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Yoga Sutras 1.6
Patanjali, explained by Swami Vivekananda
प्रमाण-विपर्यय-विकल्प-निद्रा-स्मृतयः ॥
pramāṇa-viparyaya-vikalpa-nidrā-smṛtayaḥ
(These are) right knowledge, indiscrimination, verbal delusion, sleep, and memory.
In plain words: The five kinds of thought-waves are right knowledge, mistaken knowledge, ideas built only on words, sleep, and memory.