stargazing. ‘Drink’ the light from the stars, absorb their energy.
This will have a strong influence on the quality of your awareness,
not only during night practice but throughout the night.
Basically, if you find it difficult to maintain vigilance during
sleep, it is due to the weakness of your astral body, and to a lack
of bridges between the astral and physical layers. Therefore,
before starting your night journey, it helps to saturate your
consciousness with an extremely sharp and refined astral energy:
that of the stars.
Every so often during night practice, and particularly when you
feel that you are going to lose consciousness, don't hesitate to call
the energy of the stars to your rescue. It can help to recall the
images of constellations that you were looking at before going to
bed. Tap from their energy.
To conclude this section: your capacity to retain a conscious
awareness during sleep depends on how much your subtle bodies
are built up. It is therefore the whole process of inner alchemy,
and not only night practice, that is needed to reach higher stages
of psychic sleep. It is wise to accept that it will take some time
and practice before you can remember all the journeys of the
night when waking up in the morning.
15.11 Taking the night at both ends
The work on psychic sleep does not only take place at the
beginning but also at the end of the night. The purpose of night
practice is to maintain waking awareness in your sleep. The
purpose of the ‘morning work’ is to remember as much as possible
of your dreams and astral journeys in your daytime consciousness.
Here are a few suggestions for working in this direction:
15.12 Morning sharing
If you sleep in the same room as a spouse/friend, tell each other
what happened during the night as soon as you wake up. Do it as
soon as possible, while still in bed and the remembrance is still
easy. You will see that you tend to remember much more if you
know you will systematically be sharing in the morning. It will
motivate your subconscious to retain more memory of the
experiences of the night.
If there are children around you, get them to tell you their
dreams as soon as you greet them in the morning.