Sri Aurobindo and The Mother from Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, in their book, How to Sleep Well: Words of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, talk about the science of getting peaceful sleep.
In this softcover book of 40 pages, their words – ordinarily, when one sleeps, a complex phenomenon happens. The waking consciousness is no longer there, for all has been withdrawn within into the inner realms of which we are not aware when we are awake, though they exist; for then all that is put behind is veiled by the waking mind, and nothing remains except the surface self and the outward worlds, much as the veil of the sunlight hides from us the vast worlds of the stars that are behind it.
Sleep is a going-inward process in which the surface self and the outside world are put away from our senses and vision. But in ordinary sleep, we do not become aware of the worlds within; the being seems submerged in a deep subconscience. On the surface of the subconscience floats an obscure layer in which dreams take place, as it seems to us, but, more correctly, they are recorded…
