Talk:Imagination

message: 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)
thread_title: Older comments,  questions 

message: 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.
::::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)
thread_title:  Boring 

message: 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.
:::Use your imagination and you will visualize the humans that you mention.Lestrade 23:55, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voted for for "the most boring article of the year"

message: 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)
thread_title:  Too wordy 

message: 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)
thread_title: edit Imagination as a reality

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 04:08, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: So people can actually "SEE" in their mind? I don't get it. Could we have a section maybe on what percentage of people can do this? I am not sure I can figure it out. So when these people think 'cat' do they see a cat in their head or just think the word 'cat'? Could this be clarified? Sorry for the trouble but, wow, this is confusing and needs rewording in places.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Melune (talk • contribs) 19:15, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This article pretty much sucks in numerous ways, but in any case, the question you're asking has been involved in a lot of controversy:  the question is basically the extent to which "visualizing" uses the same mental mechanisms as vision.  There is a neuroscientist, Steve Kosslyn, who has devoted his career to trying to figure this out, and has come to the conclusion that mental imagery uses most of the parts of the brain that are involved in actual vision.  Others aren't convinced.  It's a tricky topic:  there are some people who claim that they think in pictures, and others that they think in words, but it's hard to come up with any empirical test that distinguishes between the two. Looie496 (talk) 19:47, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Now I am confused. 

message: Hi Looie496, I had a go at rewording that sticky sentence at the end of the article and corrected it according to what I could find on the subject. Still needs a valid reference though -- I can only see old books (that I can't access fully) and webpages right now.  Hope this helps ~ Ciar ~ (Talk) 07:56, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Final sentence

message: Rich Farmbrough, 03:15, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: In Our Time

message: song title called imagination  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.25.86.130 (talk) 04:02, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  song title called imagination 

message: Human ‘self’ and the memory in which the ‘self’ remains in dynamic state, are located in the immaterial space time. The observed unit is located in an interval of standing time ‘now’ and it is a static picture, or an idea. The ‘self’ is motivated by the ‘emotional energy’ arising from the difference between two parts of the static unit observed in the ‘now’. The motivation allows the ‘self’ to bring from the memory another picture in the next ‘now’. Change from one now to the next ‘now’ manifests flowing time.  KK (178.43.116.236 (talk) 16:57, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: [Citation needed] --Andrewaskew (talk) 22:51, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The imagination 

message: Can someone try and improve this incomprehensible sentence (I'm justing passing by) --there're probably other similar sentences:
:A basic training for imagination is listening to storytelling (narrative),[1][5] in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to "evoke worlds".[6
Rwood128 (talk) 16:17, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this mean?