Ok, let's get metalphysical here for a bit:

If I hit my thumb with a 5lb mash hammer it hurts: at that instant it is all the 'reality' of my 'universe' - and I wish it would time dilate and go away!

Note: for anyone that has never tried the afore-mentioned real life experiment I can assure them that the pain is excrutiating to the point of black out. Thought-boxes are all very well but the world we touch and know is one of joy, pain, love, hate and the perception of a cosmos that is at one awesome and comforting. It will be a sorry day when the last mystery is finally resolved for we will cease to question and function as intelligent beings. My own universe is boundless and includes you, how can yours be less so?

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