The worlds and individuals described in fiction actually exist in some sense, and we might be background characters in something that is a fiction from someone/something's perspective.
I believe this because whenever I write fiction, after a brief like calibration period, I never actually feel like I am writing so much as I feel like I am transcribing actions and events I somehow perceive but have no control over.
Each individual is essentially some form of lesser god. Able to create and destroy worlds, people, and universes completely at will.
The power is not total however and we can only sustain the reality as long as we are imagining it. The dream collapses when the dreamer stops dreaming.
You can read it both literally and metaphorically as well if you so chose.
I look at it differently to how you do. As far as I'm concerned the things I write exist regardless of whether or not I actually write them, because like..
I don't describe every individual blade of grass, or every moment in a particular societies history that led to it being the way it is in the 'present', but those blades of grass and historical moments necessarily must exist for that society to exist in it's 'current' form.
Accordingly, since these settings need things I didn't write or imagine to exist in the place, there's no reason the bits I do imagine would cease existence if I stopped imagining them.
The worlds and individuals described in fiction actually exist in some sense, and we might be background characters in something that is a fiction from someone/something's perspective.
I believe this because whenever I write fiction, after a brief like calibration period, I never actually feel like I am writing so much as I feel like I am transcribing actions and events I somehow perceive but have no control over.
I always liked this idea as well.
Each individual is essentially some form of lesser god. Able to create and destroy worlds, people, and universes completely at will.
The power is not total however and we can only sustain the reality as long as we are imagining it. The dream collapses when the dreamer stops dreaming.
You can read it both literally and metaphorically as well if you so chose.
I look at it differently to how you do. As far as I'm concerned the things I write exist regardless of whether or not I actually write them, because like..
I don't describe every individual blade of grass, or every moment in a particular societies history that led to it being the way it is in the 'present', but those blades of grass and historical moments necessarily must exist for that society to exist in it's 'current' form.
Accordingly, since these settings need things I didn't write or imagine to exist in the place, there's no reason the bits I do imagine would cease existence if I stopped imagining them.