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The key point here is that your conciosness deals only in memories, the models of things. When you see something you know, the model of that thing is applied to your conciousness. This is why I say that the sensory part of the brain guides conciousness. When you are awake, the models or memories that are being applied to your conciousness are being picked out by your sensory part. When you conjur a memory, you are yourself selecting a model or memory to apply to your conciousness.
When you dream, this is kind of reversed. The part of the sensory interface that actually applies the memory is turned down, which leaves only your conciousness to do selection. This means that sensory information is only vaguely applying memories to your conciousness (alarm interpreted as in-dream sound, etc) and memories or models that are selected by conciousness itself are applied fully, in incredible detail and vividness. The exact opposite as the wakeful mind.
So the result is that conciousness only deals in it's models. Sensory organs only create models or choose models.
This explains many things. Lucid dreams are explained. Sleep paralysis is also explained. The loss of memory during dreams is explained. False awakenings are explained.
It is exactly as you described. Nobody can ever understand it until they experience it. Comparing it to the matrix might do it a little justice. But there are limitations -- waking up, falling back into non-lucidity, false awakenings and so on.
The first lucid dream I had was glorious. I was dreaming about being on a very tall grey building with overcast skies, on a wooden deck protruding from the side of the building. I became lucid and commanded the sky to crack with lightning and it did. I flew upward and created a swirl of clouds and was generally having an amazing time. This all was as if it were completely real. Then, too excited, I woke up. But it was a terrifying false awakening where a black figure sprinted toward me and attacked me. Then I woke up for real, absolutely terrified. It was so scary that I decided not to lucid dream anymore. But with recounting all of this, and thinking about it for the first time again, I think I might start doing it again.
If over-connectivity is the source of all these problems then isn't that a boon because it must be simpler to cut connections therapudicly than to create them