The Echo, and Timelines

[Kallera]

Technically speaking, according to the game world, you never die, you just get knocked out and then your body auto-returns as a defense mechanism.

Two things:

1. so if we use the echo to "look back into our own memories"(like with df runs or the anima's quest's version of the vault) is it kinda of like a lucid dream where we visualize what may happen depending on how we act? and where death/ failure/ eaten by fish is little more than say waking up from a dream? can duty finder play into this?

2. ok, technically we do not die right? What about the passage of time? if we get knocked unconcious or some similar fate happens, wouldn't time keep going? What resets the situation? or, are all df failures "using the echo", and all df successes real?

Yes, I understand there some gameplay story separation involved here. but I'm interested in understanding how using the echo in memories can result in different experiences. it'd be cool if it was like a lucid dream you can tap into.