Freedom Fallacies

Right at this moment, I have a sudden feeling of freedom.
Freedom implies the absence of limitations, a loss of barriers. So if it's a loss, it should be painful.
The sudden disappearance of sweet protective coating that made us not have to think about possibilities that were impossible, this should be painful, as some of those limitations were our own creations. Like a dam breaking, a simultaneous invasion of a dangerous substance happens. Here, dangerous possibilities. Feeling really free would be like winning the lottery, bringing too many possibilities, some of them harmful and tempting.

The delight that we associate with freedom must thus be usually a feeling of power within our own space, a feeling that we can do more with what we have, a circumscribed reevaluation, an energy inside our sphere. Not a true freedom. Is the key to hunt those invented limitations to look for the pain behind the "what-if" of their dismissal? And then to accept that pain, to master the resulting flow.

There probably are many other fake feelings, that disguise themselves and trick us.

Interestingly, the value and sense of a limitation exist only/mostly by the danger it protects: when the dam breaks, people get focused on the water getting in, they think "water is coming!" and not "the dam is broken!", yet there is a minimum value we attach to the barrier, but don't feel it and don't even have time to feel the loss of it. I'm wondering is there are examples of barriers we create that have a strong intrinsic value, that perhaps we hold on to even though there are no dangers, e.g. a golden dam protecting us from nothing. Like a crazy person afraid to go outside their zone, pretending there are dangerous animals, holding on to their own mirages.