Don't get confused by simple words such as "real". It means what it obviously mean in everyday life.

For instance, apples are real, and gravity is real. So when you drop an apple, what happens? It falls. Now what really, ultimately happens? It falls.

Once in Hawaii, at a meeting of philosophers sitting around a table discussing reality, several days passed and Suzuki said nothing. And finally the chairman said, "You've been silent all this time. Would you say something about reality." And Suzuki didn't say anything. I think he may have looked up. Finally the man said, "Well, is this table real?" And Suzuki said, "Yes." And then the man said, "In what sense is it real?" And Suzuki said, "In every sense."

Recently, there was a paper talking about this aspect of quantum theory - http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1111.3328 ... well, it was "recently" and fresh in my mind, but it appears to be back in 2011 :)