Allow me to put this into extremely simple terms.


When you are about to be struck by a car that strayed onto the sidewalk, you don't cover your eyes and tell yourself cars are an illusion. You also don't cover your eyes and scream that you are a tree. The doctors may be able to make most of the pain disappear, but your injuries will be very real, as far as you are concerned.

You need to acknowledge the car is as real as you are, closing your eyes will not cancel it's existence, and you would be far better off behind an actual tree, as illusory as it may be.