Wow. After typing this post to you. I just discovered a new song... And it seems to align with some of the concepts I am trying to describe above.
https://youtu.be/qnhWdMAxGCc?si=8LpP1yMxojuI9ndh"What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. Your dreaming right now in this moment. Your dreaming, with the brain awake. Dreaming is the main function of the mind. And the mind dreams 24 hours a day. It dreams when the brain is awake, and it also dreams when the brain is asleep. The difference is, that when the brain is awake, there is a material frame that makes us perceive things in a linear way. When we go to sleep we do not have the frame, and the dream has the tendency to change constantly. Humans are dreaming all the time."
....Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily....
Life is but...
