What really happens when we go to sleep? There are periods of lapsing into total unconsciousness; because had there been break in the flow of consciousness we could not on waking resume the thread of personal identity. ‘I slept soundly’, ‘I don’t remember anything,’ ‘I think I had a dream, but I remember very little’ are the common reasonings which we give when asked about our sleep, on being awakened.
An investigation on the nature of sleep and deep or dreamless sleep may reveal the true nature of things blurring the inner psychic appearance and the outer physical appearance in dream showing the truth of non-duality. After all, sleep is a state of altered consciousness that occupies a third of our life. The three stages of consciousness, waking, dreaming and deep sleep; encompasses all.
A dream is caused by the latent impressions of the waking state, while deep sleep is the rest....
