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Im always surprised when people ask this question that they haven't read The Cave by Plato.

This has been asked for thousands of years and its a great question. I think the answer which has been posed by many great thinkers and artists is often condensed down to :

The only reality that matters is the one you are in right now. Any higher reality, which you cannot access, essentially does not exist in any meaningful way to you.




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