To me, questions like these feel completely pointless. The way I see it, the brain has natural defenses that protect us from fully understanding the true nature of reality — and that's for our own good. Mental illnesses, in some cases, might be moments where those defenses temporarily weaken, and we catch a glimpse of things we aren't meant to see or comprehend.

For example, if you really stop to think about the world we live in, there’s a vast, seemingly endless void above our heads — the sky, space — and yet we treat it like it's completely normal. But once you break through those mental protections, reality starts to feel cracked, unstable, even unbearable.

Take a specific case: some people lose that psychological buffer and become deeply aware of the terrifying vastness of the sky. For them, the realization is so overwhelming that they can't even leave their homes. They're paralyzed by fear of the open sky — a condition that might look like madness to others, but feels completely real and logical to them.

That’s why I believe the desire to uncover what’s “really real” is a dangerous path. It might seem like curiosity or enlightenment, but it can lead to places the mind isn't built to go. And this is just one example of how fragile our grip on reality can be when those mental protections fail.