritage, a part of your being. And it is a first step and a good step. It is an unfolding. And if you were more natural about it, it would come more easily. It is as natural to you as the air.

Now, you have all been changing your relationships, not only because of what has gone on in class physically, but because of what you have been doing in the dream states. And as you know, in another layer of reality, this is the dream state, and in that level of reality I am telling you to remember your dreams, and I have already told you that this evening you will have a class dream session, and this is it. And in this level of reality, I am telling you that you will have a class dream session this evening, and in that other level of reality, you will remember. If you did not insist upon setting up so many divisions, you could see far more clearly. I ask you to do things  (to Gert) in a minute I will be with you—all of you, and some of you do these things and some do not.

Now, if for a week, you looked at your present physical daily reality and your sleeping reality as not two separate existences but one, then they can merge in a most dramatic way. When I say this, you are bound to interpret my statement to mean that daily waking reality may become dreamy, or blurred or indistinct. But this is not what will occur. Both realities are your own, and the sense of division need not exist.

As you all know, you can become as conscious sleeping, and you do, as you are in the normal state, or now when you listen to me. But, if you go to bed this week each night with the idea that you are not sleeping in the terms in which you usually accept that term, but you are instead changing the focus of your consciousness and that you will be as much awake and consciousness, then you will become aware of what you do consciously when you sleep. And you can all  (to Sheila), all  succeed to some extent or another in this experiment, and anything you learn or remember, or take back with you, will be more than worth your while. I cannot impress upon you too deeply the validity of both these existences, that you consider dual.

Feel, now, your own consciousness. Look about you and see what you perceive. Listen to what you hear. Now, I tell you that in another reality you are presently sleeping, in your terms, and yet how conscious and aware you are.

Now, when you go to sleep this evening, in your terms, you are every bit as much this conscious and aware. Your consciousness is not inhibited, it is not blurred. You have simply hypnotized yourselves into the concept of unconsciousness. Now, there is no such things as unconsciousness. You simply turn your conscious feelings and perceptions and abilities into different directions. You have a consciousness, and you use it in a multitudinous fashion. In this reality you only accept it as valid when it is directed toward physical matter and perception. But through understanding, you can direct it elsewhere and become aware of this.

Now, I would like you to do this for the week, seriously and on your own. Make the effort. It is within each of your abilities to do this."
—ECS4 ESP Class Session, November 16, 1971

[Deb]

Thanks for this. Over the past few months my dreams have been somehow different and I feel like this is heading somewhere—and it's accelerating. Sometimes I'm simultaneously aware of my waking state and dream state like there is some melding of the two. I also wake up from a dream and then am able to return to the same dream and pick up where I left off, sometimes more than once. This quote seems to fit in with that.

This has been enjoyable for me. Hopefully I'll be able to get back into more lucid dreaming too, I had a lot of fun with that.

[inavalan]

Thanks for this. Over the past few months my dreams have been somehow different and I feel like this is heading somewhere—and it's accelerating. Sometimes I'm simultaneously aware of my waking state and dream state like there is some melding of the two. I also wake up from a dream and then am able to return to the same dream and pick up where I left off, sometimes more than once. This quote seems to fit in with that.

This has been enjoyable for me. Hopefully I'll be able to get back into more lucid dreaming too, I had a lot of fun with that.

I think this is about the dreamless sleep. It is what is also called Yoga Nidra, or Chetan Nidra.

Regarding dreams ... I keep a dream journal and regularly interpret my dreams. I might've written about that somewhere recently. Dreams are lessons and / or tests of what we are supposed to have learned already. Practically all dreams (as awake events too) contain multi-layered symbolism. My inner-guide ("teacher") helps with dream interpretation, and he has his hand into the content of the dreams I have.

[strangerthings]

When I was in the Seth class by Rick we did an exercise affirmation / incubation. While falling asleep you say this:

"I am awake when I sleep."

Sooo just keep doing that until it happens.

Lol mind blowing

[inavalan]

Has

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Now, I would like you to do this for the week, seriously and on your own. Make the effort. It is within each of your abilities to do this."
—ECS4 ESP Class Session, November 16, 1971

Has anybody tried this? I did. Eventually, I had a very intense experience, almost mind-blowing. It was the first time I experienced conceptual thinking; psychically overwhelming , and almost indescribable. I also experienced the gradual distillation of it into an understandable dream, that I could interpret, receiving a symbolic guidance.

[Deb]

No. Maybe some day. My days are so full that by bed time all I want to do is pass out and not think.

[inavalan]

This sounds interesting too:

True Dreams' Induction, "Higher Psychical Development (yoga) by Hereward Carrington

Hereward Carrington was a quite interesting author.

• Carrington was a germ theory denialist and proponent of natural hygiene.[39][40] He held a vitalist view of health and denied that energy is derived from food. Instead, he believed energy is obtained during sleep by an external, all pervading cosmic energy.[39][40]

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