ajp1982

I could be way off here, but here goes.

The elevator theory also works when you look at the original meaning of transcendence: climbing or going beyond - elevating perhaps?

Although the meaning of transcendence has evolved over time, Immanuel Kant (rather unfortunate last name!) maintained that the human self, or transcendental ego, constructs knowledge out of sense impressions and from universal concepts called categories that it imposes upon them.

Sound familiar? "we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather"

I could be grabbing at straws here (im a historian, not a philosopher) but the elevator (if that is what it is) could also be representative of transcendental idealism. Then again I could be reading too much into it.

A.