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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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Mielikki
Mielikki posted over 2 years ago

Hmm, but a lot of times you do crazy things while hallucinating.

I personally like the word hallucination. ;p

swissbob
swissbob posted over 2 years ago
This is almost alike LSD and definitely legal.
M_eanwhile
M_eanwhile posted over 2 years ago

Holy crap.. it still feels like the screen is zooming even after it stopped. That was awesome.

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 2 years ago

wow...that is amazing.

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 2 years ago

Hmmm…. i really like the pictures above, inspiring.

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 2 years ago

Do any of you like Salvador Dali?

MastaKink
MastaKink posted over 2 years ago

NO! Never mention that name again.

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 2 years ago

Oh and why is that MK?

MastaKink
MastaKink posted over 2 years ago

Salvador Dali killed my father.

megbarbiee
megbarbiee posted over 2 years ago

aw poor guy

purple octopus
purple octopus posted over 2 years ago

I love the guys moustache. 

trixareforkids
trixareforkids posted over 2 years ago

Haha I know it's awesome! I wish I could grow a moustache like that

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 2 years ago

Are you serious?

trixareforkids
trixareforkids posted over 2 years ago

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

Darth Xelleon
Darth Xelleon posted over 2 years ago

I have a mustache. An a beard to go with it.

I think I'll shave pretty soon though.

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 2 years ago

Hopefully i won't grow a moustache… That wouldn't attract the kinda people i am looking for ^^

Darth Xelleon
Darth Xelleon posted over 2 years ago

lol <sup>_</sup>

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 2 years ago

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...)

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 2 years ago

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...)

MastaKink
MastaKink posted over 2 years ago

I see that also…  Oh great! Now i'm seeing double...

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 2 years ago

strange…i wonder if comments breed?

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 2 years ago

Interesting: Maybe comments are breeding in order to take over the world. O.o

Mielikki
Mielikki posted over 2 years ago

The future history textbook will probably be including a "Comment Revolution." Or maybe we'll actually be overthrown by the comments…

Finrod
Finrod posted over 2 years ago

Comments of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your punctuation…

swissbob
swissbob posted over 2 years ago
¡No pasarán!
M_eanwhile
M_eanwhile posted over 2 years ago

Hahaha.

Mielikki
Mielikki posted over 2 years ago

Maybe our dear fellow comments will teach me grammar. I shall apply for the Institution of Comment Grammar.

Finrod
Finrod posted over 2 years ago

All comments are equal… but some comments are more equal than others.

swissbob
swissbob posted over 2 years ago

Only a dead comment is a good comment.

Finrod
Finrod posted over 2 years ago

Commentism?

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 2 years ago

commentarchy? what's comment in latin, if we're making up new words that'll be handy…

Finrod
Finrod posted over 2 years ago
It would be Greek, Silth; I propose scholiarchy or scholiocracy.
Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 2 years ago

ach, i see

dumbbrunette
dumbbrunette posted over 2 years ago

I vote for scholiocracy! But I thought most words were latin based, hhmm guess I was wrong

Finrod
Finrod posted over 2 years ago

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.

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 2 years ago

i'm with dumbbrunette: lets go with scholiocracy.

Vano
Vano posted over 2 years ago

I wish I would have been following this from the beginning.

dumbbrunette
dumbbrunette posted over 2 years ago

I think the convo started with Finrod's 19 hours ago comment its really not that long of a convo ;)

mark my words.
mark my words. posted over 2 years ago

Its awesome.

Panda^_^
Panda^_^ posted over 2 years ago

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.

Darth Xelleon
Darth Xelleon posted over 2 years ago

I see a purple unicorn eating a doughnut.

.....
Why do all my halucinations involve food?

Clarabella
Clarabella posted over 2 years ago

Hehe must be the time…..;)

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 2 years ago

(following darth's line of thought)

most weirdest food you can come up with... 

Finrod
Finrod posted over 2 years ago

(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...

dumbbrunette
dumbbrunette posted over 2 years ago

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

Finrod
Finrod posted over 2 years ago

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."

dumbbrunette
dumbbrunette posted over 2 years ago

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

MastaKink
MastaKink posted over 2 years ago

hot dog

M_eanwhile
M_eanwhile posted over 2 years ago

Well.. I've eaten fish eye balls before. Of course, they were cooked.

Silthilar
Silthilar posted over 2 years ago

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...

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