Perhaps jumping to the conclusion that the government is behind it might be a little bit paranoid (but as they say, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean no one is chasing you).
As some physicists have suggested, we might be living in a simulation such that nothing is real and everything is imagined.
I know you are familiar with the work of John Mack.
He argued in his final book “Passport to the Cosmos” that our rigid categories of real physical stuff vs dreamed stuff vs hallucinated stuff were arbitrary and that our lived experiences were a mixture of all of the above....