Your post about the conception of our universe reminded me of the statement "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" How much of our lives can we credit with psychological invent? Certainly mentally impaired individuals have a different reality they experience on a daily basis. Furthermore, people under the influence of narcotics or hallucinogens vehemently insist their experiences are reality. Who is to say what is true then. This also reminds me of the constant conundrum I consider in regards to recognition of colors. While we can say the ink is black, we can never know if we all have the same color in mind or to the same shade or degree.
I also agree that it is absolutely frightening to think that all we experience or interact with are formations made by our mind. Are our experiences half reality half constructs? One thing is for certain, we will never definitively know. If you ever lie (don't recommend it) and perpetuate the lie so its validity becomes skewed to you, have you voluntarily contributed to this fallacy?
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