When I say that reality is more "fine-grained" higher up, and each "grain" contains the same amount of reality, it is merely an aid for the imagination. We should not try to identify such grains, of course. My point is that these "grains" only determine the amount of reality, not the FORM. If you go down about as far as a human can reach, to the level of daydream, the forms seem virtually identical to those of our own plane of being. But they have extremely low reality: They are malleable, unstable, and transient. A day hence you may have forgotten all of it.
If however several people share one lower "world", or if you spend a lot of time and interest in one of your own making, it will take on more reality. It will be more permanent, less fluffy, things will stay in place etc. Imbuing a lower world with reality is an act of creation, and this is inherently joyful for creative beings. Since humans are "created in the image of the Creator" (in Judeo-Christian terms) this is actually a natural thing for us to do. However, it is not without its risks.
If we neither receive more reality from above nor give any to lower worlds, then we become stagnant and, in a manner of speaking, dead. But if we lose ourselves in the lower worlds without being replenished from above, we could be dangerously weakened. This seems to happen to many geeks, nerds and otaku. They lose themselves in a "fandom" or some such lower plane, and become unable to endure the harsh light of day in the "real world". In Japan, it is estimated that a million or more otaku (fans of comics, movies and games) have become hikikomori and shut themselves in their rooms for months or years, possibly for life. Their relatives provide them with food, while they spend all their days in imaginary worlds.
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