Reddit mentions of Fabric Of Reality (Penguin Science)

Exactly! Just because it's happening in your head doesn't mean it isn't real (after all, you're happening in your head too).

There was a fascinating article about this I read not long ago that discussed this very topic in relationship to voices people hear in their heads unrelated to drugs. It's talking about hallucinated voices, but it applies here as well:

> The second step is to understand that hallucinated voices are as real as just about anything. They aren’t what they purport to be — sounds coming from the external world — but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

> Let’s count the many ways that hallucinated voices are real:

> They are real neurological patterns that exist in real human brains.
> They are subjectively real. The listener actually hears them.
> They satisfy the criterion for reality put forward by David Deutsch in his book The Fabric of Reality: they kick back. You can read the whole argument here.
> They have metaphorical reality. We can reason about the voices the same way we talk about a movie with our friends (discussing the characters’ motivations, their moral worth, etc.).
> * They have real intelligence — because (this is crucial) they’re the products of a bona fide intelligent process. They’re emanating from the same gray matter that we use to perceive the world, make plans, string words together into sentences, etc. The voices talk, say intelligent things, make observations that the hearer might not have noticed, and have personalities (stubborn, encouraging, nasty, etc.). They are, above all, the kinds of things toward which we can take the intentional stance — treating them like agents with motivations, beliefs, and goals. They are things to be reasoned with, placated, ignored, or subverted, but not things whose existence is to be denied.

So are DMT entities "real"? I say yes, just not in the way some people want them to be real.