Is everything we see a hallucination?

Everything we perceive, including ourselves, are simulacrums of reality. The takeaway here is this wild thought: we are always hallucinating.

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How do our minds work?

Your brain contains billions of nerve cells arranged in patterns that coordinate thought, emotion, behavior, movement and sensation. A complicated highway system of nerves connects your brain to the rest of your body, so communication can occur in split seconds. Are dreams real? Dreams are basically stories and images that our mind creates while we sleep. Dreams can happen at any time during sleep. But you have your most vivid dreams during a phase called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, when your brain is most active. Some experts say we dream at least four to six times a night.

Is life an illusion or a dream?

Both are illusions, in the sense that your perception of reality is not Reality, and is constructed within your mind the same as dreams are. No one experiences reality directly save by perceptions crafted within their own minds. Are we stuck in a dream? Dreams about being trapped are a culmination of your emotions about current events in your life and your fears for the future. You're feeling trapped physically or emotionally, and your subconscious mind is attempting drills to help you get unstuck.

Is this world an illusion?

The idea that the world is an illusion tells us nothing. A word, to mean something, must also not mean something else. We understand illusion because we understand reality. To call everything an illusion would destroy the very concept of reality needed to establish what an illusion was in the first place.