[djf]

There is a great deal of evidence, and more accumulating in the Quantum world, that we somehow create and maintain our own realities of sorts.
It is even possible that reality is not an absolute, and that multiple people can have different ones.

[bvw]

Hmmm. Optimism and Fealty are survival mechanisms in the transition from Schroedinger's infintity of superpositions to Planck's quantas of perceived existance. Chose life.