When The Akashic Records Started Putting Me To Sleep

For a while, I was a little frustrated.

With my main use of the Akashic Records being the ability to connect with my guides and teachers within and learn from them, I had lately been experiencing an odd thing shortly after entering the Records.

I fell asleep. I crashed.

I immediately slipped into unconsciousness.

This may be because I am often opening the Records in the quiet of the evening, as the last thing I do before I decide to sleep. But I could barely get the Records open before I passed out. I tried fighting the heaviness of my eyelids. I'd keep a lamp on or the TV running to stay awake and focused.

No use.

What bothered me wasn't really that I kept falling asleep.

It was that, for a while, it felt as though my guides and the Keepers were not truly connecting with me anymore. When I was awake, I felt that I hadn't accomplished much in the Records, even though my energy and intuition knew differently. I wondered if I wasn't really accessing them anymore, or if something had somehow changed in the relationship we'd built.

Looking back, I realize I wasn't worried because I kept falling asleep.

I was worried because I thought the connection was supposed to look a certain way.

To understand why that felt so unsettling, it probably helps to explain what the Akashic Records are and how I work with them.

What Are the Akashic Records?

As many of you know, I spend a lot of time working within the Akashic Records. If you're newer here, the Akashic Records are a cosmic living field of consciousness that holds the wisdom of your soul, as well as all things that have existed or that carry energy.

I don't see the Records as a place to escape reality (we don't really do that over here) but as a way to meet life more fully. They offer deeper awareness, trust, and intention as you learn and move through the guidance that comes through.

The guidance is meant to be lived, not simply admired.

When I use the word work, I don't mean labor or something that has to be difficult. I mean intentionally participating with life. Intentionally practicing engagement with yourself, your healing, your relationships, and the guidance you're receiving instead of simply observing them.

That's one of the biggest reasons I continue returning to the Records. For me, they have not only been about mystical experiences or receiving information. They've also been about becoming more aware of how I'm living, how I'm choosing, and how I'm participating in my own life. If the guidance doesn't eventually become something I apply or embody, then it's simply another interesting idea.

That's also how I work with the Records in my own life and with my clients. The experiences themselves aren't the destination. They're invitations to understand yourself more deeply, heal, make different choices, and participate in your life with greater awareness.

Access, Consent, Ethics, and the Keepers

One of the things I think is important to understand about the Akashic Records is that while everyone can learn to access their own Records, reading for another person is different.

It's key to understand that you absolutely can learn to access your own Akashic Records, but to read for other people requires an understanding and practice of consent, ethics, and basic manners.

When you open the Records for someone else, you're working with the Keepers of the Records, the beings that support the field. As you respect how the Records, the knowledge, and the energy within operate, you are generally invited to go deeper into different levels of your own healing.

In basic terms, you have access, but you can go deeper when you show your character and intentions. No one wants to put a toddler behind the wheel of a Ferrari. But everyone can learn how to drive a Ferrari and be trusted with its abilities.

I haven’t experienced it as passing a test, more like building a relationship. Just as trust grows between two people over time, trust grows through your relationship with the Records, the Keepers, your guides, and your own ability to carry what you're being shown with integrity.

The more I've gone into this work, the more I've found that wisdom and responsibility grow together. As your discernment grows, (you definitely need to work on discernment for this), your respect deepens, and you learn to embody what you're receiving instead of simply collecting experiences for ego. You are then naturally invited into deeper layers of the work.

I think that's one of the reasons I love working within the Records so much. They aren't simply a place to get answers. I get to instead create a beautiful relationship that continually teaches me how to listen, how to trust, and how to become a better steward of the guidance given.

What Can You Do in the Akashic Records?

One of the things I love most about the Akashic Records is that there are endless tools, guidance, and uses for them when you're guided by the Keepers or invited to experiment.

People often ask me what you actually do in the Records, and the honest answer is that there isn't one answer. Every person, every session, and every season of life can look different because the Records tend to meet you where you are.

Sometimes the work is quiet. Sometimes it's profound. Sometimes it's simply receiving clarity about a decision you're trying to make, and other times it's the kind of bing bang boom experience I’ve talked about before. (I'll link that here if you missed it.)

The work can look like visiting other lives, soul retrievals and healings that bring you back to wholeness, or what I can only describe as cosmic surgery using new energetic technology aided by allied beings.

It can look like receiving guidance and clarity about life directions, choices, and options. It can be shadow integration, helping you understand patterns you've been carrying and gently loving them into the light.

Every person's experience is different, and not every possibility is meant for every person. The Records tend to meet you where you are, offering the guidance, healing, or perspective that is most supportive for what you're ready to explore next.

The way I personally use the Records, though, is actually much simpler.

I'm usually not looking for the biggest experience. I'm looking for understanding.

I use the Records for receiving information, both for myself and my clients, but also to explore and ask questions about my own inner mind and wiring.

Some days that looks like bringing forward questions I've been sitting with. Other days it looks like spending time with my teachers, learning from them, and allowing the conversations to unfold naturally.

