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Imagination is (1) the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses, and (2) the action or process of forming such images or concepts. It helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process. A basic training for imagination is the listening to storytelling (narrative), in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to 'evoke worlds'.
Imagination is the faculty through which we encounter everything. The things that we touch, see and hear coalesce into a "picture" via our imagination. The way we understand things... the way that we 'make sense' of things is through our imagination. The ability to problem-solve... to see things from a different perspective... to empathize... all happen because we have this technicolor, multi-channel, curious imagination. Imagination IS the ability to create perceptions. Novel perceptions. Fantastical perceptions. Hypothetical perceptions.
Imagination can also be expressed through stories such as fairy tales or fantasies. Most famous inventions or entertainment products were created from the inspiration of one's imagination.
It is accepted as the innate ability and process to invent partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world. The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind, percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the "mind's eye".
One hypothesis for the evolution of human imagination is that it allowed conscious beings to solve problems (and hence increase an individual's fitness) by use of mental simulation.
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Hmm, but a lot of times you do crazy things while hallucinating.
I personally like the word hallucination. ;p
Holy crap.. it still feels like the screen is zooming even after it stopped. That was awesome.
wow...that is amazing.
Hmmm…. i really like the pictures above, inspiring.
Do any of you like Salvador Dali?
NO! Never mention that name again.
Oh and why is that MK?
Salvador Dali killed my father.
aw poor guy
I love the guys moustache.
Haha I know it's awesome! I wish I could grow a moustache like that
Are you serious?
Yeah! It's not like I'd always have it, but it'd be kind of fun to have it every once in a while
I have a mustache. An a beard to go with it.
I think I'll shave pretty soon though.
Hopefully i won't grow a moustache… That wouldn't attract the kinda people i am looking for ^^
lol <sup>_</sup>
is it just me, or does a lot of html pop up in your comments?
(on this end, your latest comment read, "lol <sup>_</sup>"...maybe it's just my computer...)
is it just me, or does a lot of html pop up in your comments?
(on this end, your latest comment read, "lol <sup>_</sup>"...maybe it's just my computer...)
I see that also… Oh great! Now i'm seeing double...
strange…i wonder if comments breed?
Interesting: Maybe comments are breeding in order to take over the world. O.o
The future history textbook will probably be including a "Comment Revolution." Or maybe we'll actually be overthrown by the comments…
Comments of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your punctuation…
Hahaha.
Maybe our dear fellow comments will teach me grammar. I shall apply for the Institution of Comment Grammar.
All comments are equal… but some comments are more equal than others.
Only a dead comment is a good comment.
Commentism?
commentarchy? what's comment in latin, if we're making up new words that'll be handy…
ach, i see
I vote for scholiocracy! But I thought most words were latin based, hhmm guess I was wrong
English borrows/has borrowed words from dozens - if not hundreds - of languages. Its primary linguistic association (where its grammar and vocabulary come from) is with what's called the Germanic languages (if the terminology hasn't changed from the last time I looked), but here's a few examples:
Royal (French - the English term was kingly before 1066); Aardvark (Afrikaans); Vodka (Russian); Chocolate (Nahuatl, language of the Aztecs); Tsunami (Japanese); Coach (Hungarian - or more properly Magyar. There is a place in Hungary called Kocs. I'm not telling you how to pronounce that!): Bungalow (Hindu, meaning (house) in the Bengal style); Bamboo (Malayalam); the list could go on for a long time.
But let's get back to scholiarchy and scholiocracy.
i'm with dumbbrunette: lets go with scholiocracy.
I wish I would have been following this from the beginning.
I think the convo started with Finrod's 19 hours ago comment its really not that long of a convo ;)
Its awesome.
It was quite an interesting conversation… thank you silthilar for the beginning of such a great conversation. Now for some other ways to use our imaginations.
I see a purple unicorn eating a doughnut.
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Why do all my halucinations involve food?
Hehe must be the time…..;)
(following darth's line of thought)
most weirdest food you can come up with...
(Speaking as a somewhat insular Brit) Without a doubt, chicken feet. Chinese people love them. I was once asked by my hosts in a restaurant in Hong Kong if there was anything I didn't eat. Somewhat relieved, I told them of my inability to cope with these.
Ten minutes later, enchantingly-webbed duck feet appeared in front of me...
eeewww thats kind of creepy but I'd have to say Haggis is the weirdest food that I almost ate until I found out what it was, a sheep's heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal's stomach for approximately an hour! YUCK
Mmm... haggis...
Nothing wrong with that... another time in HK I was given some strange-looking stuff to eat. I tried it, found it good, and asked what it was. "Cow's stomach" was the reply.
"Oh!" I said, "You mean tripe."
wow thats pretty brave of you, if I eat something that is completly foriegn to me I never ask what it is because I usually wont like the answer :P
Have you ever had cow's tongue, it is very tender but feels weird because you can feel the cows taste buds as you chew it
hot dog
Well.. I've eaten fish eye balls before. Of course, they were cooked.
the oddest food i've ever heard about would be a sheep's head, which is supposedly delicious...i'd definitely try it...
the oddest food i've ever eaten...hmm...probably live ants, but that was when i was four and not really food...tapioca pudding? its texture is all rubbery, yet at the same time disturbingly tender...and it tastes like soy milk (or at least mine did)...ech...