Does anyone ever feel like people are only half-awake?

Its like we are only truly capable of being half of ourselves...We have our body, the person we look at each day in the mirror and then we have our true self whom can't really be defined by an image or phrase. Yet, we seem to let people define us by how we look all the time, and how we look and act are what determine our fates. Its like our bodies are prisons for our minds imagination in a sense. We are all the same when you strip us down and reduce us to our core. We all just want to live in happiness and i think people get mixed up along the way in human affairs, like becoming wealthy, or popular, or good looking, or a great singer because they come easy to them, they don't just enjoy the simple beauty of life because they think this is all there is so they better hurry quick and take advantage of what god or whoever gave them.. but you see sad people always brooding about their past, contained by their failures as humans.... Wouldn't life be better if we all just assumed when we die there's a much better place than this..where our minds can just wonder and our imaginations would create our reality.... or is that just selfish to think? Its like we could all live in peace if we just gave up who we are. I'm not saying for everyone to just up and quit everything but to just understand thats not what's gonna define them in the end. Its what you do, and how you sacrifice your wants for others, its being an individual through everyone becoming individuals. Not wanting everyone to worship the same god, or want the same fashion sense, or whats beautiful, because everything is truly a unique piece of art yet people who believe things just end take what they have for granted, they die, and are contained by what they had, and failed to see. I just wish people would wake up! there's an opposite to everything in this world, black and white. We as humans experience both, and how we let either side affect us determines who we are and our ultimate fate. Either all black, material urges, selfishness, down...or towards white, spiritual urges, selflessness, up...towards the mind by leaving the body behind.