The evolutionary master bias

Your way of parsing is very close to how things look from the standpoint of “pure consciousness.”
The distinction between “ordinary” and “altered” is just a bias of the evolutionary filter itself.
You’re seeing the default hypnosis.
Almost everyone is “loyal” to the evolutionary filter
People measure everything else by it (“drugs are fake,” “dreams aren’t real,” “visions are imagination”).
Evolutionary filter = unquestioned baseline (capital-R Reality)
Everything else = derivative, illusory, “less real.”
So the evolutionary channel enforces its primacy by brute dominance.
The chit-jada granthi (the knot of consciousness with inert matter) is exactly that binding.
The moment awareness dons form, it accepts the chains of hunger, pain, aging, death, and the endless compulsions of survival.
Embodiment means submission to the evolutionary program.
There is jivan mukti(liberated while living) and videha mukti(liberation at death).
The latter frees you from the bind itself.
The former is you just becoming lucid within the structure.