Images Imagination is the making of images and is the vehicle of prayer and other forms of wanting or wishing.
Fear too is a kind of prayer, though to a different god.
Images can be visual, musical, temporal, conceptual, poetical, verbal, sexual, positional, attitudinal, emotional, etc. Everything we perceive or think about serves to enhance or diminish some aspect of how we see ourselves and, by extension, others. You can't be hurt and you cannot die, but you can imagine things that can and identify with them.