Reality definitely extends beyond the limitations of the five senses. For instance, ionizing radiation cannot be directly seen, heard, smelled, tastes, nor touched, yet, indirectly, it obviously has life-altering consequences. And, for as simple as reality often times seems, it is immensely complex, such that our human minds can't really understand it in so many ways. That's why we often bicker about what "the truth" really is in so many situations. Usually, there is a seed of truth in the pit of every lie. So, whether it is UFO's or JFK conspiracies or the war in Ukraine, even the craziest ideas out there usually have some uncomfortable fact grounding them somehow. So, believe what your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin tell you above other people's word, but maybe take their word into account and make note of it, since there is a good chance that, ultimately, neither of you are 100% correct about anything.

The reality of being honest with myself, what I think, feel, want and need.

Anyone interested in quantum theory? There are some very interesting things about it that have potentially profound meanings with how we interact with reality simply by observing it.

We have a very limited capability to ascertain reality, as you said the five senses. So our reality is subjective, merely experienced by us. Someone else's, (if blind for example) or another creatures is completely different. However, even quantum physics points to a very different reality to the one we experience, atoms, protons, electrons, neutrons, quarks, popping in and out of existence, down to the very basics of energy vibrating at different levels. Man doesn't even understand what consciousness is. But along with the scientists, the mystics have always spoke of a very different reality beyond being controlled by our thoughts, feelings, and senses, that reality is living in the now, in which our thoughts take us hostage from. Which makes you wonder who is doing the thinking? Mystics don't force to change the self, but to watch it, to learn from it, and in doing so to not be driven or controlled by it, it is here they experience a different reality. A story - there was a salt doll, and one day it came to an enormous expanse of water. And it said to the water, "what are you?" And it says "I am the ocean." And the salt doll says what am I? And the ocean says come into the water and see." So the salt doll Wade's into the ocean, and it dissolves and says "Now I know what I am." Same as the Christians Dark Night of the Soul. There is a different way to live, a freer and less violent way to live. But because man classes being controlled by the senses and desires as normal, the mystic often walks the journey along, for the sake of being attacked for being different, he leaves our way of life and lives in the monasteries or deserted places. I leave this link here it's an easier way to explain https://youtu.be/4-079YIasck?feature=shared