I had a similar 'epiphany' a year ago, so I know exactly what you mean. In my case, I thought of it as sun or any light source, and in terms of the electromagnetic waves. We are in this ocean of electromagnetic waves and with a little bit of effort (like flipping one's perspective in a optical illusion image) I can reinterpret everything I see as 'just' spherically symmetric waves emitting from sources that are caught and trapped by molecules in my eye (and then interpreted by my brain as others are pointing out in the comments so far).
To elaborate, what was most interesting about the perspective was that I realized that while I wasn't directly interacting with the objects, we were causally entangled (and thus interacting indirectly) via these electromagnetic waves. The perspective paid rent, in some sense, in that now I had a much better understanding of light scattering in general (and different kinds of mirages specifically) and I found it amazing that this kind of interference doesn't happen more often. We are literally in a bath of these EM waves (the ones that I can see) and they a...
An insight I had a while ago:
When I'm out in the daylight, and I see a tree, what I actually see is not the tree itself. What I see is the sun reflected off the tree. Likewise with rocks, grass and birds: it's always the sun I'm seeing reflected off them. This is possible because the sun emits all visible colors (or rather, our eyes evolved to perceive almost all EM frequencies that almost all solid matter deflects). I'm not seeing the things. I'm seeing the light. We live surrounded by the sun.
Is this too obvious? Inconsequential? Redundant?