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The limits of imagination (pg. 2)
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| Project-K |
| quote: | Originally posted by thesauce23
woah so did i.. what was the color of the suit in ur picture? |
dark blue, white dress shirt, matching tie. Something like this;
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| Silky Johnson |
Omg I thought that was Adam Levine...SWOOOOOOOOOOOON.
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| thesauce23 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
dark blue, white dress shirt, matching tie. Something like this;
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no way. i had dark blue suit with briefcase in the left hand. thats ed. |
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| lücid |
i think my imagination is sometimes a bit too active and vivid.
it's fun in some cases, but it can also drive me absolutely crazy at times. |
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| Flec |
| what if you imagine something and then write it down like say.... authors of fictional books.... their crazy elaborate stories are products of their imagination |
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| Flec |
and also, the human mind can only give focus to so many things at once, whether these things are inputs from your imagination or from your real senses .... you would have just as much trouble recalling the details of a real scene/situation versus one that was imagined
^^^ how many times do you watch a movie over again and catch something you missed the first time, or go somewhere often but only after many visits see something you never noticed before |
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| Arbiter |
Imagination, recollection, and similar cognitive processes where the image being "perceived" is entirely internal generally use a high degree of abstraction. This is not a bad thing at all; it keeps the cognitive load relately low and allows us to focus on the relatively few important details rather than getting caught up in the innumerable minutiae.
I tend to think, however, that imagination is not so much limited in that regard as it is underdeveloped. There are few situations where it would be advantageous to override that abstraction and actually created an extremely detailed "imagining," and as a consequence most people rarely, if ever, seek to do so. It should come as no surprise, then, that it does not come naturally to those people. |
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| kadomony |
Imagination is a semi-conscious process.
Our subconscious uses symbolism to communicate but as we're awake, we don't get that much detail from it.
If you were to be hypnotized and THEN told to imagine a businessman boarding a subway, I bet it would be MUCH more detailed.
An interesting note: some people (I forget the technical term for it) can remember every minute detail about a memory. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by kadomony
An interesting note: some people (I forget the technical term for it) can remember every minute detail about a memory. |
Eidetic memory. |
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| nchs09 |
Are you kidding? books paint such a vivid image that you can see, feel and sense every aspect of it. At least thats what good writers do...
Now i have not encountered a great writer in my time.. but reading books from great novelist from back in the day is like watching a movie x100000 |
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| Project-K |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
Are you kidding? books paint such a vivid image that you can see, feel and sense every aspect of it. At least thats what good writers do...
Now i have not encountered a great writer in my time.. but reading books from great novelist from back in the day is like watching a movie x100000 |
Good point.
And if you want crazy detail, go read James Joyce's Ulysses. ;) |
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| Jarvmeister |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Any thoughts? |
The point of a good piece of writing is that the key points will be emphasized, and the other details you can let your own imagination make up. If a businessman is boarding a train, often it's not important what the rest of the carriage are doing. |
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