Will this answer 'Is the world real' queries and Pond'arrays?

145-148 The confusion is due to want of discrimination between the real and the unreal among ignorant folk. Ignorantly indeed do they say that the wakeful universe is real. Tripura Rahasaya

"Nothing is as it seems. Nor is it otherwise."

Lankavatara Sutra - Mahāyāna Buddhism

There is no greater mystery than this; that being the reality we seek to gain reality.

Sri Ramana Maharishi

Plato’s cave analogy.

Inprisoned inside the cave (Us), prisoners see the shadows on the wall and mistakenly view the shadows as reality.

Greek word "cosmos" Meaning "In The World" apart from God

And Christian gnosticism - "Seraphims" Keter - Crown Divine Plan ~ The Angel of Death. (Read John 7:7) Satan is the ruler of this "cosmos" (John 12:31; 16:11; 1 John 5:19)

Islam.

The Surah takes its title from the sentence, Wa anzalna l-hadida, of verse 25 A study of iron

Hinduism. (Caught up in Samsara – Maya ~ The Malevolant illusion)