A similar example from this world would be what the rabbis said about Moses’ burial place: to those standing below, it would appear as if it were above, but to those above, it would appear as if it were below (Sotah 14a).
The same principle applies in all the exalted visions of prophecy. They may take all kinds of different forms and change literally from moment to moment, as in a dream – for all these phenomena are found in dreams. Similarly, many other apparent contradictions in the writings of the ARI are not really contradictions at all. For in truth, what the prophet sees appears in both ways even at one and the same time, as in the case of a dream.