How to get rid of daydreaming? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Questioner: Sir, how to get rid of the problem of daydreaming?

Acharya Prashant: Are you day dreaming and knowing that it is day dreaming?

No! It’s not possible. You know that you have been dreaming only after the dreaming ceases. Right?

Now you are obviously helpless when the process of dreaming is on so I have nothing to say in that matter. You see if a sleeping person asks “how do I wake up”, now when he is sleeping, at that moment can he do anything to wake up? When you are sleeping, can you do anything to wake up?

Listeners: No.

AP: You are sleeping. Can you do anything to wake up? You can’t. You can do something to wake up only when you have already woken up, and you know that you are likely to go into sleep sometime soon, and you know you are likely to go into dreams pretty soon. Are you getting it?

What you do then? How do you ensure that you will wake up in time, even when sleep is warning you? What can you do?