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Sleep and Dreaming

If for other than for recuperative reasons, culturally en masse, your society and its industries believe sleep is a waste of precious time that could be used for better things, like being a consumer of more goods and services, shopping, spending money, or working extra hours for business. I will say, however, that the most important business for all of you--no matter what your occupations, interests or professions--is sleeping. In modern culture, conscious mind functions are generally regarded as useful, productive, and civilizing of primitive savage impulses; subconscious functions are generally regarded as primitive, animalistic, barbaric, uncontrollable and dangerous, to be controlled, suppressed or feared.

If you usually experience sleep as a blackout, a serious imbalance in both priorities and overall balance is in operation. You cannot willingly utilize advanced psychic, spiritual or superior mental functions without sufficient sleep. Happiness and satisfaction, as well as contentment, are strongly associated with those processes produced in the mind and body while sleeping.

Fantasizing, daydreaming, imagination and dreaming are considered lazy, irresponsible, unproductive, and generally unnecessary for healthy adults in your society. Children are granted permission to indulge in nature's most powerful tool. Adults, however, are supposed to mature, becoming less imaginative over time until considered average, acceptable and normal, if not spiritually demoralized. The statements "The devil finds work for idle minds" and "Work is good for the soul" are typical of a society largely grown apart from the natural functions that, in fact, gave it birth.

My work is to help those who visit with me in session, or read my words, to jump to a higher level, a wider level of cognitive experience. It is not just information that is being shared. It is an experience you can reassimilate into your personality pattern and into your ego structure, which can enrich your life in ways you have not conceived.

You usually remain unconscious of the information that is consciously fed to you from "higher" beings who exist on other levels of happenstance. Usually in only the deepest, most sheltered areas of sleep is information of this nature delivered to you. But as you return to conscious awareness, you bend the information into parables and sometimes lose sight of its original intent. Many of your problems originate when information from the dream state is not transferred from the dreaming level of consciousness to the waking level of consciousness. In such cases, the information remains hung up in pockets of consciousness that we call "pre-self-conscious" levels of awareness. Solutions to many of your problems can be found in the dream condition.

The thoughts you think while awake take on new dimensions while you sleep. Your fantasies and daydreams often become dispersed without losing potency of feeling, being channeled into various levels of dream action. The various spheres of normal waking awareness introvert the makings of this waking consciousness "construct," turning it inside out. The contents being sifted are then stored and distributed among the aspects of the physical and nonphysical consciousness continuum of the individual. Personal and group education take place at the deeper, nonphysically focused areas of conjoint energy.

In the dream phases through which you pass while sleeping, the voltage levels of the hemispheres will eventually come into a syncing. In this phase, knowledge within the brain that has been kept apart, inhibiting daily realizations, is intended to be set free so it can mingle with other units of information and thus form new association patterns and structures. When this has taken place correctly, learning can be said to have occurred. If this has been unsuccessful, delayed realizations are in process and natural creativity is inhibited. The general advice to sleep on it before making a big decision is thus good advice. Otherwise, knowledge that should be conscious often remains unconscious.

The correct combination of sleep and food can do much to balance out an overactive emotionality and desperate conditions of neediness. Both conditions frustrate earnest attempts at self-development. In the future, combinations of sound and color will be used to speed healing, combat depression, and produce pleasure and relaxation.

Ventilating pent up feelings by acknowledging them and discussing them openly will often bring dreams back to the chronic nondreamer. The first sign of suppressed emotion and neurochemical depression is always a lack of remembering one's dreams. Unhealed emotional trauma may be involved. A complete lack of emotion in daily life also often points to suppression of agitation, anger and frustration.

Emotions that cannot be expressed safely in waking life are often discharged in the sleeping state. Forbidden elements of consciousness are often explored while the experiencer is dreaming. Wish fulfillment dream episodes are therapeutic, in that blocked emotional expressions or frustrated emotional charges are vented while the wish fulfillment is being acted out in dream activity, allowing some semblance of a holistic balance, or homeostasis, to return to the post-dreaming, now refreshed organism.

A symptom of being out of whack or balance spiritually is non-remembrance of dreams after waking. If you feel sleeping is a form of dying to the world in which nothing significant happens but the passage of the hours until the next sunrise or the next day hits, then you are not working or living in harmony with your larger self--that self that straddles past, present and future possibilities and moves within and participates in the individual, transpersonal, racial, global and universal consciousness which unites all living organisms in a vast web of intelligent, meaningful and significant communications transactions that literally keep your world running.