Beneath the Surface or Sky?

I had a strange dream last night where I felt like I was deep underground, walking through tunnels and darkness.
Yet, when I woke up, it turned out I was outside the house all along, just clouded by my imagination.
It made me wonder how often our mind tricks us into feeling trapped or lost even when we're free.
Sometimes life's uncertainties feel just like that—tunnels in the dark that turn out to be open fields all along.