Surface consciousness of the inner vital

Q: All I can say is that I was having many incoherent dreams and visions—perhaps in the surface consciousness. .

The surface consciousness of the inner vital being. Such experiences are common. Of course, when one goes still deeper, one doesn’t see incoherent dreams and visions. There is a point between the surface consciousness and the deeper vital which is full of these fantasies. They are apparently incoherent, but when one gets the clue one finds that everything is a linked whole. This I have seen many times in my own case. In the physical a mouse turning into an elephant may have no meaning, but it is not so in the vital. These fantasies don’t have the coherence that is found in the physical, but they have their own coherence – that of the vital plane.

– Sri Aurobindo