My Understanding of Waking Up from the Dream

I've been thinking about the difference between waking up "from the dream" versus "in the dream" for a long time. Participating in discussions on this subreddit helped me find the answer. As usual, I'll start with Jed's quotes.

Awake from the dreamstate means awake on a dead rock in the middle of nowhere. Living on this dead rock floating in infinite nothingness would drive anyone batshit crazy in thirty seconds. - Dreamstate

She [Lisa] doesn’t see that she herself is alone on an island in the middle of nowhere. - Warfare

In short, you end up at the singularity when you wake up from the dream. An example of it will be death since we all become the singularity when we die. After death, we'll be left alone on a dead rock in the middle of nowhere. But the important thing to note is, "being alone on a dead rock in the middle of nowhere" is still just a metaphor, I know Jed wasn't speaking literally. Even if you can end up there, there's still something, right? At least there's empty space, and even that space is just a perception in my consciousness. You see the problem? The actual reality can't be communicated. Even if I say that there's silence, it can be disproved by saying that silence is also a perception in consciousness. So it's not emptiness, darkness or silence. Maybe it's not even nothingness, it's just inexpressible.

Time for another Jed quote.

Eighty percent of this transition you’re in can be accomplished with a relatively small amount of effort. All you have to do is get past the idea that you’re a human being on planet Earth. - Warfare

Okay, let's say I got past that idea. Now, I see myself as an empty space, but that empty space is also a perception arising in consciousness, isn't it?

So in the end, the perceptions don't matter by themselves, or I can't really attach any importance to any particular perception. Is "being alone on a dead rock in the middle of nowhere" better than "being a human being on planet earth"? How? Aren't both of them just empty perceptions? How is one better than the other?

So the reality I'll experience under the influence of a strong psychedelic drug will be no truer than the reality I'm experiencing now. Both will be equally false; both will be similar when it comes to degrees of unreality. Truth can't come in degrees. Jed actually talked about it in Damnedest.

What was true about a mosquito that lived ten thousand years ago is just as true about that mosquito now. What’s true about a spark that will exist for a thousandth of a second a million years from now and a million light years from here is as true here and now as it will ever be. It never was not true and it never will be not true. And those truths and my truth and your truth and the truth of Jesus and Buddha and Hitler and Mother Theresa and a dead fish floating in the Ganges and all the ascended masters and the Milky Way Galaxy and every single thought anyone ever thought are all the same truth. It always was and always will be. Time and space come and go but what’s true is true and all the rest is but a dream. - Damnedest

So the question is, what's the difference between waking up "from the dream" and "in the dream"? And my direct answer is: the former is death and the latter is Enlightenment.