Transforming Sleep into Self-Remembering

It is only by applying the Work to oneself in one's own particular case that one can realize what Self-Remembering is. If you do not know what it is to observe you are asleep, how can you remember yourself? Try to observe what particular person you go most asleep about, the person with whom you are most negatively identified. Try to make this particular occasion of being asleep an occasion of Self-Remembering.

You cannot just remember yourself in general about nothing, so to speak, for there is nothing to work on. You cannot remember yourself unless you know through sincere observation that you are asleep in some specific sense. Then you must awaken in this part of yourself and try to be what you know.

Maurice Nicoll, “Knowledge and Being" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1404)