The One Awake in Deep Sleep

This is a daytime reflection, not a night practice. Sit quietly in any free moment, perhaps after lunch when the house is calm. Ask yourself slowly, last night, in the deepest sleep, before any dream began, what was aware? The body was resting. The thinking mind was off. And yet something must have been there to know that the sleep was sweet, to know that a long stretch passed. Do not rush an answer. Sit with the question. The same quiet knowing that held last night's deep sleep is sitting here with you now.