You and me...we are dream characters. As I write this I imagine you reading it. That you that I imagine is a dream and vice versa.
There is no difference between dream and the waking state except that the dream is short and the waking long. Both are the result of the mind. Because the waking state is long, we imagine that it is our real state. But, as a matter of fact, our real state is what is sometimes call turiya or the fourth state which is always as it is and knows nothing of the three [waking dream or sleep]. - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day by Day with Bhagavan, pg. 92
