Session 530
the waking self of which you are so proud 
“At a very simple level, for example, your consciousness leaves your body often in the
sleep state. You communicate with people in other levels of reality that you have known,
but far beyond this, you creatively maintain and revitalize your physical image. You
process daily experience, project it into what you think of as the future, choose from an
infinity of probable events those you will make physical, and begin the mental and
psychic processes that will bring them into the world of substance.
At the same time, you make this information available to all these other portions of
your identity, who dwell in entirely different realities, and you receive from them
comparable information. You do not lose contact with your ordinary waking self. You
simply do not focus upon it. You turn your attention away. In the daytime you simply
reverse the process. If you were looking at your daily normal self from the other view-
point, you see, using an analogy here, you might find that physically waking self as
strange as you now find the sleeping self. The analogy will not hold however, simply
because this sleeping self of yours is far more knowledgeable than the waking self of
which you are so proud. “