Husserl said the way to understand reality is to stop asking if it's real

Edmund Husserl's phenomenology asks you to "bracket" or suspend judgment about whether the external world actually exists, and instead describe experience exactly as it appears to consciousness, moment by moment. He called this suspension the epoche, a deliberate step back from assumption toward pure description. The method aimed to put philosophy on as rigorous a footing as science, by examining the structure of experience itself rather than theorizing about what lies behind it.

— Edmund Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology — 1913