Reality is not what you think it is.
Reality is exactly what you think it is.
The contradictions only exist from specific perspectives.
This is an example.

There is nothing that is not "real".  It all exists.
But what you interpret it to be may not be what it is.
That's what all illusions are.
Our mind interprets it as something it is not.
Yet that interpretation itself is real.
Reality is not what you think it is.
Reality is exactly what you think it is.