If we take the idea that life is but a dream seriously, then we could understand life as another version of deletion. That's because most theories of what dreams do is to organize information to make it more useful to the mind. Which means a lot of clean up and deletion. So now we want to define life as a form of deletion. If there is a direct analogy with dreamlife vs real life (which has experience deleted from it, or at least pushed into the darkness of the subconscious, during dreams), then there has to be another version of life that is being deleted from to form the experience of this life. What are the essential differences between what real life does to the mind and what dream experience does to the mind? They offer a lot of the same opportunities for experience, which is a good reason to call dreaming and being awake two versions of life. But a few obvious differences are how persistent dreams are and that they are fundamentally derived from real life in a way that real life can't easily be derived from them (real life experience gets injected in dreams routinely, but dream elements that are connected to a continuous experience aren't routinely injeced into real life). So what's this higher level of reality like if direct anaolgies exist with the dream/reality relation in the reality/??? relationship? It would mean that life is derived from (organized around) ???life experience in the same way that we dream about stuff we experience while we are awake. The by product of this relationship would be stuff like synchronicity or spirituality. What about the part where dreams are less persistent? (You can dream something, but when you wake up, it was generally just a dream, so if someone died or you were caught having strange relations with an animal, nobody in this life knows any specifics until you tell them since they weren't there (just dream versions of them). So an obvious dreamlike end

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