Dreams & Visions. Edgar Cayce

no uncertain way, are presenting emblematical conditions to the entity for its study and for its good, see?

      Reading 341-18

      The dreams come in that way and manner as we have given, and may be used in the way of the entity's development, in the entity's gaining that of how the subconscious weighs with the conscious forces of the entity, when these apply to action, and may be acted upon by the physical body.

      Reading 538-13

      The dreams as come to the body give that of the lessons that, were same applied correctly in the life of the individual, there will come the more perfect understanding, and those pleasures and joys as would be derived in living that life.

      Reading 137-24

      The dreams as we see that come to this body are those injunctions to the body of how the forces as may be applied through the entity are presented, and the entity may use same in that manner as has been given. For through these the entity may more perfectly understand those laws as pertain to the manifestations of the psychic forces in the material world. And many of these, we see, pertain to the physical conditions through which entity may see that manifestation in a physical manner, though the conditions are presented at times in emblematical form. Then study well, knowing that the entrance into same gives the more perfect way of understanding—yet must not be turned from.

      Reading 39-3

      With dreams and visions as come to individual, these are of various classes and groups, and are the emanations from the conscious, sub-conscious, or superconscious, or the combination and correlation of each, depending upon the individual and the personal development of the individual, and are to be used in the lives of such for the betterment of such individual.

      Reading 136-45

      Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [136]. This we have had here before. The dreams, the visions, the impressions as are gained in experiences through the subconscious forces, are giving to the entity those lessons, as may be applied in the physical body, the physical mind, and in the material manner, as has been outlined for the body. The lessons as are being gained by same are as the truths that come by the entity making itself in an attunement and an atonement with those universal forces, into which the body-conscious mind enters when in the somnambulistic state, or in sleep: for the subconscious force operates on.

      Use same, then, and apply same for the better conditions, the better understanding of life and life's purposes, and of those conditions through which the entity passes. For each experience applied is a development for the entity. Without an application of the experience is to act in that way that brings condemnation, or a mis-application of the advantages as may be gained by knowledge.

      Reading 5754-1

       Editor's Note: This is the first of three readings in a series on the nature of sleep.]

      GC: You will please outline clearly and comprehensively the material which should be presented to the general public in explaining just what occurs in the conscious, subconscious and spiritual forces of an entity while in the state known as sleep. Please answer the questions which will be asked regarding this:

      EC: Yes. While there has been a great deal written and spoken regarding experiences of individuals in that state called sleep, there has only recently been the attempt to control or form any definite idea of what produces conditions in the unconscious, subconscious, or subliminal or subnormal mind, by attempts to produce a character—or to determine that which produces the character—of dream as had by an individual or entity. Such experiments may determine for some minds questions respecting the claim of some psychiatrist or psycho-analyst and through such experiments refute or determine the value of such in the study of certain character of mental disturbances in individuals; yet little of this may be called true analysis of what happens to the body, either physical, mental, subconscious or spiritual, when it loses itself in such repose. To be sure, there are certain definite conditions that take place respecting the physical, the conscious, and the subconscious, as well as spiritual forces of a body.

      So, in analyzing such a state for a comprehensive understanding, all things pertaining to these various factors must be considered.

      First, we would say, sleep is a shadow of, that intermission in earth's experiences of, that state called death; for the physical consciousness becomes unaware of existent conditions, save as are determined by the attributes of the physical that partake of the attributes of the imaginative or the subconscious and unconscious forces of that same body; that is, in a normal sleep (physical standpoint we are reasoning now) the senses are on guard, as it were, so that the auditory forces are those that are the more sensitive.

      The auditory sense being of the attributes or senses that are more universal in aspect, when matter in its evolution has become aware of itself being capable of taking from that about itself to sustain itself in its present state. That is as of the lowest to the highest of animate objects or beings. From the lowest of evolution to the highest, or to man.

      So, then, we find that there are left what is ordinarily known as four other attributes that are acting independently and coordinatingly in awareness for a physical body to be conscious. These, in the state of sleep or repose, or rest, or exhaustion, or induced by any influence from the outside, have become unaware of that which is taking place about the object so resting.

      Then, there is the effect that is had upon the body as to what becomes, then, more aware to those attributes of the body that are not aware of that existent about them, or it. The organs that are of that portion known as the inactive, or not necessary for conscious movement, keep right on with their functioning—as the pulsations, the heart beat, the assimilating and excretory system, keep right on functioning; yet there are periods during such a rest when even the heart, the circulation, may be said to be at rest. What, then, is that that is not in action during such period? That known as the sense of perception as related to the physical brain. Hence it may be truly said, by the analogy of that given, that the auditory sense is sub-divided, and there is the act of hearing by feeling, the act of hearing by the sense of smell, the act of hearing by all the senses that are independent of the brain centers them-selves, but are rather of the lymph centers—or throughout the entire sympathetic system is such an accord as to be more aware, more acute, even though the body-physical and brain-physical is at repose, or unaware.

      Of what, then, does this sixth sense partake, that has to do so much with the entity's activities by those actions that may be brought about by that passing within the sense range of an entity when in repose, that may be called—in their various considerations or phases—experiences of something within that entity, as a dream—that may be either in toto to that which is to happen, is happening, or may be only presented in some form that is emblematical—to the body or those that would interpret such.

      These, then—or this, then—the sixth sense, as it may be termed for consideration here, partakes of the accompanying entity that is ever on guard before the throne of the Creator itself, and is that that may be trained or submerged, or left to its own initiative until it makes either war with the self in some manner of expression—which must show itself in a material world as in disease, or disease, or temper, or that we call the blues, or the grouches, or any form that may receive either in the waking state or in the sleep state, that has enabled