I'm much more interested in understanding myself more honestly, seeing what I couldn't see before, and receiving guidance that helps me live my life with greater awareness. As humans, we have this inner desire to evolve and grow.

Over time, I've realized the experiences themselves aren't really the point. They're simply different ways the Records help us become more aware, more whole, and more intentional in how we live. Some of the biggest transformations have come through something as simple as one conversation, one question, or one new way of seeing myself that I couldn't have found on my own.

Which is exactly why what started happening next confused me so much.

When Everything Changed

With my main use of the Records being connecting with my guides and teachers within and learning from them, I had lately been experiencing an odd thing shortly after entering the Records.

I passed out like a puppy after a big meal. I immediately slipped into unconsciousness.

This may have been because I was often opening the Records before bed. But I could barely get the Records open before I passed out.

At first I thought maybe I was simply exhausted. It made sense. I was opening the Records at the end of the day, when my body was naturally winding down.

But it kept happening.

Every single time.

I was a little frustrated.

Not because I wanted to stay awake for the sake of staying awake. But because I wanted to connect.

For a while it felt as though my guides and the Keepers were not truly connecting with me. When I was awake, I felt that I hadn't accomplished much in the Records when I would go in. 

Even though my energy and intuition knew this wasn’t the case, my mind kept telling me nothing was happening.

I missed the conversations, sitting present with my guides in my lovely utopias and sacred spaces.

I started wondering if something had changed.

Did I do something wrong?

Am I too distracted by my reality? What am I missing?

Was I not able to access the Records the way I had been?

Those questions stayed with me for a while because I didn't have an answer for them.

All I knew was that I couldn't stay awake. And yet, somewhere underneath the frustration, I couldn't shake the feeling that work was still being done.

I just couldn't understand how. Then something else started happening.

I don't believe it's a coincidence that the nights I opened the Records became the nights I dreamed the most.

Not just one dream, but vividly. Multiple scenes. Often lucid and controllable. And, most importantly, I woke up remembering them.

A long time ago, I made an agreement with my guides.

I told them that if I was able to remember a dream, I would take it as something important and worth remembering.

That agreement has stayed with me ever since. It was immediate, the way they grasped the opportunity to communicate with me in that way. I was grateful and eager!

The moment I wake up, even if I'm only slightly awake in my reality, I grab my phone, open my notes, and record everything I can remember before it fades.

Sometimes it's only fragments. Sometimes I have paragraphs. Rushing to voice text them and get details out because of the amount I can remember.

Sometimes I remember conversations, places, emotions, or people I can't explain.

I've learned not to judge the dream by how strange it seems when I first wake up. What doesn't make sense immediately often explains itself later.

As the dreams became more consistent, I started noticing something.

The nights I opened the Records became the nights I remembered the most.

The dreams weren't random. They felt connected.

It wasn't just that I was dreaming more. It was that the dreams carried a different quality to them.

I would wake up with the feeling that I'd been somewhere, learned something, or participated in something I couldn't quite put into words yet.

That was the first moment I began wondering if the work I thought wasn't happening while I was awake... might actually be happening while I was asleep.

I didn't have the answer yet. But I had enough curiosity to keep paying attention.

One dream in particular stayed with me.

I woke up with this lingering feeling that there were people I was still energetically connected to, even though I had long since walked away from those relationships in my waking life.

The dream was noticeably chaotic and it was the feelings of that dream that stayed with me.

As I reviewed my notes about the dream the next day or so, I reached out to my guides to ask questions. Through this, I realized there were still intentions of those people reaching towards me and even some of my own energy that had been left behind.

The dream wasn't asking me to reconnect. It was showing me where I was still connected.

That became something I worked with consciously after I woke up. I restated boundaries and recovered what was mine.

Looking back, that dream wasn't just symbolism. It became guidance.

I asked less about, "Why am I falling asleep?" and asked more about, "What am I being shown in my dreams?"

Not because it told me exactly what to do, but because it revealed something I couldn't yet see while I was awake.

I've heard a lot about the science of dreaming. The ideas that it's our brain trying to process our experiences, our emotions, and that it's mainly symbolism we see that reflects our waking life.

I think it can be that and more. I know it to be more.

I've experienced blended dreams where I am lucid enough to know that the content of the dream is something I have experienced before, either in this life or another, while also recognizing that parts of the dream are symbolic and pointing me toward something I need to be aware of in my waking life.

I've even had experiences where dreams have been shared with friends or carried information that later proved meaningful. That's a much bigger conversation for another day.

I don't spend much time researching dream meanings anymore because I've found the symbolism inside my own dreams is deeply personal. Sometimes a dream is emotional processing or symbolic, healing or teaching. Often it's all of those things at once.

But I have been shown, and have experienced the knowing in my gut, that when I arrive in my Records at night and pass out in sleep, I am doing the work in my dreaming state too.

I don't always understand what that work is while I'm dreaming.

Sometimes I wake up knowing exactly what I experienced. Other times I simply wake up with the feeling that something important happened, even if I can't fully explain it yet.

