Usually not, on account of frequently asking with honest reflection and introspection.
In fact I even regularly reality check things. A side effect is general immunity to nightmares, awareness of dreams, and some pretty fun "dream powers" that it's taken a while to work on. If you would like I can lead you to more resources, but really the only thing to it is double checking text occasionally, and other aspects of your surrounding against reality; if you manage to farm up some "dream powers" those are a cheap ticket to awareness, too, because they only work if you are dreaming.
I doubt literally every aspect of my existence and knowledge, or strive to. I will worry at every last seam of weakness in my knowledge with doubt, and will worry at the solid and perfect walls ever after until I decide that it is time for me to be done, and dead, and enjoy watching my adopted children worry at those walls as I have made smooth with the doubt I hand on.
I appreciate this. Not really on topic, but it was the part where you said "It does not erase you to learn your place in the universe is a little more complicated than you thought, amid a wider field than you imagined" that my "That depends. Does said universe exist solely in your head?" statement was directed towards. I imagine that if the world as I see it (not the world itself) is in my head and the way I see it changes, that change in how I see it erases the me who saw it one way and replaces that me with a me that now sees it differently. I would not be able to go back to the less informed me. I mean I could, from the outside saying "WTF was I thinking" but I couldn't possibly be that uninformed me again.
BTW - Welcome to the Gospel's restaurant serving word salad.
Ok now to make the Mods happy and get back on topic. I'll be honest I'm old school & have a limited (purely sexual) understanding of Gay men, lesbians, and folks who like both. I don't mind people doing and believing whatever they want (free world), my only request is don't mistake my ignorance and lack of drive to learn about all this gender stuff for malice. I advise Metaphor to take the same approach. Don't go out of your way by doing some gender-critical reveal nonsense. Just demand your freedom to be ignorant like me.
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“if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be.”
— Thomas Jefferson, January 6, 1816
I don't know what he's talking about