A quantum awareness jump! Wow.
It does sound like a good sort of thing, even if scary.
Not sure what your dream exactly was, and why those than know you were telling you it's unrealistic. Sometimes our friends in their best intentioned attempts to keep us grounded are setting out to clip our wings.
I am remembering a saying that may apply to you. It was about another creative bunch, writers. There are people who want to write, and there are people who want to be writers. There is a profound difference between the two. Guess who ends up being a great writer?
I wonder if along with your quantum shift, your dream is morphing itself from wanting to be like someone to a different expression. Maybe your dream is dying the way the caterpillar must die to be reborn as a butterfly?
So, keep on rocking