"Taking another example of how mind is so important is the example of when we dream. While we are dreaming, the sensory consciousnesses are shut down and the seventh consciousness which is the "self' begins to receive perceptual information from the storehouse consciousness and this input is so vivid that we believe it is really happening to us even though we may be dreaming that we are doing something fantastic such as flying.

Throughout a dream we have one part of our mind which is an awareness, a self or I, which is perceiving what is going on and there must also be another part of our mind which is creating the dream. Sometimes these two functions of mind are quite distinct so we actually don't know how the dream will tum out and at other times these two functions bleed together and we either know what is going to happen in the dream or have an ability to change the "script" or outcome of the dream.

The Mind-only view is that when we are awake, the outside sensory information is so vivid that we believe that it is real and how we are interpreting what is happening to us is based on what is stored in our store-house eighth consciousness."

Clark Johnson