Andre Hartslief
The word imagine is literally derived from, IMAGE IN your head. Every creator has an abundance of those. Artists, Writers, Directors, product creators, designers, scientists, without it I fear, without it,we as a species might have died millions of years ago. from Latin imaginari “to form a mental picture, picture to oneself, imagine” (also, in Late Latin imaginare “to form an image of, represent”), from imago “an image, a likeness,” from stem of imitari “to copy, imitate” Sense of “suppose, assume” is first recorded late 14 century.
Imagining something is to form a picture of it in your mind, so when you are imagining something, you are forming a mental image of it inside your head, that’s called, imagination. A good clue is the word image. Imagining sometimes means to guess or believe it to be.
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Do you have a good imagination?
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Yes
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No
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I have to slow my mind down at times. It will get ahead of me if I am not careful. It is a very busy place these days.
from Paul Simon “playing games with the faces.”
I sometimes sit in the din of humanity and makeup stories in my head about the people I see. There is so much to be found in the world around us!
My wife and I both seem to have the same, albeit non- invasive voyeurist tendency, we watch people and wonder how their lives are, whether they’re happy, sad, super-intelligent average, psychopathic the whole spectrum.(lol)
we have the same habit. We sit at a restaurant and watch the crowd. We create stories from that!
I have to admit that I do not have the best imagination … I am a more realistic person and often think in that direction
We can’t get anywhere just dreaming Lado, The doers,(realistic people) are as important. I had a friend like you, who showed me a great example of why dreamers need practical people to give life to their abstract dreams. He brought me a blueprint from the technical department where the wall he had to build indicated a “bent brick”. As we all well know, bricks don’t bend! It took the artist a long time to understand why his beautiful creation could not work without having to first create a special expensive mould for it to be created because in the real world it was impractical.
You have explained this very nicely and in detail to me and I agree with your explanation, dear friend
Of course, I’m quite aware that you make good, effective use of your imagination, was it Moody Blues that had a song, about thinking is the best way to travel? Elon Musk is an excellent example, see where his imagination has taken him so far.
As an only child growing up in an age that had little technology I developed a very good imagination and it helps me with my writing now.