Somehow (and we are not really certain how) we are all given super-natural personal power.
Stronger than any magic, we are somehow able to make things happen. We seem to be able at times, to make things and circumstances and people appear into our lives as we please. Sometimes this takes terrific effort, sometimes it seems things appear merely by wishing. The amount of effort may have to do with our personal belief that we have this ability, or just the sheer emotion that we build toward the desired thing at the time.
However, it happens, we know that it does. My mother used to warn me, “Be careful what you wish for, you may GET IT!” She knew that when I’d wished for something without deeper thought, it would likely be produced in the thoughtless manner I wished for it. Although this was drummed into me at an early stage in life, as I grew up, I forgot all about this until I had many different areas of my life to complain about! Years later, since rediscovering this and uncovering the power of mindful thinking, I now realize that the desire comes in some form OTHER than what we think we are wishing for.
In essence, we get what we “ask for”, but then we see the flaw in how, or what, we had asked for. The thing we asked for is not quite what we desired. So the warning implies, be careful how your wants are impressed, make sure it is a complete thought and not a half-thought. Think about details that might be important to the vision as a whole picture.