" We may guess that in dreams life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant; and that time and space do not exist as our waking selves comprehend them. Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories