I was sort of teasing you, Amos--though, as GUEST above noted, the Muses do seem to have a reality that transcends our inner landscapes--

I watched a documentary on Fellini recently, and his view of Nino Rota(who wrote the amazingly quirky music in many of his films) was that he was simply had some sort of conduit that allowed him to reach into some remote sphere that others could not reach for his musical ideas--

There have been many times when unbidden, the ideas flow like a wild river, and others where days of labor produce nothing of worth--