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The false vacuum theory and energy levels of fields?

So I have been reading a little bit about the false vacuum theory and am a little confused. From what I have read, the theory states that some mathematics suggests that the Higgs field is not in its ground state energy level and if something were to bump it out of the current stable state that it is in, it could fall to its ground state energy level and that would bring about all sorts of havok.
My question is this: Do fields, like the Higgs field, have actual ENERGY states? Much like an electron has discrete energy states in an atom and prefers to be in its ground state. The idea of a field having an energy level is confusing to me. I feel like it would not be an "energy level" like the energy levels of electrons that I am fairly familiar with.
EDIT: Spelled Vacuum wrong in the title...
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>have actual ENERGY states?

Fields have energy, though it isn't discrete like bound states (because you can also have unbound states).

You have to remember that every particle is an excitation of a field, so if a field couldn't have energy neither could a particle.