"take on reality" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to mean accept, deal with, or confront something real and tangible. For example, "After spending most of her life avoiding the truth, she finally began to take on reality."
This rather interesting take on reality prompted Moody's to reaffirm the company's A3 debt rating.
As Lowe and Freeman became fast friends, they began to think about the more ritual aspects of America's recreational drug culture, and these fever dreams began to take on reality.
On the lighter side, we take on reality in a piece that wonders if our world is all just one grand simulation.
Dadd's portrait of his doctor is an eerie masterpiece whose take on reality is captivatingly askew.
Denis's approach is to take on reality from a variety of angles – she refracts real experience with a cinematic method that always seeks to conceal more than it reveals.
By the time we get out of kindergarten we have a sneaking suspicion that there is more than one take on reality.
These essays take on "the reality problem," he tells us, the "extraordinary blurring between reality and artifice" made possible by new genres and new technologies.
"When people keep saying something about you even though it's not true, it can start to take on a reality," she said.
He certainly doesn't have any solutions to take on the reality of systemic racism and create more equity and opportunity in communities of color and for every American.
But if they feel a literary impulse to take on political realities — then by all means.
Or as the postmodernist Jean Baudrillard would have put it: "Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality".
