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Imagination

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Olin Levi Warner, Imagination(1896). Library of CongressThomas Jefferson Building, Washington,


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Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability to form new images and sensations
in the mind that are not perceived through senses such as sight, hearing, or other senses.
Imagination helps make knowledge applicable in solving problems and is fundamental to integrating
experience and the learning process.[1][2][3][4] A basic training for imagination is listening
to storytelling (narrative),[1][5] in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to
"evoke worlds".[6] It is a whole cycle of image formation or any sensation which may be described as
"hidden" as it takes place without anyone else's knowledge.[citation needed] A person may imagine
according to his mood, it may be good or bad depending on the situation. Some people imagine in a
state of tension or gloominess in order to calm themselves. It is accepted as the innate ability
and process of inventing partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived
from sense perceptions of the shared world.[citation needed] 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".
Imagination can also be expressed through stories such as fairy tales or fantasies. Children often
use such narratives and pretend play in order to exercise their imaginations. When children develop
fantasy they play at two levels: first, they use role playing to act out what they have developed with
their imagination, and at the second level they play again with their make-believe situation by acting
as if what they have developed is an actual reality that already exists in narrative myth.[7][vague][further
explanation needed]

Contents
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1 Description

2 Psychology of imagination

3 Imagination and memory

4 Imagination and perception

5 Imagination vs. belief

6 Brain activation

7 Imagination as a reality

8 See also

9 References

10 Further reading

11 External links

Description[edit]
The common use of the term is for the process of forming new images in the mind that have not
been previously experienced with the help of what has been seen, heard, or felt before, or at least
only partially or in different combinations. Some typical examples follow:

Fairy tale

Fiction

A form of verisimilitude often invoked in fantasy and science fiction invites readers to pretend
such stories are true by referring to objects of the mind such as fictional books or years that do
not exist apart from an imaginary world.

Imagination, not being limited to the acquisition of exact knowledge by the requirements of practical
necessity is largely free from objective restraints. The ability to imagine one's self in another person's
place is very important to social relations and understanding.Albert Einstein said, "Imagination ... is
more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." [8]
In various spheres, however, even imagination is in practice limited: thus a person whose
imaginations do violence to the elementary laws of thought, or to the necessary principles of
practical possibility, or to the reasonable probabilities of a given case is usually regarded by mental
health professionals as insane.
The same limitations beset imagination in the field of scientific hypothesis. Progress in scientific
research is due largely to provisional explanations which are developed by imagination, but such
hypotheses must be framed in relation to previously ascertained facts and in accordance with the
principles of the particular science.
Imagination is an experimental partition of the mind used to develop theories and ideas based on
functions. Taking objects from real perceptions, the imagination uses complex IF-functions [citation
needed]
to develop new or revised ideas. This part of the mind is vital to developing better and easier
ways to accomplish old and new tasks. These experimental ideas can be safely conducted inside a
virtual world and then, if the idea is probable and the function is true, the idea can be actualized in
reality. Imagination is the key to new development of the mind and can be shared with others,
progressing collectively.
Regarding the volunteer effort, imagination can be classified as:

voluntary (the dream from the sleep, the daydream)

involuntary (the reproductive imagination, the creative imagination, the dream of perspective)

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