Satsang can any one guide on this

Satsang can any one guide on this

""King Janaka used to gather many rishis in his palace and take delight
in discussing with them about spiritual problems; he was a great adept at
sadhana and he attained the highest stage of samadhi through Raja yoga.
One day, while in the midst of the court, with the Queen and the maids,
even while he was conversing with them, he fell asleep. He had a dream. He
dreamt that he was deprived of his kingdom, that he was roaming half-mad,
hungry and deserted in the jungle, begging for food from whoever he met, that he
came upon some men washing dishes and vessels after a feast which they had
shared, that he ran towards them seeking some crumbs, that they gave him
some little quantity of rice scraped from the vessels, that he was about
to put it into his mouth when a big bird flew in and swooped it out of his
grasp; so, he yelled in pain and grief, and the Queen heard it and she
woke him up.
Of course, when he woke, he knew he was the King. He remembered that a
second previously, he was a beggar. He questioned within himself, which is
real, this or that? To every one who inquired what the matter was, he put
the same question. "Am I a king or a beggar?" The queen and others were
frightened at this behaviour; they sent for the ministers and with them
came, Ashtavakra, the preceptor. He discovered the situation as soon as he
saw the King; so, to the question that the King put him, he answered,
"Raja!
This is unreal; that is unreal; you, who experienced this as well as that,
you alone are real."
The waking stage is real until the sleeping stage; the sleeping stage is
real, until the waking stage. But, both are unreal, because one cancels
the other.""

I just read this story and could understand everything except that one
question keeps bothering me....
How can we explain the continuity of the waking state and the
discontinuity of the dream state... if both are as unreal as the other,
then how is it that life is continuous when we wake up every morning...
also in the dream state we do not continue our dream we had the previous
night.... please help me understand this..

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