Sleeping in the afterlife

[phaseshiftR1111]

Here is something I been thinking... What do you think about sleep in the afterlife? We know we sleep here to help the physical body repair itself. We also take sleep for granted here since it's an altered state of consciousness... But I was curious. When you get over "there" can you just stop and rest and sleep like we do here? Instead of constantly going and going going going. Rest over there might be nice too. I wonder if there are places to just "rest" then wake up and continue on just like we do here.

[Volgerle]

I heard - and read - there are 'resting places'. Especially after your excarnation/transition when you had a difficult life. There might be other places to have just 'fun' or to have recreation of some way (arts, music, sports, creation activities).

However, I do not think that you "sleep" since for me sleeping is what the physical body does, not the mind. The mind or soul or consciousness never really sleeps because it would not know what it is in the first place. It has no body who needs rest and recovery because (I assume) this is the main reason for sleep. During deep sleep I believe we as mind/consciousness go away from our body and do other things, we just don't remember a lot of it.

just my 2.5 cents

[desert-rat]

I have also read that the newly dead will sleep even tho they have no need to .  I think it was a small book called the astral planes.  It old and has no isbn #
p.s. The astral world its scenes , dwelers and phenonena , by Swami Panchadasi

[CFTraveler]

It has been theorized that when 'freshly dead', the newly departed go through a period of total immersion in thethisir past life- reliving it, analyzing it and often trying to resolve things that may have been left half done before crossing over.  This may include suicides, in which the 'weight' is heavy.  It has also been theorized that this reliving and attempting to resolve the issues before moving on is akin to sleeping and dreaming- just as we dream we get our physical body ready for the next day, and get our minds and memories subconsciously dealt with, indexed and put away to create a certain 'blank slate' in which to start the day- this is considered to be a similar process to dreaming, in that it relives and restores balance, cleans up the 'slate' in order to progress to focus 27 (the dreaming might be focus 23, where the environment is self created) where the soul (spirit? discarnate? pick your favorite nomenclature) can get into perceiving their new environment and interact with other NP beings.
So it's not that it's not necessary, it's that it's another way of saying something that most people here accept as possible.