In sanscrit this is called chid vevarta, chin maya. Chid weper vevarta means appearance of consciousness. Objects appear to you, the consciousness. But if you think they are appearing in consciousness, why do i meet? What do i say in objects appear to consciousness? It's not difficult to understand. That's how we understand life. Things are appearing to me. Even mine is appearing to consciousness. And from consciousness perspective, just like in a dream, all things appear in the dream,. Although they seem to be outside you, ultimately you realize they are all in me, the dreaming mind. They are all in consciousness. Every bit of it is nothing
"The objects of knowledge, viz., sound, touch, etc., which are perceived in the waking state, are different from each other because of their peculiarities; but the consciousness of these, which is different from them, does not differ because of its homogeneity." Inspired by this verse from the book, Pancadasi by Vidyaranya (Ch 1, Verse 3), Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a discourse on direct path of Advaita Vedanta.