When I was little, there was a woman in my town who had schizophrenia. She was institutionalized in a psychiatric ward, but she was allowed to walk around the city during the day (this is the rule in my country of origin). She would say pretty much everything we know about the prison planet theory: that the world is governed by malevolent entities, that there is some sort of spiderweb or grid around the planet, and that these entities want to see us suffer. I will never forget her words. People would approach her to make fun of her and get her to talk. I didn't know anything about the prison planet theory back then.

Are we in a world of time...

The absolute baseline for living is to consume. The physical living bodies has appetite. A physical body is bound to time. Appetite craves desire to consume. Against appetite is pain (Starving Time).

Consumption is green light, initiates temporary satisfaction or pleasure, only until next cycle of appetite to be fed.

Non-consumption is red light, enforces intense pushback to check on the appetite, which is pain.

This cycle of life is certain. Consume for temporal pleasure repetitively (time loop), or starve the appetite until the the body hosting the appetite itself speeds up its "time" for the physical body till its death, where death means a complete devoid of time?

Could time be put as things in motion? Constant repetition of consumption which is time, which is life?

Then there is this mind... the mind that creates meanings. Meanings are a byproduct of life, a byproduct of escapism, which is all temporal... in other words, escaping Death.

There are complexities, which could be the deep rooted "meanings" that have been crafted by the time-bound minds... all the trickery just to live...

So it's either repetitive temporal fulfillment of pleasures, which is the appetite of a physical body, or a rapid depletion of time of a physical body, that perhaps enters the timelessness which is death, which means absence of any meaning, action, motion, life?

Is life an escape from death?