Answer:
I am essential to life on earth! I am split into thirds. Two thirds are the same. One of the thirds is 8. The other two are 1 each.
I am constantly overlooked by everyone but everyone has me.
So simple, that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
I may seem real but it always turns out I was never there in the first place... you only see me during a certain resting stage.
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.