Were there times in which I wished I didn't have it? Nah. Does it affect my decisions and how I live my life? Absolutely.Does your vivid imagination affect your morals/principles/etc? Does it affect how you would live your life? Were there times you just wish you didn't have it?
I do not have a vivid imagination by this definition.
My imagination is the size of multiple universes, but it is conceptual, to put it simply.
It's not my fault I have almost no mental visual manipulation skills. Darn physical limitations...
Does it work? Does a work of art work? - Only if I can suspend my disbelief.
And I can suspend my disbelief if the work has been fully imagined by the author or artist.
This is not as easy as it seems and many works of art fail. They fail to suspend our disbelief because they have not been fully imagined.
And artist will often recognise this and try to fake suspension of disbelief by tricking us.
A very common trick is to say, "This is a true story", as if it doesn't have to be imagined. This is a fig leaf to cover a bare imagination.
And the common trick today is to use hi-tech to distract our attention from the failure of the imagination. "Oh, isn't that incredibly clever", we say with an empty feeling. And we feel empty because there is no nourishment for our imagination.
So why is it so hard to fully imagine a work of art?
It is because the artist must let themselves go for a time and become the work of art.
This leaves us vulnerable and we are loathe to commit all of ourselves to the work.
So we try to short-change our imagination, we try to cheat our imagination. And just as God won't be mocked, our imagination won't be cheated and gives us a lifeless work of art.
So rather than coming to life like the statue of Pygmalion, it dies in the hands of the artist.
Yes, Pygmalion created a beautiful statue of Galatea whom he loved with all his heart and so the statue of Galatea came to life, just as any fully imagined work comes to life in our imaginations.
I do not have a vivid imagination by this definition.
My imagination is the size of multiple universes, but it is conceptual, to put it simply.
It's not my fault I have almost no mental visual manipulation skills. Darn physical limitations...
So basically you understand what is going on in your mind by the concept itself rather than 'seeing' the concept in action and THEN translating that into a concept?
That is how my mind works. I have a mostly foggy picture of what's going on from the concepts that are interconnecting and acting. Any form of thinking on my part is just following the concepts until I reach a conclusion I'm seeking or until I get distracted.
In the book Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, the character describes how he reacts to things not by the idea of it happening -- which he states doesn't bother him -- but of the images he gets in his mind.
Now I'm wondering if a vivd imagination (And other kinds of thinking) correlates with different learning styles.
Yes! I think in music too. I always thought that was so strange.Yes, by that definition I have a vivid imagination. I think primarily in pictures, or music. Music is usually mixed in with my pictures. My mental pictures are usually pretty sharp. Some have hazy edges as if they were errant thoughts trying to run away. I suppose it's sometimes like a movie, and sometimes like still photography. It just depends. I also think in words but not as often as pictures.
Yes, I can play whole movies in my head. I can also imagine 3D objects and zoom, rotate and deform them. I was suprised to learn some people can't do this as it comes naturally to me.
To define for this thread: A vivid imagination is the ability to easily see pictures and 3D forms in your mind rather than just the idea of something.
If I understand correctly, I can relate to this! i do not generally picture things clearly in my mind visually. I do however have quite an imagination...
People say that I have e vivid imagination, but that's not true. I see the world in caricature, that is all.