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The Importance of Dreamless Sleep
In a sense, and I think Ramana Maharshi pointed at this, this idea that we're most asleep actually to reality in the waking state. The opposite of that, the deepest you go in sleep is deep, dreamless sleep where you are aware but not oblivious. And as it expresses in the dream, that's one level of reification. It's still a little illusory feeling. Then we get to what we think is waking gross reality where things are stable and independent and solid. But that is not true. That can be seen through. Our entire physicalist worldview that a lot of scientists have and so on, may actually be backwards that everything is mind