原来我刚才一直就在幻觉里
“So I've been in a hallucination this whole time.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这一切都是幻觉
“This is all a hallucination.”
原来 我 刚 才一直 就 在幻觉里
“So I've been in a hallucination this whole time.”
“That foreigner never followed me.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In spoken narratives, '原来' serves as an indispensable cognitive turning point, showing the transition from confusion to sudden clarity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
all along just now / the whole time earlier
Combines temporal proximity '刚才' with continuous duration '一直' to describe unbroken past states.
in a hallucination / hallucinating
Literally 'inside an illusion', used idiomatically to describe being deceived by one's senses.
Spatial postposition indicating containment inside a state or illusion.