Limited Imagination

Imagination is the ability to form mental images, or the ability to spontaneously generate images within one’s own mind. 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 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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Well, the subject of the day is as you might have guessed imagination and not any imagination but my own. I have a pretty good imagination if one would ask me but my imagination is very limited or restricted in some ways.

The restriction or limit I find I have with my imagination is that it’s not entirely free to imagine and float around so to speak. Even if I would always go forward in my thinking it doesn’t mean that it’s actually so very creative or imaginative results I’ll be coming with. You can see a pattern and a clear way of doing things in my imagination and it’s sometimes too structural to actually be free.

I’m mostly thinking about my work and everything around it. If I were to add anything to my fantasy world, I would need reasons and things like that to make it work. Even though I’m currently trying to mystify the world the myths actually are too structured. It’s like my imagination is more the imagination of a physicist or a scientist than of a painter or musician. I’m only able to create new things within my own spheres of probabilities but I’m not as good to create something really new.

The most creative thing I have in my world in the Brizzt and the Satyr I think. Even though the Brizzt race are more qualified than the satyr because they are the race that is hardest to put to a real place and history in the world that actually makes sense in the same way as everybody else.

So I am creative but at the same time I’m not, I am full of fantasy but at the same time I’m not. It’s really interesting how the limits of even the things we’re good at sometimes are a hindrance to development and progress. The question is how to overcome this and if it’s even necessary to overcome this. My imagination and creativitiy have araise from need. I’ve been needing fantasy in the beginning of my life to survive mentally and then lies and things like that have always been a major part of my life and if you want to lie, the lie must be structured and you need to have a plausible lie which doesn’t change. If you don’t tell the same thing twice, then people could consider it a lie. That’s also the hardest thing in spontaneous lies, you easily forget what you said last time. Even so, that’s most likely the cause of everything.

Best regards,
Herid Fel