The process of falling into sleep is similar to falling into death.
The psycho-physical elements dissolve in the same way – but in death the dissolution is complete and connection to the physical body is lost. The elements manifest, not as a dream body, but as a bardo body.
The bardo body experiences dreamlike phenomena until this also dissolves into emptiness, and the elements re-emerge to manifest as physicality in a new body.
Just as in waking life and in dreaming, the five powers - confidence, energetic application, alert presence, meditative attention, and intelligent discernment - offer protection during bardo experience.
Battlecry of Freedom by Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2019, ISBN 978-1-898185-46-8 Part II - the slogans, p. 108
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