Sometimes deep thinkers, writers and opinion leaders intimate that truth resides in dreams and the unconscious. While there may be some truth in this kind of analysis, here’s what Srila Prabhupada once said about dreams: “Svapna means dreamlike. As dream has no fact, it is all hallucination. Similarly our detachment from Krsna is also a hallucination. Actually there is no detachment….Just like in dream we cry, “Oh, here is a tiger! Here is a tiger! Tiger. Where is tiger? Similarly, this forgetfulness of Krsna is like that…” (London lecture 22 August 1971 on Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.4)
Dreams and the Unconscious