If in a dream you have a jewel box, and you open it and find a diamond, and then you think, “Wow, I have a diamond, a real diamond,” then that is the view of realism. But then you go somewhere else in your dream and open the box again and there is no diamond; then you have a very strong view of non-existence. There is nothing. But both the view of something and the view of nothing are just part of the confused dream. Since it is the case that there was never any diamond in the first place, there cannot be any non-existence of the diamond either. So both of these are just confused notions.

 - Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche