Real?

Hi

You will probably get a few more blogular posts this week, because I'm on holiday and have nothing to do. All work completed for once!
Now this is a question asked many times by many people, serious or otherwise. What is real? Now of course this may sound like a simple question at first,third and thirty third glance but is one I believe as a complex answer.
Of course there is many people reading this who will say that it's obvious and define real as what we can smell,taste,feel ,see and touch. Yet it's not that simple is it because under that definition real is just electrical signals interpreted by your brain and neurons. And as you know your brain can be confused, by tricks of the eye and so on. Which tells me at least we can't certainly tell what is real and what is not. Much like in a modern film it is near impossible to tell what is real and what is CGI.
Which does pose yet another more intriguing question. Are we ourslelves real? This is a question that is grappled with by philosophers, which is something I am not. But it is a thought provoking question to anyone and everyone. If you think about it more and more, one it makes your head hurt and, two it makes you question every aspect of reiality. For a start what would be the point it aquiring money, if your aquiring something that itself is not real to buy things which are still not real!
This question also as a question within itself. Why are we here and what are we here for? If where not real in the sense of the senses whats the point of us? Are we perhaps some sort of virtual video game for a higher civalisation. Like a version of spore or sims.
Of course the simple answer to all these questions could be, that there all rubbish a product of a over active mind and, we are in fact totaly real and in no way virtual. And as I have said that would be the simple answer, which in most cases is the correct one.

Kyle