People need things to latch onto, to believe. Growing up bombarded by this nonsense, are you at all shocked that people believe it? Did you ever believe it? All we have are beliefs as it's very difficult to see beyond something. So, we latch on hoping that this ship were on isn't going to sink and that everything contained inside it is real. Of course, that isn't true. Reality doesn't really exist as a concrete thing. Something you can say is real because when you see what is real, you'd find out that it's really just everything and nothing all at once. Dunno if that last part made sense