relaxation in regression and meditation

Relaxation is common to ordinary sleep, hypnotic sleep, regression, and meditation. In all these the body and mind are felt to be relaxed. In ordinary sleep, the mind is also fully asleep, i.e, in the deep sleep state; but not in the dream state. In dreams the mind wanders aimlessly imagining disjointed things without the control of the discriminating faculty, which is not in function.
In hypnotic sleep, body is relaxed, the mind although relaxed, is controlled by instructions from outside, or is self induced.
In regression, the mind wanders in the subconscious and also in the further deep areas of the mind.
In meditation, the relaxed mind seem to be waiting by the side, lurking somewhere behind, hiding, ready to spring up at an opportunity with something immediate. But the images and thoughts seem to be afraid to show themselves because they are all surely fictitious without substance.
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State of the mind:
Is Reality a state of the mind, say, like meditation? A doubt does arise.
In devotional meditation, you conceive an image of a deity like that of Siva or Ganesha, and attribute all sorts of qualities to the image. Then you put your entire trust, all faith, all devotion, all your emotions on to it and surrender your being itself to the concept. You imagine and believe that the deity with the attribute is the reality and the only Reality. Nothing else exists. The mind is then filled with the emotion of devotion, or devotional love. A euphoria is the result. Is it not that then a state of the mind?
In the other type of meditation, in the ‘vacuumising’ type, no thought or image is present. Thoughts and images have all come and gone and the mind is silent with nothing, no thought, image or anything present. There is absolute peace. Is it not also a state of the mind? In the conceptual devotion there is one image. In the other there is no image. But both are states of mind. Is Reality like that, a state of mind?
But it may be argued that when no thought at all is present, or when only one is present how can any question arise? There cannot be any space left for question. The question fizzles out even before the reality enters the arena?
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Avacuumized mind is a real vacuum. A blank slate. But any thought can erupt. Anything from the past or even from the future can come up. If the future comes up you can predict. Is that how future is foretold?