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What happens to the feeling of one's physical body, to all the thoughts in awareness of one's personal self, to the perceptions of all the things outside, when one falls into a sleep without dreams? Everything vanishes and yet the next morning everything reappears. Therefore not one thing was lost. Where were they all? The sleep itself provides an answer. Its own deeper level receives and holds the self and its objects of attention and then projects them forth again. That level is the Mind, the Real, Consciousness-in-Itself.

-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 3 : The States of Consciousness > # 135