Okay, here's something.
There are three levels of reality, and between them they encompass everything that ever can be.
First, we have the base level. This is probably our reality now, the physical world of things. However, we may be in the second or third layer, and the base lower down. It's impossible to tell. But there is a bottom layer.
Next is the world of things that we can directly imagine, which includes abstract concepts. Many things can be imagined, and they are all in this way real, even if they only exist in a thought, for a thought is as real as anything else. This world is substantially bigger than the base reality, as the number of abstract concepts can be infinite. (If you can imagine a number, you can imagine a higher number, and those numbers exist in this second layer as well. So there is already an infinite number of concepts in it with numbers alone.)
Finally, we come to the world of things we cannot imagine, these being so foreign from our understanding that they could not be comprehended. This is the biggest of the realities, and at first it may seem inaccessible. Do they exist if we cannot ever comprehend or know of them? The solution lies in an interesting sidestep. We cannot imagine them directly, but we can imagine ourselves imagining and comprehending them. Thus they exist without us ever knowing directly what they are.
I do not think there are any more layers. If you think there are, please tell me.
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Perhaps the level where we are imagined? This might be the same as the first one you mentioned. Hopefully the daydreamer doesn't wake up and move to more practical things anytime soon.
Odd.
This level should be below us in the hierarchy of imagining, but the source of the imagination would fit into the template of the unimaginable third level, sort of a recursive "my imaginings are imagining that they imagine me" thing from the perspective of the first imaginer.
pardon my excessive use of "imagine"
I tend to like recursive explanations for things that otherwise recede into infinity, as this sort of would.
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