The world is no more real than a movie. But that doesn’t mean I have to ruin the movie.
I’m experiencing something that isn’t real and believing for a moment that it is. That’s the fun of it. There’s no harm in that. Unless there is.
It wouldn’t do anyone any good to be very happy watching a movie and having me standing over their shoulder going, “Nope. It’s not real. Nothing you’re seeing is actually happening. That guy is just an actor. It’s just camera tricks.”
When I’m watching a movie, I want to be immersed in it. I want to suspend my disbelief and get carried away. I don’t want to be woken up to reality (at least until it’s over). If I had someone over my shoulder constantly shaking me out of the movie with, “Not real!” declarations, it would become very annoying very quickly.
But if I’m troubled by what I’m seeing in the movie and I believe it to be real, I can be very grateful for someone helping me to recognize that I’ve been playing in my imagination the whole time and that the things I was troubled by don’t actually exist.