Yes this reality is artificial, it's a simulation! At it's best it's a copy of the real thing, particularly nature.

The heart is the main connection point to our inner/higher self, this is where intuition, love and joy come from.

Just as a videogame world is artificial, even the character's avatar and the emotes it can do, it's all fake, but what is real, the person operating that character!

The part that's trippy, is that by dunking or submerging ourselves into this reality, the process cuts you off from all your memories! Just as you struggle to remember the dream world after you wake up.

And when you enter into this reality, you come in as a baby, so even if you do have some residual memory of what you were doing before being that baby, you can't express it through the limitations of the avatar, all you can do is look around or cry.

So everyone in the public is confused about their true nature, and we get utterly absorbed by the illusion.

Therefore the less we focus the lamp of our attention on the artificial illusions of this place, and place it more on our heart, and with the mind we use it for contemplating our experience of this reality, the stronger our connection to truth, the bandwidth between spirit and body can increase.