Acharya Prashant explains that one does not only imagine the future, but one's imagination becomes the future. Similarly, one does not only imagine another person's behavior; one's imagination of their behavior causes that person to behave in that particular way. To illustrate this, he tells a story about Mulla Nasrudin, who is fearful of unknown enemies. One night, while going somewhere, he hears drum beating and shouting, and sees a group of people carrying torches and displaying swords. It sounds like an army marching. Convinced they are coming to harm him, Mulla becomes suspicious, hides behind a bush, and climbs a tree. His suspicious actions cause the group to notice him and become suspicious in turn, wondering if he is a highway robber or a spy. The group, which is incidentally a wedding party, starts chasing Mulla. The more he runs to save his life, the more convinced he becomes that they are planning to kill him. The harder he runs, the more the wedding party is convinced he is an evil man running to his camp for reinforcements. This cycle continues until Mulla is exhausted, finds a graveyard with an open grave, and lies down in it. The party traces him, surrounds the grave, and demands to know who he is. Mulla replies, "I am a dead man... I am here because of you, and you are here because of me." This story demonstrates how imagination works. That which you imagine finds a strange way to materialize. If you imagine someone is an enemy, it is possible they will indeed start acting as an enemy. If you imagine your boss is out to harm you, through your own ways, you will cause your boss to harm you. This creates a loop: first you imagine, then your behavior attunes to your imagination, which causes the world to behave according to your imagination. When your imagination materializes, your mind concludes that you must take imagination seriously, which deepens the belief in the power to imagine.