It's amazing how seductive naive realism is as a viewpoint.
People will literally make up new standards of objectivity to avoid facing truth.
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Neuroscientists painstakingly belabor how all your experiences are mediated and you're just a brain in a box with a nervous system in tow.
But ordinary everyday experience is totally real and "altered states" totally not in any sense real unless vetted by the proper authorities.
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Quantum mechanics upends any number of basic assumptions about time, matter, etc.
But it feels safer to pretend that classical mechanics is how the world really works.
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Was talking to and she was pointing out how often it's taken as a default that any exceptional state or experience is "in your head", unlike all that other stuff.
As far as any kind of objective standard goes, it's ALL "in your head". There's nothing else.
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But these explanations always and only show up when people are dealing with experiences that scare them.
It's when evidence challenges your comfortable illusions that things suddenly become relegated to this special exempt status of being just in your head and (thus not real).
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That literature has literally always had a handle on this is another uncomfortable truth. Ezekiel (and the romantics, to pick two far apart) are as far ahead of the realist camp as Shakespeare is ahead of the practice of psychology.