The same mind that shapes its contents into dreams and visions is called upon to mold the same contents into stories and art. I like to think of creative writing and art as a type of dreaming. A dreaming with artifacts of words and images that others can enjoy (or not). Now, just as not all dreams or dream contents are equal in their profoundness, eccentricity, or transparency, it can also be seen that not all fiction is equal and that even in shallow stories there can be elements of great psychic potency.
The real problem though is in separating cause from effect. Take a quarter from your pocket and flip it. Is the outcome heads because I declared it so? Or did I declare it because it is so? Only the rational mind tries to draw a line of causation. Once you pass down into the contents of the mind and look at the natural processes you will see the universe (and indeed, most of your mind) does not declare a cause and effect relationship and still functions beautifully.
To go back to Morrison's The Invisibles. Dreams contain the dreamer in one form or many and The Invisibles contained Morrison. Morrison identified and objectified the contents of his mind which were also the dreamer (at some level the dreamer realizes subject and object divisions are illusion... I Am That). Through extraordinary circumstances he became aware his life was mirroring the "Story". Morrison decided it is heads because he wrote it heads and not the other way around. Through a conscious act he began to shape the elements to suit his needs. I would be interested in seeing what results other people have doing the same thing.
"It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon."
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