reality isn't as real as you might think. When you think something is real, doesn't that make it real for you. This question sounds like it is born from a need to understand consciousness. That makes me giggle a little, because using thought to delineate consciousness doesn't work to well. How can one think about something, and extract any sense of "real" from that. It's just a thought. A thought isn't even real once it is enacted as an action. Is a balloon still a balloon if you don't know to call it that? What would it be without it's name? What would you call it? That could be more real than what you have been told it is. What if a balloon wanted to be called a Greep? But people didn't like that name, so they called it a balloon, ignoring its pleas to be heard as a Greep. LOL! This is fun.