How to develop the imagination?

As a child, you were hard at giving compositions, the need to invent a gift every time turns into a living meal, and the phrase "imagine" seems a mockery from others? Many will say that a rich fantasy is a gift of nature, and those who did not show miracles of imagination in their youth, it is not necessary to wait for the awakening of creativity at a more mature age. In one thing, they are right - imagination is born in childhood, when the level of the idea of ​​the world is based on our speculations. However, in that the level of fantasy remains unchanged throughout life, they are mistaken. How to develop creative imagination and imagination, you will learn from this article.

It's easiest to practice in fantasy in the form of a game. If you do not know how to develop imagination and visualization (which is extremely popular lately), you should try this method.

So, games that develop imagination:

  1. "The film without sound." Turn on any movie you do not know, look at the first ten minutes and remove the sound. Now watch the actors play, trying to guess (or come up with) the content of the movie.
  2. "Unreal things." Try to think up non-existent things and phenomena. For example, what a dog looks like with the wings of an eagle, a mantis, the size of a bus, a live elevator, etc. Try to "see" this to the smallest detail.
  3. The Polaroid. Look at some object and try to absorb as much as possible its little things. Close your eyes and let the object manifest in your consciousness. Try to make the quality of the "snapshot" as clear as possible. By the way, the exercise can be slightly changed: look around the room, and then turn off the light sharply. And try to reproduce all the details in your thoughts.
  4. Put on a sheet of paper a few points and try to connect them so that different figures are obtained.
  5. "Five words." Take the pen and, without thinking, write five words quickly. Now try to include them in one sentence.
  6. "History". Getting into an unfamiliar room, try to think of a story that it can store. You can train on separate things and, by the way, for these purposes the museum will perfectly suit.
  7. "Melodies and sounds." Try to recreate in your head various melodies and sounds (for example, the mewing of a cat, the creak of a door, the sound of the surf, the rustle of dry leaves underfoot).
  8. "Divination". Try to guess the pattern in the momentary outlines of the cloud or the thick of the drunk coffee.

In all these games that develop imagination, you can play alone or with the company. The second option, of course, more fun. Perhaps you'll come up with your tasks, which means that you will advance to the goal!