Trapped

Most of us are trapped. We're trapped in a state of reality. Have you you ever had a bad dream or nightmare that you couldn't wake up from? It seemed so real that you thought that you were awake.
I believe that many of us are trapped in a state of reality that we can't wake up from. Deepak Chopra talk about seven states of consciousness and we spend most of our time in the third state of consciousness. What prevents us from moving on to the fourth or transcendental state and the fifth or cosmic state of consciousness?
We're trapped by fear, pain, suffering and lack. For many of us, there is so much of these four characteristics that we get stuck in the third state of consciousness and can't move on. These things serve as distractions.
I have always been able to snap out of a bad dream and return to the waking state of consciousness. Couldn't we use this same power to snap out of the waking state of consciousness and return to a higher state of consciousness? We have the power!