All the three states are made of the same substance, whether it is dreams, deep sleep or waking waking. All the object and sense perception is of the same substance. This is the great lesson to be learnt by the seekers of truth.
The three divisions of time--past present and future--are within the waking/dream. It becomes necessary to analyze the three states. Whatever may come in the future, whatever objects existed in the past, whatever thing one can think of in the present--all these are possible only in waking experience. Waking/dream consists of names and forms.” All names are but words.
All the three states are got from the Ataman/soul, corresponding to formlessness. One has to merge waking into dreams, then merge dream into deep sleep. And finally he has to merge into Ataman.
Anything which is an experience, is part of the mirage, and hence a superimposition. Ataman/soul is the substratum of the three states.
