Talk:Imagination
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Looks like this page could be improved for example, ways to stimulates ones own imagination, imagibation tests, external links etc... actually a link should really be done with :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
What the article previously said wasn't entirely accurate... elvenscout742 20:22, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Could someone provide a link or reference to any research into the evolutionary origin of imagination? Just saying that evolving imagination provides an increase in fitness doesn't cut it.
Wot I want is info on over-active imaginations. At what point is it considered unhealthy?
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[edit] Boring
This article doesn't just need a cleanup; It needs some spice, as well.
I nominate this article "the most boring article of the year" award.
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- Boredom is a sign of a dull mind. An intelligent mind can always find something of interest. This article is definitely informative and interesting. Read some Aristotle and Kant to get used to spiceless writing.Lestrade 23:51, 5 October 2007 (UTC)Lestrade
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And I have a feeling you were the one who added "Fairy Tales are Real!!!" and "For more information, watch Spongebob" That is really pathetic. If you want to make this article more interesting, why don't you research it?
It is a little boring, but you may be exaggerating a little. It would be good if people put things such as how the imagination can be used, if they talked about the problems with imagination, or information about very vivid imaginations. This may including psychosis, wierd dreams, writters block and so on. I would have included extracts of what sort of things people with vivid imaginations talk about, such as the fact that I can imagine what it would feel like if it was so hot outside that the roads turned to molten rock and peoples were burning in the street.
[edit] Voted for for "the most boring article of the year"
When I got Here, I imagined pages and pages about how imagination has helped inspire people like the Wright brothers or even leonardo da vinci. HECK.
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- Use your imagination and you will visualize the humans that you mention.Lestrade 23:55, 5 October 2007 (UTC)Lestrade
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[edit] Too wordy
This article is far too wordy and has too many commas. I have to read every sentence twice to make any sense of it.
== I agree with the nominator. This article is a boring, poorly-writtne piece of crap and if I could I would recommend it for speedy deletion. Smith Jones 00:55, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Here is the proposal.
"Imagination as the mind appears the...... so wiki failed.
"A person is faced with the thoughts and memories and feelings of experience and the person is to then allow the imagination of all such to exist."
Now if five order experience allows the definition as such why delete my article?
Get it correct or I get to make it correct. --Eaglesondouglas 00:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Plato's Form is translated into the quite unique term a form, distinct from all others words. For lack of a better term it is called Plato's form.
Who gets to make imagination?
Who gets to allow the student to be artistic or predicate patterned?
Who gets to make the article on imagination where all experience is the realm and all possible things expect existence.
Imagination appears so quite British Isles like. It is pathologically written.
So I argue. And the Imagination is to be a source. Abstracted source of wonder.
Yearling philosopher you have.
Imagination without wonder? So your competence is shown. The wiki is grown. SO if no dissent occurs I will erase the current article and submit mine to the editors.
The current wonder for the child is so poor it hurts.
So I tried editing Imagination. It is difficult and the change is far superior to the original.
[edit] edit Imagination as a reality
The world as experienced is actually an interpretation of data apparently arriving from the senses, as such it is experienced as real by contrast to most thoughts and imaginings. This difference is only one of degree and can be altered by several historic causes, namely changes to brain chemistry, hypnosis or other altered states of consciousness, meditation, many hallucinagenic drugs, and electricity applied directly to specific parts of the brain. The difference between imagined and perceived real can be so imperceptable as to cause acute states of psychosis. Many mental illnesses can be attributed to this inability to distinguish between the sensed and the internally created worlds. Some cultures and traditions even view the apparently shared world as an illusion of the mind as with the buddhist maya or go to the opposite extreme and accept the imagined and dreamed realms as of equal validity to the apparently shared world as the Australlian Aborines do with their concept of dreamtime.
Imagination, because of having freedom from external limitations, can often become a source of real pleasure and pain. A person of vivid imagination often suffers acutely from the imagined of perils besetting friends, relatives, or even strangers such as celebrities.
Imagination can also produce some symptoms of real illnesses. In some cases, they can seem so "real" that specific physical manifestations occur such as rashes and bruises appearing on the skin, as though imagination had passed into belief or the events imagined were actually in progress. See, for example, psychosomatic illness and Folie a deux.Jiohdi 22:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
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