The explanation for what I've been experiencing the past few days (regarding Earth, and the universe, being 2-dimensional) has been in front of me the whole time.

Quantum metaphysics' law of 5/2 (energy perspective) states that perspective doesn't need to use any more energy (interactions) than it needs to.

Everything is folded into your current perspective. Including the universe. This is at every level.

...so everything is folded into the solar system. Everything is folded again into the atmosphere. And so on.

Information is 2-dimensional, as it is made up of both Spatial information (Chaos) and Systemic information (Order).

We can then interpret it however we want. And so we interpret 2 dimensions not as 3 but as 4.

You could say, we are give 2 dimensions of Chaos and Order which we then interpret and Space and Time.

A three dimensional world would be a complete waste of interactions. There's no need to generate the back side of something you're looking at, for example. Or, as Maria/Chaol would say, there's no need for the bedrooms upstairs to exist when you're sitting in the living room.

Everything in the universe is folded into your current perspective. Your perceptions are two-dimensional because the the most efficient way for three and four dimensions to have reality is in your mind.

Maria has all ways said that the stars and everything else we see is as close as your perspective. The Sun rises first in your perspective.

But now I understand she meant this literally. What we think of as stars are not distant suns. They are extremely close, as is our Sun and everything else that we think is 'out there'.

You could say, "NASA has never been to space because I have never been to space." It becomes a logical narrative where nearly everything else in your perspective is 'fake' because there is no need for it to be fully-expressed. Wars are 'fake' because there is no need for them to be real in your perspective. It's a waste of energy for you to construct an actual battlefield that you don't experience. So, you make the illusion a logical narrative.

This logical narrative becomes something like this...

1) In World War II all the sides were actually working together
2) Because you didn't experience it directly. You don't need to
3) So this illusion is expressed in your reality as a fake war.
4) And everything that supports a 'fake World War II' scenario is produced in your mind, as well
5) But those things are also an illusion
6) and so on

We can be aware of this illusion while still interacting with them. And then we realize it's more entertainment so that we exist, rather than something very serious.