Soft, White, Computer Magic

...they came to recognize this mental state of increased manifestative power, and developed a procedure involving facebook and the sims whereby they would create sims as similar (!) as possible to the people they knew, in some respects, and freer, happier and more alive in others. They then would watch them run and intensely focus on the sim for it's activity to "imprint" the energy fields of the real person at moments when, for example, someone not so creative in real life began panting a picture in the sim world.