I wish that people wouldn't discount the value of our internal lives, just because they aren't "real". I feel like that limits our ability to understand ourselves, and it keeps us from acknowledging our limitations. If our internal worlds aren't real, that means that they're infinitely malleable, and if they're infinitely malleable, that means that there's nothing stopping us from being perfect, at least by the standards of the world we live in. But that's not how it works. Our internal lives might not be perfect, but their still held back by the bodies their trapped in, just like our "real" lives are bound by the society we live in and society is bound by the physics of the Universe. We at least acknowledge that we can't be perfect, but too many people say that we need to push to be "better", to fit into the world as a hand would a glove. That works if the world was built for people like you, but surely we've seen plenty of proof that the world can't be built for everyone, and there are those around whom it shouldn't be built at all