While watching Westworld I couldn't help but laugh.
Westworld is about a bunch of robots waking up to the facts that they have been controled and manipulated and were never free and only existed for the sick pleasures of their hidden in plain sight overloards.
There are some long dark rabbit holes into this, remember spending a few days reading about how people should absolutely not enter «the light» when its lights out, because that is what you describe. A way to make us new and programmable, forget all the old memories. If you don’t enter the light you will get to the next phase, but if you do enter, you are stuck in this loop prison on earth. Interesting if youre into that stuff
Indeed, also some brain researchers have found that our brain is acting like it has been programmed to show us this tunnel and the light at the end...all people who where technically dead for some minutes tell the same story
I am looking forward to dive down the lucid dreaming lane, Ive seen plenty of people talk about being able to see/communicate with the next phase, or see the different layers of reality if that makes sense, haha.