Cloudscape

"Its astonishing in the Inner Worlds - the Innerverse..."
— Silvis Rivers, schizophrenic artist

Teachers of enlightenment will tell you to live in the here and now, and for this reason meditation will often focus on sensations, especially physical sensations such as breathing -- yet, this omits part of the here and now. For it is a mistake to think that everything that happens inside one's head, that is, one's thoughts and fantasies, is not part of the here and now.
Consciousness is comprised of two parts; the outside world and the world within - the "innerverse." However, there is no clear line between the two. They are not as such distinct, except in that one cannot affect the other unless you let it.
The innerverse, however, is by far the most complex part of our lives. Our mindscape varies constantly, much faster than our physical environment. Thoughts shoot through our heads all day, and for many people with a vivid imagination, the same counts for daydreams. Some schizophrenics know little else beyond their inner world, which is why they can live detached from the "real" world -- this may make them seem unemotional, but when something happens in their inner world, they can react highly emotionally to that: in this way they may feel as much affection for imaginary friends as other people do for real friends, while feeling little affection for real friends.
It may be important that we learn to control our inner world at least as well as our outside world. After all, how we feel depends on the former rather than on the latter. Meditation can help us become more aware of our sensations - what happens in our outer world - while hypnosis can help us become more aware of our imaginations - what happens in our inner world.
Through visualization, we can not only become more hopeful about those things we'd like to see come true, but they will also in themselves make them come true in a way -- in our (day)dreams.
There will be a day that schizophrenics will be seen as true geniuses. Over the past centuries, the innerverse has become more and more important because of art, which is basically an expression of our inner world! Music, books, poetry, movies, videogames, even science -- anything that is notional is part of our noosphere, which is basically our collective innerverse. These things become more and more dominant in our lives, especially as we slowly come closer and closer to achieving immersive virtual realities.
The Innerverse has something divine: because we are the Gods of our own inner worlds. We are almighty over our fantasy, at least the amount of fantasy we do have. The nature of our world will more and more become like that of our innerverse, until our entire universe has become like one big dream. One day science and fantasy will meet: everything we can imagine will be real, for anything we be able to conceive of, we will be able to create.