What is the relationship between unconsciousness and awareness? || Acharya Prashant (2014)

“I have no body. I have no distinctive traits. Neither do I have a cause. I have no fourth state. One who is rooted in oneself is called a jivanmukta.”

~ Ashtavakra Gita

Question: What is the relationship between unconscious and awareness? Does unconscious dissolve in awareness?

Speaker: Only thought gives meaning to thought, right? Even when you are thinking, you require somebody to give meaning to that thinking. Have you not wondered after waking up from a dream, what was the dream all about?

Listener 1: Yes.

Speaker: Yes. Now, what is happening? What was the dream? A thought. And now what is thought trying to do?