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Your post made me think about synesthesia, which (according to wikipedia) is a "neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are connected," so you feel a color or taste a sound. This also relates to color blindness and the above discussion of disorders vs. different realities - synesthetes clearly inhabit the same physical world others do, but experience it in a very different way. They experience the universe on a plane totally outside ours, yet have no problems (at least that I know of) navigating and succeeding in this world. I'm not convinced that the presence of different "levels" or "types" of reality is a bad thing. In fact, I wish I could experience them all myself!

I am also questioning the notion that the colors magenta and teal don't exist in the "real" world. Who's to say what's real and what's not? And aren't there flowers and birds and butterflys out there who, some would say, have these colors? Perception is what it seems to always boil down to.