What is the pyschic sleep?

So He giveth His beloved sleep.

And now the psyche sleeps for a while—for a few hours—days—or years.

This sleep, is not that of unconsciousness—

It is called so because it resembles earthly sleep greatly in this—

The sleeper is unconscious of his actual surroundings while he moves and lives in fancy in other times and states. 

The length and character of this sleep depend entirely on the state of the individual when he passed over—depend, that is, on what he was in his earthly life. 

His soul experiences during this sleep are as manifold—as different the one from the other, as he differs in himself, for no two souls are alike, and no two can have exactly the same experience—

Diversity in unity is the law of our nature. 

To some there is a reliving of the past life—a taking up of broken threads, and a weaving of them together in a more finished manner—perhaps the failings are now first seen in their true light—the clouds of self-deception caused by self-love, wilful transgression, and so on, fade away, and a soul can look back upon his past life with a clear and true vision, and when the soul thus truly sees and knows good and evil, it can but choose the good and refuse the evil. 

Others imagine that they continue their life—

Starting with all the old habits and prejudices, they gradually drop the evil, and are strengthened in the good.

Paul said—

We shall not all sleep—

There is much truth in this, for to some, it is of such a brief duration that it may be more truly called a change in a moment—in the twinkling of an eye.

Spirit-lives look upon these sleepers much as we do on very young children—

They care for us, and guard us, in much the same way. 

There is no sense of unfitness in their ignorance—

They can feel neither surprise when they awake quickly—

Nor impatience if the state is prolonged, for it is simply that their new powers are not yet adjusted to their new environment. 

They are not purposely deceived, as to their state, but even if spirit-lives should wish to tell them where and what they were, it would be as incomprehensible to them, as deep philosophy to a young child. 

Then, they need food—

Food, which is the counterpart of ours, and they need employment in such ways as most resemble the old duties. 

In these, and other ways, their past life is gently and gradually withdrawn from the prominent place in their mental horizon, which it formerly filled, and the new rises like a new day upon their clearer vision. 

In different ways, the call comes to them to awake out of their sleep, and arise from the earthly, and walk in newness of life.

But as one flower unfolds and expands differently from another, so is it with the soul.

“I AWOKE!” Conditions of Life on the other Side