From a mystic’s perspective, are we dreaming all the time but only aware of this when asleep?

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From this mystic’s perspective, there’s ultimately no difference between waking and sleep. Answers sought can be found anywhere. And the concreteness of this world is fundamentally similar to the concreteness of the dreaming world. The only solid thing in the world is the mind, everything else issues forth from it.

So how does this work? The mystic spends long long periods of time in contemplation of the nature of existence. He or she learns to find answers anywhere. If you had a question you needed an answer to, you might crack open a book or open a Google query. The mystic simply feels what the answer might be. That feeling slowly coalesces and a vision forms.

Is this vision correct? In the beginning no. This is what the books and Google searches and such are for. Correcting the mystic’s grasp on reality.

A non-mystic cannot perceive the similarities between the concrete world and the one of abstractions. A mystic erases that difference from their mind, as concreteness is more illusory than actual illusion. It is merely one kind of abstraction or another.

A dream state simply carries certain experiential connotations. Events proceed into each other with different ‘flavor’. The experience of reading a book carries its own experiential connotations. As does playing a video game.

The non-mystic must change his physicality in order to change his mentality. The mystic’s mentality shifts moment to moment, far faster than their physical circumstances ever could.