When did you loose your imagination?

I agree that making the neying noise might not increase your sales but I certainly think it's good to rekindle your imagination and the feeling that ANYTHING is possible. Not just your imagination but dreams and creativity. I find I get more creative if I have lots of time, like when on a holiday (not so much a busy holiday, but a more peaceful holiday). I may start rekindling old dreams, or even get new ones, but then you go back to work and you just get back into the grindstone again and forget about all that stuff .

Wow I never had an imaginary friend. I feel cheated. I wonder how many people didn't have an imaginary friend. I did play with my brothers, sister and neighborhood children and imagined myself as a teacher or another character but no imaginary friend. I don't think that we lose our imagination. Every time we improvise when we don't have the right tool and grab something else to complete the task we are using our imagination. Every time we have a dream isn't that using our imagination? Maybe we don't lose it but it evolves since as you pointed out people would get the men in white coats after us if we used our imagination the way we did as a child.

hi double! well i didn't really lose my imagination. i keep on imagining things, even if i am already 33. hehee but i didn't remember having an imaginary friend. i just imagine different things and situations and people at different times. hehe i dunno, i just like getting lost in the world of make-believe, one that exists only in my head. i guess it is our escape from reality huh? and it is the solution to the fact that we can only become one person in our lifetime. hehe take care and God bless you! :-)

I haven't for a minuite lost my imagination. i still use my imagination a lot and it has helped me even get over rough spots by restoring my sense of humor when i needed it most. I also daydream a lot althpugh i have not allowed this to be an obstacle to my acceptance of reality. I love reading books and I can use my imagination to go to all those places in all those stories I read and during the time period in which the story is set. i believe I have a very fertile imagination. I also believe that one should not lose his imagination otherwise it could be a very boring life.

Well want to say congrats for such a nice discussion...imagination is based on few things namely -)Mental Strength -)GOD Gift -)Will -)Effort so , its in nutshell its power goverened by above four factors......and all are equally important ...... I want to give example of each of the following .... -) Mental stregth stands best for scientists who discover new things out of imagination -) GOD gift for those who are in the field of cinema/theatre are exceptionally good at imagination . -)Will power for politician like George Bush etc .. whos will derive there imagination -)Efforts apply to all common people who just hit and try as far as imagination is concerned. Some others have combination of these ...... Thanku Ganesh

Never mind looking crazy...our imagination is what keeps us sane! i can shut myself in my room or go for a drive and park somewhere and be whoever, wherever, whatever I want to be. I have allowed circumstance to keep me where I am in reality but my mind knows there's more out there and I haven't given up on making THAT my reality! Saddle up old Brownie and take her to the office on Monday - tell your boss you're getting in touch with the 'inner' you..... unless of course, you ARE the boss - in which case go all out with the sugar cubes and the neighing!!

Oh well to be frank even i was having imaginary friends when i was kid.. i think where i go i had i mean like if i goto new places i have new friends. i had 4 coconut trees to be my friends lol.. well yes i has them i love them now i have changed that place i dont even have any chance to be in there to see if any those coconut trees exist..!! they are long and slender that they just swing in air and its like they are answering and nodding their heads well if i talk something to them and they never say no to me lol i mean they never come up with controversial thoughts they are good friends.. this happened to me because my parents i dont want to call them stupids but no other go they dint allowed me to speak/mingle with any other childeren in my neighbourhood to be my friends all i had is just toys to play with im bored with it.. and i started to have many such imaginary friends being a child i dont know what i do was right or wrong it simply started because i dont have anyone to talk with me :(.and just because i was caught once when i was speaking to these imaginary firends and my parents feared i had gone mad lol.. then my brother was born to be my friend.. though he is not my friend he is my enemy lol we fight a lot.. and so i forgot those imaginary friends as i dont have enough time to fight with him.. hehhehe

when i falling in love with my wife at first sight, i don't know i just look something different in her and i have a relation not to long after my first date with her just need a week and then i ask her to be my wife.

I still got mine. But then I am a fiction writer and we need our imagination to get along and those weird ideas for stories. Oh and with God anything is possible, but but that also means that with our human will, not everything is possible and so we have to have God's help for the miracles. But imagination does not mean pretending you are a lion and turning into one and scaring the neighborhood dog. I can act out having a sword fight with my imaginary adversary, but I would not do it unless I was demonstrating how Robin Hood defeated Guy of Brisbaine and I would do it is if I were playing with my grand daughter and she is not at that stage yet being only fourteen months old. Children believe that anything is possible because they are at the starting point of life, and if things were to go their way, then anything would be possible. I am sure the children of millionaires have their ponies, the training to win the Olympics, are able to live in castles, but it is not reality that keeps us from getting it, it is the lack of money.

We never truly loose our imagination, but it does become dormant as we get older. I think it starts when we go to school. We start learning about the world and the way it works, and we realize that society doesn't look good upon imagination. We are supposed to be rooted in reality. I however, still use my imagination, although for more realistic purposes. I imagine myself rich, I imagine myself helping others to become rich. I imagine what my life will be like once I achieve my goals; the house I will live in, the car I will drive, the things I will do. Imagination is key in reaching your goals, and I for one will never again let my imagination become dormant.

Good discussion! I still like to imagine especially when I am sad! Something will not go to the effort that was required. At the time, at least, we can imagine, we have dreams. Then, your imagination become things. Imagination is reasonable and helpful to some extent. Thus, don't hesitate to imagine

Imagination is good habit to improve ur ideas in the futute world, when i imagine i should be alone otherwise there is no way of imagination in the life