I sense at times that we exist in boxes within boxes, prisons within prisons. This is the fundamental Hindu intuition, that there are levels of consciousness, which is to say there are also levels of ignorance. To be ignorant is to be confined in your behavior and awareness. This is, functionally, a prison, since the only purpose of a prison is to limit your physical motion.
Some years ago, I read with interest what was effectively a long essay by Doris Lessing, titled “Prisons we choose to live within”, and found it both instructive and entertaining. You may as well.