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>>20003005
The 'sun' isn't external reality but the unconscious mind.
I think of it similar to how high level programming languages like Visual Basic or Java abstract the hardware. Visual Basic is a 'shadow', but assembly is a direct reflection of the sun on the surface. You can observe this abstraction/shadowing at work in the way we describe our own cognition. We say "Oh that reminds me! Lucy bought a car." we don't say something like "the mention of Julie has primed me to think of other names that start with a 'J' sound and I recently encoded into memory a conversation with John who during that conversation was updating me on his partner Lucy's search for a new car" which itself is an abstraction of hundreds of little brain processes.
Now all those words we use, including the ones that make this sentence, as of course abstractions. If I explained to you my thoughts using some kind of 'Private Language' it'd be as lost on you as if the prisoner tried to describe what he saw on the surface. However this failure of communication also happens within our own minds. It is why unconscious thoughts, motivations are obscure to us. Why we have 'lightbulb moments' where seemingly things make sense all at once. Why we have words on the tip of our tongue.
This makes much more sense when you remember how the brain processes raw sensory data.