Library » Arts & Literature » Dream-Art Science Handbook, Vol. 1 - Sleep
Compiled by Miss Blake
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Index:
- D.A.S. Quotes - Various
- D.A.S from the Sethnet Archives
- Article - More Than 8 Hours Sleep Too Much of a Good Thing
- D.A.S. Project-Dream Recall: The Camera
“It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.”
D. H. Lawrence, “Lady Chatterly’s Lover”
“The long periods of continuous waking conscious activity is to some extent at variance with your natural inclinations. It cuts you off from the spontaneous give and take of conscious and unconscious material and of itself you see necessitates certain changes that hen make your prolonged period necessary. The body is denied the frequent rest it requires. Conscious stimulus is over applied making assimilation difficult and placing a strain upon the mind body relationship.
“The division between the two aspects of experience begin to take on the characteristic of completely diverse behaviour.The unconscious becomes more and more unfamiliar to the conscious.
“Those of you who cannot practically make any alterations in sleeping habits can still obtain some benefits by changing your beleis in the areas discussed, learning to recall your dreams and resting briefly when you can and immediately afterwards, recording those impressions that you retain
“You must give up any ideas that you have as to the unsavory nature of unconscious activity. You must learn to believe in the goodness of your being. Otherwise you will lnot explore these other states of your own reality. When you trust yourself then you will trust your own dream interpretations and these will lead to great self-understanding
The Nature of Personal Reality, p. 265.
“In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.”
Thomas Wolfe
D.A.S from the Sethnet Archives: (Lucid Lurking) Somebody else’s Nightmare Message 1409
So anyway let me tell you about my dream . . . I fell asleep the other night with auto suggestions of lucid dreaming. Much later in the night, I came lucid to a scene of a bedroom that I’ve never been in. I was more lucid than I’ve ever been, but I was not in full control of the dream. For example, when I tried to fly around the room, it was like I was tethered to ceiling fan and I couldn’t leave the room.
So I decided to cooperate with who/whatever *was* in control, and I was “flown” over a cityscape to a corner where I “knew” who I was supposed to talk to.
I asked him what was going on, and he let me know that he was on his way across the street to kill someone and that he didn’t feel to good about it. It was gang motivated, and when I asked the other reasons, he seemed to get distracted. Then he walked away from the man he was about to kill and told the gang leader that he had changed his mind. A moment later, we were near a phone booth and he made a call.
After just a moment he let out a heart-piercing scream, but made no noise. The symbolism in the next part of the dream let me know that he was desperately afraid of prison life, but felt no real compuction about killing people any more than swatting a moth or a mosquito. He seemed to realize that and burst into tears. That’s when I awoke, feeling very present and well rested.
I’ve never been in someone else’s nightmare before.
It was quite a dream, and I really think I was in his dream and operating as a tool to my higher self. Spiritual intervetion counceling or some such thing. But of course, I don’t really understand when or why these things happen. I think I’m just a small part of these events, and I do what I can when I’m called on. Charmaine says I’m a wild talent. I just try to have fun and do what seems right. If I do have talent (as this dream seems to indicate), it’s certianly of the wild type! It’s frustratingly unpredicable, but I haven’t really sat down and tried to train it. I guess I’m afraid that an attempt to discipline it would limit it. Any suggestions?
Ah well, time to go home! :) I look forward to more of all of your excellent postings! Jerry.
“Death and damnation, I can dissociate from everything else but my own self; I can’t even forget myself when I am asleep.”
Soren Kierkegaard, The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard
“As mentioned great distinctions made between your waking and sleeping states. They should not be neatly divided with little effort really made to relate the two. You must alter your sleeping hours in favour of a far more beneficial split. The endeavour will allow you to connect your sleeping and waking activities with far greater effectiveness.
“An altered arrangement will work greatly to your advantage. I suggest a 6-hour sleeping block of time at one session and no more. If you still feel the need for a greater amount of rest, then a two hour at the most nap can be added.”
The Nature of Personal Reality, p. 259
More Than 8 Hours Sleep Too Much of a Good Thing
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although the dangers of too little sleep are widely known, new research suggests that people who sleep too much may also suffer the consequences.
Specifically, investigators at the University of California in San Diego found that people who clock up 9 or 10 hours each weeknight appear to have more trouble falling and staying asleep, as well as a host of other sleep problems, than people who sleep 8 hours a night.
People who slept only 7 hours each night also said they had more trouble falling asleep and feeling refreshed after a night’s sleep than 8-hour sleepers.
