Can a person live an entire life inside a lie they tell themselves?

This source-based essay from Your Journey to Yourself explores the question: Can a person live an entire life inside a lie they tell themselves? The canonical Hebrew article develops the theme through Torah sources and reflection on everyday life. This localized discovery layer preserves the article’s meaning and identity for natural-language search. It is not presented as a full-body translation and does not introduce new halakhic, medical, psychological, legal, historical, political, scientific, or empirical claims.