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What's important here IMO is that every act of consciousness is a form of virtual reality. From our sense organs to our mental processing, we're actually incredibly removed from 'actual' reality.

Anatta is usually translated as "No self" and has probably lead more people astray than any other mistranslation. Anatta, like anicca is a negation. It negates the world "Atta" which as a noun means "essence" and as a verb means "control".

Together they mean to control something by understanding it. E.g. if you understand the True Name of something, you have power over it.

Anatta means to understand that In the Beginning, there were no names. Meaning that there's no such thing as True Naming something.

It's like playing with a fake steering wheel and thinking we're driving. Either we self delude and match our movements to the outside world, or we angrily try to steer away from what we don't like ineffectively.

Believing we can True Name ourselves and that "I" am suffering is a way of amassing suffering into a container. The container feels a victim. This is b/c we 'obviously' have ownership over ourselves and 'should' be in control of ourselves.

Another form of this mistake is believing that you've penetrated to the real essence of something, creating for yourself a prior that is non-updateable by sense data.

Nibbana or nirvana is often interpreted as a state of perpetual bliss but is better translated as "Cooling Down." The opposite of a tense, effortful, clenching up. It is the opposite of Tanha.