The more obvious something is, the harder it is to explain or describe. That's what it means to be obvious: to be taken as true without reasons. So when attempting to explore such subjects as I enjoy, topics I invent at least as much as I discover, I find myself trying to describe ideas completely unrelated to those I'm thinking about, using a complaint about my boss(or wrinkled clothes) to explore what it means to be part of a whole, because I use the same sort of thinking to understand the concrete situation as I do to understand the abstract one.
I've found myself playing this game for some months now, toying with nonsense to help me understand the ephemeral and transcendent, with the interesting and perhaps unfortunate result that I've developed truths I can only share by throwing out more nonsense. So when I say reality is a dream we're all having together, or when I interpret the god concept as analogous to the dreamer, it isn't that I think either of these things is true. But the way I Do think things are, the connections and patterns I see but can't yet explain, are the way things Would be if we were all the same person experiencing ourself from different angles, the way everyone you meet and everything you do in a dream is really another part of yourself.
So this dream(er) myth has value as metaphor, the way God works as a thought experiment for reflecting on existence and the human condition, or general relativity works as a tool for reflecting on the relationship of motion to space and time. These are not Truths, but tools with which one practices thinking truly, so that, once we discover the next thing we don't know, we have methods ready to approach it with.
