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Believe it or not most people have this little quirk in their personality which makes them wonder if they are somehow missing out on something.  This is the reason that thousands of people are drawn to religions or to cults.

Part of what they’re saying is right.  Your mind does build up an image of reality based upon ideas (or memes) which may or may not be true.  To take one example, depressed people have a false image of themselves because they put too much emotional stock in negative things that happen to them, and not enough in the positive things that happen.  So a depressed person would benefit from “cleansing” that negative image a little bit, wouldn’t he?  That’s not to say that EVERYTHING in your head is false.