Bit of a stream of consciousness post here but I feel the need to put my thoughts into words. A year ago I was watching a show and the narrative beat of the story made it clear that this one character was most likely going to die. But I liked the character so I decided to try to do a spell to save him. And it actually worked, the character didn't die, even though this show was filmed like 10 years before I started watching it and the character wasn't real in the first place.

So thinking about the nature of fiction and how it relates to reality. Like take for instance a novel, the universe of the novel does not exist within the physical book, the book simply points your consciousness in the direction of a certain narrative (reality) which you then perceive from a passive viewpoint. I think that it should be perfectly possible to affect changes in fictional worlds and these changes should manifest in the physical signposts - books, pictures, etc - that exist in this reality. And this brings my attention to politics and wars and such. What if the existence of these narratives were only as real as the existence of the narrative of a novel or a movie? The fact that they are given enforced importance by society is simply a way of leveraging power using the political play as a medium. It's like a massive ritual or spellform. I'm not sure if "Joe Biden" the character is any more real than "Detective Colombo" the character. And this brings my attention to the separation of persona and person. Colombo was played by Peter Falk, but is Peter Falk actually any more real for Colombo or is he just another character that represents a connected but different narrative persona? I'm not sure, this line of thought brings me dangerously close to solipsism, although I can recognize that my persona has an equivalent level of realness to any of the fictional personas that you encounter throughout media. If they are fake then I am fake and if they are real then I am real, but no matter what undifferentiated unipolar Awareness exists above that level of being.