Thank you for articulating this complex cognitive process so clearly. Your points resonated well with me as I have been researching the impact of Reticular Activating System (RAS) for a long time and summarized my findings last year. I link the story here as a reference to your great piece.

Here’s Why I See RAS as the Secret to Accomplish Dreams with Less Effort.

https://medium.com/sensible-biohacking-transhumanism/the-secret-to-leveraging-ras-to-accomplish-dreams-with-less-effort-40197d2a1083

I liked your rewording to dream to vision which makes better sense to the public.