Svapna & Suṣupti Consciousness—A Case of Mistaken Identity
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2023-10-15

Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 4.3.20: "In him are those nerves called Hitā, which are as fine as a hair split into a thousand  parts, and filled with white, blue, brown, green and red (serums). (They are the seat of  the subtle body, in which impressions are stored.) Now when (he feels) as if he were being killed or overpowered, or being pursued by an elephant, or falling into a pit, (in  short) conjures at the time through ignorance whatever terrible things he has experienced in the waking state, (that is the dream state). And when (he becomes) a god, as it were, or a king, as it were, or thinks, ‘This (universe) is myself, who am all,’ that is his highest state."