@Asuyuia This all reminds me of Descartes' philosophical "ball of wax example": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_argument
"Perhaps it was what I now think, viz. that this wax was not [any of several things], but simply a body which a little while before appeared to me as perceptible under these forms, and which is now perceptible under others. But what, precisely, is it that I imagine when I form such conceptions?"