These findings, reported in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, demonstrate that people who want to get a good night’s rest may not need to set aside more than 8 hours a night, study author Dr. Daniel Kripke told Reuters Health.
He added that “it might be a good idea” for people who sleep more than 8 or 8 1/2 hours each night to consider reducing the amount of time they spend in bed, but cautioned that more research is needed to confirm this....
“It might be that depression is causing the long sleep, it might be that the long sleep is causing the depression,” Kripke said.
SOURCE: Psychosomatic Medicine, March/April 2004.
“In the most protected areas of sleep you are dealing with experience that is pure feeling or knowing, and disconnected from both words or images. As mentioned, these experiences are translated into dreams later, necessitating a return to areas of consciousness more familiar with physical data.”
Seth Speaks, session 570
“And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.”
D. H. Lawrence
D.A.S. from the Sethnet Archives: Lucid lurking Continued message 1428
As for your dream, here’s my quick take -- Seth mentions that we do try out probabilities in the dream state to explore the ramifications in this very plastic, thought-responsive environment. Decisions get made after these tryouts about what events we actually “insert” into Framework 1 (F1) from F2.
Coupled with this tryout, was the fellow considering the act of violence. The fact that you connected with him means that you have some sort of relationship, whether it’s a counterpart, other focus, common fragmentation -- there seems to be so many possible connections.
So the net result, is that you lent energy to this fellow to help him work through some of his issues in this area. It must feel really good to wake up with that memory!
Also the spontaneous nature of the experience validates how most all of my out-of-bodies occur -- seemingly out of left field. But all of the imagery is very individually useful. So let us know what other things develop and what inner connections you make. We’ve really just begun to discuss dreams ...
Cheers, Paul
D.A.S. Project-Dream Recall: The Camera
“Before you go to sleep, tell yourself that you will mentally take a dream snapshot of the most significant dream of the night. Tell yourself that you will even be aware of doing this while asleep, and imagine that you have a camera with you. You mentally take this into the dream state. You will use the camera at the point of your clearest perceptions, snap your picture, and—mentally again—take it back with you so that it will be the first mental picture that you see when you awaken.
“You will of course, try to snap as good a picture as possible. Varying results can be expected. Some of you will awaken with a dream picture that presents itself immediately. Others may find such a picture appearing later in the day, in the middle of ordinary activities. If you perform this exercise often, however, many of you will find yourselves able to use the camera consciously even while sleeping, so that it becomes an element of your dream travels; you will be able to bring more and more pictures back with you.
“These will be relatively meaningless, however, if you do not learn how to examine them. They are not to be simply filed away and forgotten. You should write down a description of each scene and what you remember of it, including your feelings both at the time of the dream, and later when you record it. The very effort to take this camera with you makes you more of a conscious explorer, and automatically helps you to expand your own awareness while you are in the dream state. Each picture will serve as just one small glimpse of a different kind of reality. You cannot make any valid judgement on the basis on one or two pictures alone.
“Now this is a mental camera we are using. There is a knack about being a good dream photographer, and you must learn how to operate the camera. In physical life, for example, a photographer knows that many conditions affect the picture he takes. Exterior situations then are important: You might get a very poor picture on a dark day, for instance. With our dream camera, however the conditions themselves are mental. If you are in a dark mood, for example, then your picture of inner reality might be dim, poorly outlined, or foreboding. This would not necessarily mean that the dream itself had tragic overtones, simply that it was taken in the ‘poor light’ of the psyche’s mood.
“Inner weather changes constantly, even as the exterior weather does. One dream picture with a dreary cast, therefore, is not much different from a physical photograph taken on a rainy afternoon.
“Many people, however remembering a dark dream, become frightened. You even structure your dreams, of course. For that matter, your dream world is as varied as the physical one. Each physical photographer has an idea of what he wants to capture on film, and so to that extent he structures his picture and his view. The same applies to the dream state. You have all kinds of dreams. You can take what you want, so to speak, from dream reality as basically you take what you want from waking life. For that reason, your dream snapshots will show you the kind of experience that you are choosing from inner reality.”
The “Unknown” Reality, Vol. II, Session 719
“In a fashion your own dreams operate or appear as electrons in other realities. That is, they change their form, their subjective force or direction, and become part of the working mechanics of the universe. The same applies to your own thoughts. They are not ‘wasted’ after you have thought them (with humor), or simply discarded. They do not become extinct either, but go on to serve other functions in the universe than those with which you are presently aware”
Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, Vol. II by Jane Roberts. Session 935
P.S.
“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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