This is what happens when god takes a snooze and has a little dream.

Love it!

Given your post and your username, you might enjoy (or, uh, hate) scientific Idealism -- the theory that reality is fundamentally mental and that the physical world IS INDEED basically a dream of God's, with each individual living thing hosting a small, dissociated piece of the universal consciousness -- the soul, if you will. Bernardo Kastrup calls that bit of consciousness That Which Experiences, and it is the only reason we're not just physical zombies. The theory solves the "hard problem" of consciousness somehow emerging from the physical action of atoms and molecules and has much else to recommend it as well; many scientific papers have been published about it recently.

Of course, plenty of people think it's nuts.

The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality.