Mandukya_Upanishad

But, if you feel that by waking up from dream you losenothing, rather you become better, then the same ruleapplies to the state of God-realisation. You do not loseanything by God-realisation. On the other hand, youbecome better and get enhanced in being. While in dreamyou saw only phantoms, and in waking you feel that you seereal things. In God you see things as they really are, ratherthan the phantasms that you see in this so-called wakinglife. This is the metaphysical analysis of dream experiencein relation to the world of waking. The world of dream isnot outside the mind; the world of waking is not outside theAbsolute.Dream is not merely a metaphysical problem; it is also apsychological occurrence. It is a reversion of the mind intoits own abode, from the world of sensory operations. Thatis why it is called antah-prājñah, and praviviktabhuk. It isantah-prājñah, or internally conscious, because the mindcan project a world in dream, independent of the operationof the waking senses. The eyes may be closed, but yet youwill ‘see’ in dream. You may plug your ears and go to bed,and yet you will ‘hear’ in dream. Though the tongue doesnot actually work, you can ‘taste’ in dream. You can have allthe sensory functions in dream, though the waking sensesare not active then. The mind projects itself as the senses ofdream and becomes capable of contacting dream objectswhich, also, are a partial manifestation of the same mind.The mind divides itself into the subject and the object, theseer as well as the seen. You are the beholder of the dream,and you are also, simultaneously, the world which youbehold. The world of dream, together with the beholder in77