How do I know whats real?

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I've fought delusional thinking since I was 17. But now I need some insight.
Dispite everything, I've felt blessed because my autism seemed to keep the schizophrenia at bay for the most part. I've had to rebuild my life many times, but I've always believed that it could have been much worse. But a delusion has me in a bad place. How, logically, do you prove that you didn't die and are some purgatory. In 2009 I was out of control and after 72 hours of illegal drug use I ended up in a park next to the ocean and intercoastal (south florida btw). One minute ( around 6pm) I was sitting on the intercoastal wall, and then I regained conscious and was floating in the water in the dark. How can I believe that I floated for over 3 hours unconscious in the water? I died and this is purgatory. Please, I need a logical response.

No worries, this delusion does not control my actions or thinking nor will it cause me any issues if I cannot refute it. After all, I react to outside stimuli, does it matter if that stimulus is based in reality or not? As long as it follows rational rule-sets, my actions will be consistent. I was just wondering if anyone had some insight or logical refute that I could use to disprove this belief?

i am alive and well. you are communicating in my domain. you are probably not in purgatory.

Purgatory could be so much worse

How do you know you were floating the whole time? Maybe you passed out on the wall and woke up when you fell in or shortly afterward.

Lol It's not that it's bad, I just don't like having delusions that I cannot resist through logic. For instance, the one where my biological father was a member of some international cabal experimenting on their children to create a super race and i'm a failed experiment. That's fairly easy to knock down with logic and so it rarely impacts my behavior unless i'm in a psychotic break. This whole I've died and this is some sort of afterlife really freaks me out at times. And the worst is when I experience hallucinations that seem to reinforce this thinking. I am constantly seeing through breaks in reality, like the world around me is just a picture painted on a thin canvas and if I focus too much on it, it starts to waiver. I don't like when that happens since I also start to see shadowy figures out of the corners of my eyes just watching me (kinda like angels are supposed to do).

Irrational numbers.

The existence of irrational numbers could not be possible in a holographic universe or one programmed by computer.r

You are communicated with me in my universe and in my real universe irrational numbers exist.

Yes, but there are no provable theorems regarding infinte irrational numbers. In any case, if any proof existed, it would only be relevant to a simulation explanation theory. The idea of a 2d holigraphic universe fits quite nicely with brane m-theory. And would not be invalidated by any theory presented by irrational numbers.

Hmm, I think my inner geek is showing.