Seth's Dreams

SESSION 763: Monday, January 5, 1976 (nature of psyche)

Ruburt wondered later if I dreamed. My own usual state of consciousness is far different from yours. I do not alternate between waking and sleeping as you do. Still, I have states of consciousness that could be compared to your dream state, in that I am myself not as involved in them as am in others. If I said to you, “I control my dream state,” you might have an idea of what I mean. Yet I do not control my dreams — I fulfill them. What you could call my dreaming state is involved with the levels I spoke of that exist beneath your remembered dreams.

I said earlier that there were many kinds of knowledge. Think of them instead as states of knowledge. Perception of any of these takes a consciousness attuned to each. In my “waking” condition, I operate at many levels of consciousness at once, and deal therefore with different systems of knowledge. In my “dream” condition, or rather conditions, I form links of consciousness that combine these various systems, creatively forming them into new versions. “Waking” again, I become consciously aware of those activities, and use them to add to the dimensions of my usual state, creatively expanding my experience of reality. What I learn is transmitted automatically to others like me, and their knowledge is transmitted to me.

I think Seth underestimates the importance of explaining his experience. If we can understand how he exists, it gives us clues in the gaps between his existence and ours.

Here we can see he does not just control his dreams, he fulfills them. It is as if other levels of his consciousness are involved in "higher" levels of activity and those glimpse he receives as he "becomes awake" are used to guide his waking activity across simultaneous existence.