Is it possible that you see the world the way you want it to be?  What about aspects of the world about which you can have no direct perception; things such as the atoms and molecules you are made of?

You only know of this level of reality because other people tell you it exists.  You have no direct experience of it.  You can learn through studying or reading or listening to people, that there are processes going on in your body that change the food you eat into a different form through the breaking up and reorganising of molecules.  Whether you know it or not, such things on and are the basis for life.

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