And false awakenings

All an illusion, you say That was a false awakening that didn t really occur. You have no objective evidence of it. Rubbish I reply. You are again forced back to the wall of absurdity. I know I (sometimes) have false awakenings (from REM) and I know what they are like, just as I know I sometimes have confusional, confabulatory awakenings (from NREM) and I know what they are like. These problematical exceptions must be acknowledged and they must be explained, but they must not be allowed to confound signal and noise (or baby and bath water). ... 

The idea that false personality must die is misleading when the superego takes it up and uses it as fuel for more mechanical attacks on you. Yet the metaphor of death is quite accurate in another way, for the magnitude of change possible (and required) for full awakening is indeed like a death and rebirth. As so many spiritual traditions have said in one fashion or another, Except ye become as little children. . 

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