a thought provoking quote

I was reading an article on Transparent things, for I have had so much difficulty with it, it is nice to see another persons point of view. I found this quote from Alexandrov that I found interesting:

In his fiction, as Vladimir E. Alexandrov notes, Nabokov often used analogies “between sleep and earthly life on the one hand, and wakefulness and a transcendent world on the other,”thus showing that he incorporated the possibility of an afterlife into his own philosophy. This is also expressed in a passage of “The Art of Literature and Commonsense”: “That human life is but the first installment of the serial soul and that one’s individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.”In the context of the essay, in which Nabokov makes a case against “commonsense,” his belief in immortality and an afterlife is given a place alongside his ethics and aesthetics.

I the the idea of sleep and earthly life on one side, and wakefulness and transcendent word on the other. Its almost saying that his dreams and unconcious state are more typical than how he feels while he is away. While he sleeps, he is opening his every day feelings and thoughts, maybe even dreams of the pass, but while he is awake and aware, he is in his transcendent world, opening himself up to superiority and transcending the universe. While he is awake, Nabokov is able to write and exceed in his abilities in an infinite way.