"And it has happened many times that by some accident the man was awakened suddenly and he died, but that is simply out of a deep auto-conditioning.

"In the dream you don't go anywhere; otherwise it would be happening all over the world, not only in a certain tribe where the belief is perennial. You can wake up anybody; that does not mean he will die. But in those particular tribes – in India there are a few tribes and in other countries in the Far East – they are very respectful when a person is asleep because he may be visiting faraway places. No noise is made, no disturbance, so the person can wake up on his own when he returns. If he is not back yet and you wake him up, you have broken the thread that joins him with his soul. In those tribes, it happens.

"This is something very essential to be understood. It is a vicious circle: if you believe in something, it happens; then you believe it more, then it happens more, and so on and so forth. The wheel goes on deepening into your being.

"These tribes which have that kind of myth also think that whatever you do in a dream is real. For example, if you have slapped somebody in the dream, then the first thing to do in the morning is to ask the elders of the tribe, 'What should I do? In the dream I have slapped somebody.' And they prescribe the apology: 'Take sweets, fruits to the person and ask his forgiveness.' And because of such simplicity, they rarely dream. It is very rare for people in those tribes to dream. Their sleep is a solid block of silence.

"This is significant in reference to Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalysis. Those tribes have been doing psychoanalysis for centuries. You have slapped somebody in the dream, and in the day you go to apologize, to be forgiven. This is a deep psychoanalysis. You are not just relating a dream to that psychoanalyst, you are actually living it again – and not only living it, you are trying to clean yourself of it.

"Those tribes don't collect rubbish."