I think you are mainly talking about perceptions and preferences of reality, not about reality 'as such'. In my definition of 'expanding consciousness' I was merely talking about empirically detectable stuff. I think emotions don't fall under this category, so what you're saying could be perfectly correct imo. To give a stupid example of what I mean, the speed of light is 299 792 458 m/s, regardless of my subjective experiences. When I take drugs, I could maybe get the impression that speed of light is actually less or more (yeah ok...should find a better example...). However, that would just be a subjective experience which has no empirical value.
@ eudaimonia: I think those kind of "matrix"-approaches to reality are flawed. The best proof that those philosophers do not actually believe in their theories is the fact that "they'd have to doubt the effectiveness of using objective syntax, phonological, and morphological rules of the language that they use. Obviously, they don't doubt that effectiveness, leading them to write their arguments about the subjectivity of reality completely oblivious of the fact that they are dependent on the objectivity of human language to tell anyone else about it!"
(quoted out of this thread: http://freedomainradio.com/BOARD/forums/p/21033/166144.aspx)