Check out nonduality. It’s amusing that we insist that consciousness, which we experience firsthand, must be created by matter, which we experience indirectly. The image creating the screen.

Yes. The only way to solve the riddle is to accept that everything comes from Consciousness.

People have proposed the idea that consciousness is the building block of the universe and not matter. See Itzhak Bentovs book Stalking The Wild Pendulum.

Panpsychism is the term.

For usage in popular fiction & fun reading, take a deep dive into the lore of The Elder Scrolls, especially Morrowind-era content. In short, the universe is dreamed up by The Dreamer, and thus by definition is made of consciousness. Interesting consequences ensue as a result, especially for the few bits of consciousness (people) that become "lucid" within the dream.

This was all inspired of course by some parts of Hinduism if I remember correctly.

Consciousness is not a material phenomenon anyways. To me it seems plausible that consciousness and matter are produced by the same code.