Waking extension

"....The waking state as you think of it is a specialised extension of the dream state and emerges from it to the surface of your awareness, just as your physical locations are specified extensions of locations that exist first with the realm of the mind.

"The waking state then has its source in the dream state and all of the objects, environment and experience that are familiar to you in the waking state also originate in that inner dimension. When you examine the state of dreams however you do it as a rule from the frame work of waking reality .You try to measure the dimension of dream experience by applying the rules of reality that are your usual criteria for judging event. There fore you are not able to perceive the true characteristic of the dreaming state except on those few occasions when you come awake with your dreams, a matter we will discuss later later on in this book ..."

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