Using your imagination
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
United States
July 5, 2012 1:17pm CST
I’m not sure when I was able to use my imagination. I remember being in school and the teacher said to use your imagination to picture something in our minds. The teacher asked me what I saw and I said “Black.” That’s all I saw. I didn’t understand the concept of seeing stuff in my mind’s eye.
Of course, now things are different. I have a very active imagination. I can picture myself in a canoe, floating on a meandering stream. The experience will change and the water will pick up speed, and the canoe will go faster and faster, and then I will see a waterfall that I am heading for. I have to mentally get off that boat to save myself. Wow! How I have changed since growing up.
Can you tell me something about your abilities to imagine?
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@Lorden (348)
• South Africa
5 Jul 12
I'm slightly scared to use my imagination, because sometimes it seems whatever I imagine just plain pops up in real life. So, imagination is a great power, and with great power comes great responsibility.
So, you imagined you see black when you close your eyes eh? Well that seems like a pretty valid imagining. Your teacher must have been very close minded if she didn't give you extra credit for that.
But it does seem you have upgraded your imagination quite some... from black to waterfalls, canoeing and watersports? Must be quite a trip!
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
7 Jul 12
I think when I was a little kid I didn't know what she wanted of me. I closed my eyes as asked to and it was dark. That's it. No imagining it's black. It WAS black. As I got older I learned how to use my imagination but never knew quite when the magic happened. It just did.
@yadavashock7 (15)
• India
5 Jul 12
you can imagine what you want and you will get what you imagine. is is due to your fear or sadness or by your happiness.you are god of your life and sarroundings. Life turns whatever and wherever you want to bend it...only you need to understand it and react it.
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@katcarneo (1433)
• Philippines
6 Jul 12
I imagine things a lot and I don't need to close my eyes to do it. Mostly I imagine conversations with different people. This is I do most often when in a moving vehicle. It has happened more than once or twice, that I wasn't able to get off at the right bus stop because I was imagining things while looking out the window.
I also see things very clearly in my mind, just like a movie. Maybe this is why I am more of a reader than a TV watcher. In fact, I only watch one TV program---the news. I do follow certain American TV series which I watch online, but I read novels more often and have a rather big collection of books.
One thing that I don't like, though, is how vividly I imagine things. When I hear news about a heinous crime, I see the gory details in my head. I also dislike watching morbid movies, since afterwards I see the scenes in my head again, very very clearly.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
6 Jul 12
I have never had much imagination. Too busy having to face the real world & what was going on. I can't picture how things will look etc. I think it's real good to have a imagination but i got left out when it was being handed out,lol.
@celticeagle (166830)
• Boise, Idaho
5 Jul 12
I remember telling a make believe story in school about a birthday party I didn't have. I also recall some great meditation experiences. I have a place out by the sea that I can go to anytime I want to imagine it. A lovely place that I only I know of so there aren't alot of people there.
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@BarBaraPrz (47292)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
5 Jul 12
I like to spend time lolling about my inground pool (which remarkably looks like, to other people, an inverted trashcan lid...)
@asdomencil (4265)
• Philippines
5 Jul 12
Sometimes I used to imagine things and predict if it will happen in the next few days. When I was in college, imagination is really important since we really need that in our study. Specially when talking about the movement of molecules and particles that are really abstract. By the way I studied chemistry.
Furthermore, according to some of our teachers, men are usually have more abilities in imagination than ladies. I am not sure if it is true.
@Bhebelen14 (5194)
• Philippines
5 Jul 12
Lately I imagine myself having baby twins a girl and a boy whose playing and talking while having breakfast with my husband. We want to have a child as soon as possible and were working hard for it. Most of the time I used my imagination when reading books and trying to imagine every scenes on the books and about the looks of the characters. There is not limit when using imagination and its free.