In the moment of creation, a person buys into the world of his fantasy and lives in it as if in his real life. It's the same in the art of the actor - it's not for nothing that we have expressions like "play a part", "play onstage". This creative life is very different from ordinary life. The creative imaginary life is often much more realistic and fulfilling than one's mundane existence. We all have dear friends and relatives with whom we became acquainted and to whom we grew so close - characters from works by Tolstoy, Dickens, Chekhov, Cervantes, and whomever else. Regardless whether they did, it's not important to us - prototypes are the concern of literary scholars. And in general, if we start dealing with "creative thinking", we'll have to involve the magnetism of thought, the vivacity of thought, the imagery of thought, the materiality of thought, and its physiological tangibility.