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imagination

longman
over 13 years ago

Do we really lack imagination?

I see this so often in the literature

Looking at the web pages on "understanding behaviour" - "Anxiety in adults....." it says "To understand emotion you need imagination. One of the areas of difficulty for people with autism is not being able to imagine things"

But further on, under psychological signs, it has "thinking constantly about the worst outcome". How do we do this without an imagination?

It it more about type of imagination? Or too much imagination making subtle imagination harder?

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  • 9 months ago

    Everyone has an imagination. It's one part of being human.

    And it can be exercised, grown, expanded, tapped into or ignored. It is the vehicle used to make sense of sense-perception, to conceive ideas, to encounter language in every form. We might not have an awareness of it's incredible capacity and how we use it everyday, but anyone saying otherwise is lacking in a sort of intellectual understanding of how this immaterial structure shapes everything in our lives.

    There are a few things which can sever awareness and access to a deeper and more creative imagination, and the first is Trauma. Another major force which will hinder one from actively growing the imagination is economic circumstance which robs our resource of Time. 

    The imagination is a powerful place, metaphysically speaking. One requires an imagination to look at a set of steps and to follow those instructions whether building Lego or understanding how to lay out a garden.

    I have a feeling more often than not, it seems Autistic Children are barred from free play which engages aesthetic: submerging one self in colour palettes, playing with shape, desiring functional toys rather than ones which do nothing, and as this study concludes: echolalia, which is the gateway to poetry. cdn2.psychologytoday.com/.../what_is_play_published.pdf

    A larger problem is being surrounded by a social collective who simply don't understand all the forms of Play and Imagination. After all, emerging technology requires an imagination to problem-solve or dream up, to see patterns and make wild connexions in ways only the imagination can. 

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  • 9 months ago

    Everyone has an imagination. It's one part of being human.

    And it can be exercised, grown, expanded, tapped into or ignored. It is the vehicle used to make sense of sense-perception, to conceive ideas, to encounter language in every form. We might not have an awareness of it's incredible capacity and how we use it everyday, but anyone saying otherwise is lacking in a sort of intellectual understanding of how this immaterial structure shapes everything in our lives.

    There are a few things which can sever awareness and access to a deeper and more creative imagination, and the first is Trauma. Another major force which will hinder one from actively growing the imagination is economic circumstance which robs our resource of Time. 

    The imagination is a powerful place, metaphysically speaking. One requires an imagination to look at a set of steps and to follow those instructions whether building Lego or understanding how to lay out a garden.

    I have a feeling more often than not, it seems Autistic Children are barred from free play which engages aesthetic: submerging one self in colour palettes, playing with shape, desiring functional toys rather than ones which do nothing, and as this study concludes: echolalia, which is the gateway to poetry. cdn2.psychologytoday.com/.../what_is_play_published.pdf

    A larger problem is being surrounded by a social collective who simply don't understand all the forms of Play and Imagination. After all, emerging technology requires an imagination to problem-solve or dream up, to see patterns and make wild connexions in ways only the imagination can. 

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