Imagination
Related: creativity - daydreaming - fantasy - fiction
The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed. --Edgar Allan Poe, 1850
Contrast: reality
Definition
Imagination is in general, the power or process of producing mental images and ideas. The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the "mind's eye". One hypothesis for the evolution of human imagination is that it allowed conscious beings to solve problems (and hence increase an individual's fitness) by use of mental simulation. --http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination
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