The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self