Also called ‘anchoring‘, a term that’s become increasingly popular (Freakonomics, Predictably Irrational etc.).
Accordingly, what is it called when you think something into reality?
Manifestation is the process by which thoughts are turned into things – either real or imagined – and then made known through action. The thoughts of someone who is manifesting an object into existence will often come from the unconscious or the transpersonal domain rather than the personal unconscious.
Likewise, people ask, what is the meaning of to bring into existence? : to begin to exist : to come to have actual being long before the country had come into existence.