Our sense of reality is not a fact. Instead, it’s rooted in probability. Our sense of reality is either more probable to be true or less probable on a spectrum.
For instance, your sense of reality could have a 75% probability of being true. This also means that you have a 25% chance that you could be wrong about some version of your reality. To improve our probability of interpreting the world more accurately, people use a variety of tools such as therapy, creating safe spaces to learn, journaling, weight training, and meditation. These tools give us the capacity us to step back to be less reactive and ask how accurate our reality is.
Bessel Van Der Kolk, Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University, explores this topic in his book “The Body Keeps Score” reviews 6 approaches to healing trauma.