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Maybe there aren't any "sources of the shadows"? Maybe "Ambiguity and uncertainty are not ... the ripples of the imperfect glass through which the brain tries to perceive reality. They are instead the fundamental "reality", both the grist and the tool by which the brain (and, hence, all humans, you and I among them)" constructs its "reality". In this case, there is indeed "more than one reality", or at least more than one world ....

"In what important but often neglected sense are there many worlds?" asked the philosopher Nelson Goodman. Maybe philosophy is not irrelevant to thinking about mental health? Would we think and act differently in re mental health if we discarded the presumption that "reality" is out there, and imagined instead that "reality" is no more (and no less) than the commonalities we have so far been able to find in the different pictures/worlds we each have in our brains?

Are psychologist currently actually "trained to see all different perceptions"? Neurologists? Psychiatrists? Social workers? Could they be? Should they be? What would the task of mental health workers be if we took the many worlds view seriously? Would it eliminate any need/effort to alter individual worlds or give new motivations, suggest new methods for doing so?