Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche viewed consciousness as a “surface” layer that is not essential to mental life. It is still evolving, and so it is dangerous and imperfect. He also found that consciousness distorts reality, reducing complex, unconscious drives into simplified, generalized concepts, and thus “falsifies” experiences.

So generally, the idea is that conscious states casually interact with unconscious states, but since the conscious states are simplified versions of the unconscious states, this alteration often results in unconscious experience coming…