Some more w/e reading for when the footie is finished!!
Probably only suitable for the enquiring mind.
http://www.theosophical.ca/DreamsBlavatsky.htm#7
in part
Planes of Consciousness in Dreams
But unless you are an Adept or a highly trained Chela, thoroughly acquainted with these different states of being (or planes of consciousness), the distinct set of senses for each state cannot be distinguished. Science, such as biology, physiology and even psychology (of the Maudsley, Bain, and Herbert Spencer schools) do not touch on this subject. Science teaches us about the phenomena of volition, sensation, intellect, and instinct, and says that these are all manifested through the nervous centres the most important of which is our brain. She will speak of the peculiar agent or substance through which these phenomena take place as the vascular and fibrous tissues, and explain their relation to one another, dividing the ganglionic centres into motor, sensory and sympathetic, but will never breathe one word of the mysterious agency of intellect itself, or of the mind and its functions. [ This was said in 1889. Today western Science is accepting one after another of the teachings of the Secret Doctrine without, however, acknowledging their source. Particularly is this so in regard to Manas (Mind), since Einstein gave out this theory of Relativity in 1915. For, whereas the old school of materialism held the view that our minds are the product of our brains, we are now told that matter may itself be mental. As Professor Eddington puts it: "There is nothing to prevent the assemblage of atoms forming the brain from being itself a thinking machine in virtue of that nature which physics leaves undetermined and indeterminable". And the final conclusion is that the "Mind of Man, which, on the old outlook, was a random and insignificant outcome of alien forces, is once more restored as the central mystery in the universe it surveys". See Buddhism the Science of Life by Alice L.Cleather and Basil Crump. Peking, 19.8 2nd edition, pages 37-39.- Editor ]
Now, it frequently happens that we are conscious and know that we are dreaming; this a very good proof that man is a multiple being on the thought plane; so that not only is the Ego, or thinking man, Proteus, a multiform, ever-changing entity, but he is also, so to speak, capable of separating himself on the mind or dream plane into two or more entities; and on the plane of illusion which follows us to the threshold of Nirvâna, he is like Ain-Soph talking to Ain-Soph, holding a dialogue with himself and speaking through, about, and to himself. And this is the mystery of the inscrutable Deity in the Zohar, as in the Hindu philosophies; it is the same in the Kabbala, Purânas, Vedantic metaphysics, or even in the so-called Christian mystery of the Godhead and Trinity. Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm: the god on earth is built on the pattern of the god in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal or false Ego.
What is termed "unconscious cerebration" during sleep is a conscious operation of the Ego, the result of which only, is impressed on the ordinary consciousness.
