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I feel as though last week in our reality discussion I may have been confused or misunderstood by what we meant by "reality".  So, I will try to re-explain how I see this.  I will begin with the tree falling in the woods analogy.  Okay, there is no eardrum to hear the vibrations that the fall produces.  But the truth is that the tree still fell even though there was no one around to see or hear it, it was displaced from its previous position.  And, in this tree to be displaced from its previous positions, vibrations would have been emitted.  Maybe the tree falling does not produce sound (as we know it) but a phenomenon occured.  This is how I see reality.  The occurence of a phenomenon does not need a human.  Things happen whether or not a human is there to see, hear, taste, touch, or smell it.  For the idea about color, I understand that color (again, as we know it) is a construction, but objects, whether or not there is a human to "see" them, these objects are still emitting light of a certain wavelength, and that is reality.  I hope I have done an adequate job of articulating myself, sometimes I have trouble.