Yes Content No Content Yes Self No Self WakingWaking DreamingDreaming SleepingSleeping Transcendental Consciousness

Content Analysis Absence of time, space and body sense. Absence of time, space and body sense. Travis and Pearson 2000

Transcendental Consciousness Spontaneous Breath Quiescence and Autonomic Measures

Junction Point Model Travis, 1994

Junction Point during Sleep and TM practice

Junction Point in non- meditators falling asleep and during TM Transcendental Consciousness and the Junction Point Travis, 1994

Junction points between sleeping and dreaming Travis, 1994

Main Point EEG power and coherence patterns during TM practice are similar to those seen during the transitions between waking, sleeping, and dreaming, though they last longer during TM practice. The junction point model states: “The three relative states of consciousness, exist and run through their continuous, ever-changing alternation on the basis of the fourth state underlying them.” Maharishi