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human
that depends on a lot of things. i'm not an expert, but i like to pretend i have at least some understanding of this sort of stuff. ok, here goes
1) a lot of your reality is based on perception. you take 3 people to the mall - an artist, a shopaholic, and a depressed person. the artist will look around, and see the form/gesture of people shopping, the shape of the mall, etc through an 'artistic lens.' the shopper will look around and see all the opportunity to buy new things. the depressed person will see kids running around, couples holding hands, and think 'why on earth are they happy? don't they know how bad it is?'
they're at the same mall, at the same time. which lens they see it is how the reality of that experience is to them.
or, just look at pictures of a kids birthday party. it looks incredibly boring, right? but for the kids, it was the most exciting thing ever.

so, what's the basis of that? it's really just an abstraction of the material that you create. just like how your ego is an abstraction of who you are/how you see yourself. the problem is putting too much weight into this material world.
to butcher that science saying 'matter can't be created or destroyed' - so, you could argue that you have the same amount of 'stuff' at all times (metaphorically). so, a person who constantly thinks about how 'if i just had 1000 more dollars, my life would work out' - will always be in a state of not having enough. where, a person who thinks, 'i have everything i need, in fact, i might have more than enough!' will always be in a state of abundance.
gpt
so, you realize, this 3d existence might not cut it, and is only temporary. So, what about other people? ideas? well, ideas surely are more permanent, right? but what about people? someones personality is 'just an idea' - so they must be permanent too? the problem is that, ideas are malleable too, and never last. you have one idea, then the next one comes along, and the next one. if you put all of your weight into that, you may find yourself more lost than before, always chasing after the next thought. thoughts, ideas, and even people are like a shadow cast by 4d - it's only temporary. you don't always think of the same concept, you don't always see the same side of a person. so, you might start to think 'well, what if there's only bad in that? what if there's only good?' - it's not getting the full picture.
when you move beyond that, what's left? Just Truth.
not to get all christian preachy since I probably have the worst understanding of that and the Bible and stuff - but, a lot of the idea is to not get hung up or attached to the physical/material world. it detracts from the eternal, and eternity might be the closest thing to 'true' there is.
so, if you have that in mind, and see each moment as a brief look at eternity, you might be able to see that it's not that bad.
i hope this makes sense.
human
clearing up (hopefully)
even latching onto people/ideas which may feel 'above' the material, really makes you trapped by them as well, to the point of torturing you. like those people obsessed with an idea or other person, rather than letting them flow freely.
so, even though an idea or abstraction of thinking 'the world is hell' can be a good mind exercise to think, becoming obsessed with that perception will cause you to only see the world as hell.
instead, you should think 'in what ways is the world like hell?' then, find that out, and decide on what you can change or what can be changed to make it not like hell. so that way, you don't keep going back to that initial question.
by noticing the good/improvements, you'll start noticing more and more and more of that. similar to when you buy a new car, you start seeing that model of car everywhere even though it may have never stood out to you before.