The protagonist of the unfolding life is contained in the unfolding life and is distinct from the experiencer. The experiencer cannot appear within the experience but so much of the intensity of the experiencing arises from the will to anchor the experiencer in the experienced phenomena. This ought to be simple, when clearly see it should be the simplest of distinctions, but everything works to obfuscate this understanding. You want to see it but at the same time you don't want to see it. You dream that you want to wake up and so you dream harder, but you still want to wake up.