Are we living in a dream?

It must be my fascination for a couple of movies 'The Matrix' and 'Inception' that makes me think of what if the ideas behind these movies were true.
What If all the world were a dream?
Well If that were so , where should we focus?

Do we need to focus on altruistic motives or egoistic motives?
I think we should be non-egoistic.
Why?
Simple answer nothing you do to your ego (material wealth or security or power ) is going to effect your soul after death.
I say this because I have a little bit of real proof , a tad hazy at the moment but these are called Near Death Experiences.
The people who have faced death (including brain death) and come back after that , never speak of how good they felt because
they had been wealthy in their earthly life.
If anything they felt the other way. They felt they should have been less hurting and more loving.
Infact almost all of the people who have had NDE have become altruistic after the experience.

But it's also a bit of common sense. What good is wealth or power to the soul ?
Because the wealth you've earned is still in the banks or things you invested it in.
It's true it affects your progeny, but we don't know if too much wealth affects them too correctly.
Or for that matter if too much power will do them too good.
Some people  'realise' either through NDE or through 'Meditation' or through 'Prayer'
that the material world is not going to give them happiness , and realise that real happiness already is present in us.
All we have to do is to stop looking and be us !
These are the lucky people. They simply are. And happiness is natural to them.
The Only difference between these people and the others are that the others are still thinking.
The mind is a powerful tool.
But unfortunately it first creates a basic and false 'I' thought to do all it's other thinking.
This I thought is actually false because it pertains to just your own body or mind.
It may extend to your kids and spouse. Rarely beyond your nation.
But reality is different. Reality is that you are not of a body or a family or a nation.
In reality you are the same consciousness that is the one and only consciousness that exists everywhere and at all times.
Your "I am the body -thought" is an illusion. And based on this illusion your entire life you have run after illusions.
When you have run enough and gathered enough you realise that these were all mirages.
Time to meditate. Time to think who you really are.
Time to ask "Who am I" ?
And ask who is the asker and who is the receiver of the answer !!