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In the ordinary waking state, men are well aware that they are not sleeping; but in the dreaming state they mistakenly believe that they are in the other one. A few, however, have come to a degree of development where they know that they are dreaming, and fewer still know that they are in deep thought-free sleep. They are the sages.

-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 3 : The States of Consciousness > # 148