Imagination is a figurative representation of information, which always contains something that is surreal, which does not have a place in the present reality. Imagination takes a lot of forms, from the closest to the realities - planning, to the most surreal - dreams . In the process of imagination, thinking, memory, analysis, and also the way of perception of the world participate.
Types of imagination
There are five basic forms of imagination in psychology:
- A dream is a vision of a transformation in the future that does not have an exact implementation date;
- fantasy is a reflection of reality in a modified form;
- hallucination is an image experienced by us without external stimulation;
- dreams - the representation of an unattainable and unrealizable future;
- dreams - the unconscious visualization of desires.
In addition to these forms of imagination, there is another rarely mentioned species - a thought experiment.
Its main feature is a thought process, during which a person represents a reflection of reality in the future. For example, this type of activity was used by Karl Marx when he asserted that communism is viable only if it is established in all countries of the world.
A dream, as a form of imagination, is personified, a real possibility that does not have a deadline. From reality to the dream, we are separated only by the presence of will, determination, action, purposefulness and self-righteousness.
Images in the imagination
Imagination generates its images in three ways:
- Agglutination is a form of imagination in which images that do not meet in reality are combined. For example, agglutination is an image of a mermaid, in which a woman (face and trunk), fish (tail) and algae (hair) are combined. This method is used both in creativity and unconsciously, in our dreams.
- Accent - emphasizing something separate in the image.
- Typification - a combination in one image of typical for a given era / circle of people's character traits.