Yajnavalkya Kanda. Adhyaya 4, Brahmana 3. The self-luminous Self: waking, dream, and the light of man
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Each mantra is given four ways: the Sanskrit in its Devanagari script, the same sounds in Roman letters, an English translation set in our own voice, and then the line once more in plain words, for a first and unhurried reading.
Not every passage is opened to the same depth. A few central mantras carry the full cross-school commentary, where the schools are set side by side. The rest are kept here whole and faithful, set in their place but not expounded, so the book stays entire and nothing is dropped for being thought minor.
Where the schools read a line differently, the difference is kept open. None is crowned and none is corrected. Each is met on its own terms, and where they contradict, the contradiction is left standing for you to sit with.
Many forms in dream
In the dream, going high and low, the shining one makes many forms: now seeming to rejoice with women, now laughing, now even seeing terrors.
Within the dream the radiant self (deva) ranges through high states and low, fashioning many shapes. At one moment he seems to delight in the company of women and to laugh, at another he seems to look upon frightening things. All of it is his own making, appearing and vanishing within him.
In the commentaries
Sankara reads the shifting dream-figures, pleasures and terrors alike, as forms the self merely projects and witnesses, never becoming; the self remains the one luminous seer while the contents change, untouched by joy or fear.