I've woken up with the odd feeling of being both tired and rested. Rested enough to know that my body had slept. Tired enough to know that something else had been busy.

I like that I can accomplish healing and travel in my sleeping state. I often feel like I’ve learned something but my mind can’t explain it to anyone yet because the concepts are still settling. 

When you do work in dreams, you can have a team with you to help protect and navigate. I've come to trust that I'm not doing that work alone.

After multiple nights of dreams remembered, I realized that I was doing a lot in my dreaming state. Whether my body needed to fall asleep in the Records to do the work or the places I needed to go were ones not imagined by my awake mind, I was still doing the work.

The people I meet in my dreams feel deeply familiar even when I don't recognize their faces. I recognize them by their energy instead. It's the same feeling as walking into a room and immediately sensing its atmosphere before anyone says a word. 

There are even experiences I still struggle to explain, but those stories are for another time. 

Over time, I've come to see dreams as simply another place where the work continues.

Better Flow

Something else I began noticing was that this wasn't the first time my dreams had changed.

For a stretch of time before all of this, I barely dreamed at all. Then, almost suddenly, I was dreaming night after night.

Naturally, I asked why. The answer I received was simple. "You are in better flow. This is a good way for you to do more work."

It wasn't just an explanation for why I was dreaming again. It completely changed the way I understood what had been happening.

Instead of seeing dreams as something that simply happened to me while I slept, I began to understand them as another place where the work could continue.

Now, when I don't dream, or when I go through another stretch of time with no dreams, I don't automatically assume something is wrong.

Instead, I become curious.

I ask myself what might need to shift when it feels like my energy is kinked in a hose.

The water is still there. The source hasn't disappeared. Sometimes there's simply something restricting the flow. Rather than forcing more water through, it's usually more helpful to gently find where the hose has become bent and allow it to straighten again.

Sometimes it's stress, exhaustion, or something emotional. Sometimes it's simply that life has become so noisy.

When something that once felt natural suddenly feels difficult, I don't immediately assume it's gone. I ask where the flow might be restricted.

Sometimes the answer isn't to push harder. Sometimes it's simply to notice what's creating resistance.

Don't Mistake a Change in Form for a Loss of Connection

Looking back, I realized I was worried for nothing.

I wasn't not accessing the Records. I was accessing them in a new way. A way that allowed more flow.

For a while it felt as though my guides and the Keepers were not truly connecting with me.

When I was awake, I felt that I hadn't accomplished much in the Records. But my energy and intuition knew differently.

I thought my guides had gone quiet or that the Keepers weren't as eager to meet me anymore.

I thought because I couldn't consciously remember conversations in the Records that they weren't happening.

None of that turned out to be true.

The work hadn't stopped. The guidance hadn't disappeared. It had changed form!

Somewhere along the way, I had confused familiarity with connection.

Because guidance no longer looked the way I expected it to, my fear assumed it had left.

It hadn't. It had simply asked me to meet it somewhere new.

The more I stopped fighting the way the guidance wanted to come through, the more I realized I had never actually lost the connection I was afraid I'd lost.

I had simply become attached to what connection was supposed to look like. And I don't think that's only true of the Akashic Records. I think we do this in many parts of our lives.

We mistake a change in form for a loss of connection.

We assume silence means absence.

We assume that because guidance no longer looks the way it once did, it must have disappeared.

But it most likely hasn’t. Change is a constant thing, so why couldn’t the way you are invited to connect change a bit?

Living the Relationship

Long before this experience, I believed that the guidance that comes through is meant to be lived, not simply admired.

I still believe that.

This experience simply gave those words a much deeper meaning.

The work isn't collecting mystical moments or chasing extraordinary experiences. 

The work is allowing those experiences to change the way you live.

Sometimes guidance comes through a conversation, a book, a person, a dream.

The form matters far less than what you do with it once you've received it.

That's how I approach not only the Akashic Records, but life itself.

I don’t question the availability of guidance. I wonder curiously at the form it’s taking today. 

The deepest lesson the Records have taught me isn't about dreams at all but relationship.

Relationship with my guides, myself, my intuition. That mutual and loving trade, the back and forth that happens in relationships.

Try applying it to the relationship with the guidance you receive and see how it naturally unfolds.

And like any relationship, it deepens and surprises us. It asks us to grow. And it changes form from when we first fell in love with it. 

Maybe there is an area of your life where you've quietly concluded that something has gone silent and maybe it’s scared you.

Your intuition or creativity. A skill or your connection with yourself.

Before you decide it's gone… ask a different question.

What if it's simply speaking a new language?

Maybe nothing was ever lost. Maybe the relationship simply grew into a new form. 

If exploring your own relationship with guidance, intuition, or the Akashic Records feels like the next step for you, I'd be honored to walk with you.

Whether that's through a session, mentorship, or simply continuing these conversations here, my work has always been about helping people build a deeper relationship with themselves and the guidance that's already available to them.

You don't have to force the connection.

Sometimes you simply need someone to help you recognize the form it's taking.