What are the differences between imagination,dream, reality and absolute reality?

[Ibn Sina]

By imagination, I mean the mental activity that lead GRRM write GOT and JK rowling write Harry potter, and Rimbaud write his 'Illuminations' and 'Season in hell'.
By dream I mean the dream that we see while we sleep.
By reality I mean the state that we are in after we are awoken from our night dream.
By absolute reality, I mean the absolute truth which some people here have reached.
 

The 1st one I think is a 'transient perception', which comes and goes, whose half life is short. 
I find that the f 2nd and 3rd have some similarity, both are distinct perceptions. Yesterday I encountered ghosts, and being chased by a tiger in my dream. Then I woke up. I was on my bed. Both were perceptions. But still the latter has some consistency to it. Something is persistent. 
Is -absolute reality is to reality what reality is to dreams? I want to know how people in this forum see these 4 states of being/consciousness.

What is the relationship between these 4 states? How are they related to each other? Why do these 4 states exist? 

Edited August 26, 2019 by Ibn Sina

[Inliytened1]

@Ibn Sina Absolute reality is pure isness which is formless.  The formless is Infinite.  But its like an eye that cannot see itself - so it creates division to experience itself.  It imagines or dreams up divison.  Division is form.  This is your reality currently as the ego.  It is relative and finite.  But you can still imagine up your own stuff.  So the content of your dreams exist within this dream which is reality/duality/form - which exist within Absolute reality/formless/non-duality.

So they are nested within each other with the container being the Absolute.. yet simultaneously all are One.

Here's the kicker..the whole damn thing is You!

You're all that there is and ever will be.

Edited August 26, 2019 by Inliytened1