Your brain works through complex electrical and chemical processes, I think it's safe to say that you all know that. We all have a tremendous amount of information to deal with all day, quite staggering the brain can keep up. Luckily, sleep comes to help us cope with all that. It kind jumbles up all our new information and mixes it with past experiences. Gives us time to process things.
When you're in that dream, but you don't realise it yet, you KNOW it's true, even if it's unlikely. At some point, you realise you're in a dream and it sinks in that it's not real.
So now you're giving yourself the same chemicals while you're awake and what does it do? Gives you the same feelings while you're awake! No way to realise you're dreaming, cause you know you're awake. No wonder you conclude it must therefore be real.
And since it's so clearly not an every day thing you experience, it must therefore be something of a higher power. I get that.
You can take from it whatever you want. But I know that if I experienced something like that, my brain was tricked into believing/experiencing that. I know that because I've seen it in others whose brain chemicals were unbalanced. Did you know schizophrenics have very common delusions? Their hallucinations and such have a lot in common, because they lived in the same society in early life, even if they never actually met. You can call it connecting, but the truth is their brain isn't processing the available information correctly. The fact that they receive very similar information is the reason similar results are given.
Go watch this video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYUVery fascinating video of someone talking about their experience, she mentions some very similar things to what you say. Main differences, she's a neurobiologist, so she understands why she's feeling it and she experiences it at a time when her brain was basically shutting down.
But you can see and hear from how she talks about it that it all felt very real at the time.
You can call me or Wally ignorant, but the truth is you have no clue how much I know about this sort of stuff, just like I don't know how much you know. This is why you should say more than just
Lol. No.
Because saying that tells me nothing about what you know, which can only lead me to conclude you know nothing. This is why I explain why I believe things. Absolute certainty "because I know that I know" means nothing.