The Allegory of the Cave (NoHN)

While reading, I was curious about the allegory of the cave. I've heard this story before, and this time I questioned what is more real; the shadows or the people who cast them. My basic understanding of Plato's ideas about forms is that what the mind can think up is more powerful and more real than the physical manifestation of that object. I know that the idea of forms does not necessarily apply to this, but I wanted to see if its possible to think about the allegory of the cave in this manner.

I think that according to Plato, the slaves thoughts about the shadows were more real than the shadows themselves because their thoughts made it so. However, the issue is that we all know that the shadows are false and are just a representation of the people walking by. Does this make the idea of what the shadows are anymore real or false for the slaves? I don't think so. I think that it's possible to have more than one reality if it is seen through the eyes of different individuals. People can have different thoughts and they can understand their reality in a different way, and if there is an infinite number of forms then perhaps both of the forms, the real and the shadows, could be true and real in their own ways. 

~Ama-Bemma