The problem is when you base everything on 1 untrue assumption. Instead of treating the Bible like a story with morals, they believe it's all 100% literal. And they're like "abortion is murder because in a 2000 year old book God spoke to an unborn child for 5 seconds." And then they use that logic to end up doing all sorts of weird stuff like protest clinics, or charge women with a crime for crossing state lines.

The things that "look real but aren't" are real. They're real things that are not what you thought they were.

Kid, you need to get off the AI chat bots.

Things that are authentically real are good.

Things that look real that aren't, but never try to convince you they are real, are fine and can be quite thoughtful. This is where suspension of disbelief comes into play for works of fiction.

Something that looks real, presents itself as authentic, but isn't.. these things infuriate me because the context of it being real is often solely what would make it interesting.

I appreciate digesting accurate information, I can suspend disbelief for tasteful media. I cannot entertain for a second 90% of the internet where content is constantly trying to present itself as authentic, and competes for attention, but is entirely scripted fiction.

For me, how the information, story, or content presents itself is very important when consuming it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

You're asking questions that have been asked for a very long time, my dude. What is the nature of reality? Is there objective truth? How much of what I experience is truly real and how much is an illusion created by my brain?

There are no easy answers. Keep searching, for there is meaning in the search.

Yup. The crushing weight of the meaningless of everything is something the human brain, society, and religions has evolved to studiously avoid.

We are able to navigate the world pretty well with our head full of fictions, and it is only occasionally when reality will give us a challenge, which we can accept, ignore, or accomodate.

Then there's the psychological extremes to experience. Derealization and depersonalization are when people feel like they are characters in a video game, just following rules in an artificially constructed landscape. This sensation can be caused by trauma, but it can also be caused by existential unmooring. I think the general phenomenological category is "disassociation," if you want to look into it.

I also recommend Britt Hartley's YouTube Channel, No Nonsense Spirituality, since she had a psychotic break on her way through religious deconstruction and talks about intimately grappling with the nature of reality.