I've had trouble following this thread in that I don't know what reality is. My senses give me a version of reality refined over eons to be useful to survival, but that is only an abstraction of reality. For instance, I have no direct perception of electrons but electrons and their orbits define chemistry which defines our very being, including thought processes. I think thoughts (pace!) are real since they can effect changes in the external world but they too are abstractions.
So there is a representation of reality provided by my senses, another provided by thoughts and imagination, another by photons impinging on a sensor other than my retina and on and on.
Which representation is more real? I suppose I could choose the one from my senses, since I share that with other human but that would only be a convention.
I apologize for being sentitious; I was up very late.
Regards,
Dale