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sciousness throughout his dream, and says with reference to a dialogue between himself and his shadowy guru (preceptor) which is reported on pp. 308-369 of the book :
"The reader will thoroughly appreciate it if he only bears in mind, first that the scene of the dreamer's interview with the sage is laid in the world of dream and secondly that the dreamer's waking consciousness is intact thronghout the discourse."
This is, however, obviously, another charming instance of hallucination, if it be meant that the dreamer is awake in the same sense in which a man consciously cognizant of the waking world is said to be awake. The dreamer' would be able to understand his psycological condition better if he would try to discriminate between two different states of consciousness, one characterised by the conditions of normal wakefulness and the other by a dreamy state in which one dreams that one is dreaming. However much the continuity of the latter condition of consciousness might remain intact-- and it is bound to do so if the dream is not to be a summation of several dreams-it can never be described as the waking consciouspess. The dreamer gives himself away when he says (p. 370) at the end of the interview:
"It appears that the dreamer pressed and pressed the last question on to the sage who answered it in complete Silence by tightening his lips, closing his ears and shutting his eyes and gradually all appearances vanished, resulting in the dissolution of the dream-world. Thus ended the dream of the dreamer, who, when awakened into the waking world, was sorry for asking the last question, but he had the consolation of acquiring the power of summoning the sage at will in his dream."
On page 305 is given the ending of one such 'waking consciousness' dreams in the following words: “with these words he sa dream sadhu) strack the dreamer on his head with his heavy staff, who, in consequence woke up and found himself lying in his bed with his mind extremely puzzled."
The following question and answer also tend the same way, and would be meaningless in any other sense :
Q. “Dreamer.—You are right in saying that I do not want my dream-body to be injured or killed, and have indeed a strong love with this personality inspite of my knowledge that it is a dream, but if I do commit suicide here, will I be awakened ?"
A. “Sage.--No you wlll not be awakened, but will have another dream where you will lose even so much knowledge that it is a dream" (p. 317).
As regards the possibilities of hallucination, there is practically
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