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In what story do dreams become a tangible reality?

I am holding a lecture on Rapid Prototyping soon and I would like to open it with a childrens' story on how something somebody imagined becomes real. Rapid Prototyping is about having computer models conveniently made by machines, so you "dream it up" on screen, "flick a switch", and bzzztt - here's your dream object, miraculously become reality. I'm looking for a nice story to relate to that. Is there anything? Thanks. I just need a fairy tale - one in which somebody may have been thinking "sheesh, I wish I had a horse", and started imagining the horse in all its detail, and suddenly, a fairy comes and the horse becomes reality, that kind of thing. I simply don't know my fairy tales very well, you see. Do you?

Public Comments

1. .....................................................abc
2. I'm sorry, I really have no clue what you are talking about.
3. nightmare on elm street(freddy krueger)
4. W.W. Jacobs Monkey Paw comes to mind, but the story is rather grim, so not suitable as a children's story. More of a Grimm's Fairy Tales. What about the Cinderella fairy tale? She wishes she could attend the ball and a fairy godmother appears granting her wish. Or Pinnochio, where he wishes he could be a real boy and becomes one? Or Aladdin? These wishes were all granted by an outside "force", however. You're looking for a story in which someone envisions something and it just happens (or appears), without any outside interference, aren't you? I'm not certain that I know of any stories or tales in which a wish just comes true, without a magical being NOT being included in the story... I'll have to think about this.