Inventive thinking is one of the key factors that will help us solve our problems. Imagination is basically the power to generate and simulate unique ideas, sensations, and novel objects in your mind without the direct access of your five senses. This ability is widely regarded as the one of the most powerful human powers, one that can be used for good or bad. But how do you use your imagination properly?
An obvious case of where imagination fails to deliver results is when reality is already there. And that's not just the case with the obvious kind of reality, where there are no surprises. For instance, look at what usually happens when you get a bill in the mail or a new credit card offer. Even if all that glitters is not gold, reality is not there to challenge your creativity. Hence, you have no option but to accept that you have been caught in a very real and rather unexpected situation.
On the other hand, if imagination is used correctly, then you can use it to excel beyond the limits of your sensory perceptions. This is possible because imagination helps you to perceive the world in a different way. The more that you use it to explore and challenge the limits of your five senses, the better you will be able to imagine new possibilities and solutions. This is where imagination helps you find the answer to your problem or question. This means that, even if there are no clear-cut answers to the questions that you are asking, your imagination can still give you the right solution by pointing you in the right direction.
Imagination can be thought of as a conjunction of two things: imagination and mental imagery. Your imagination is a combination of your thoughts and your feelings. It combines these two, using your brain, to create an image in your mind. Mental imagery, on the other hand, is created by pictures that you see in your head.
Imagination is part of what is called cognitive creativity. Cognitive creativity is basically the capacity to think outside the box. It is the ability to think outside the square or rectangular view that most of us hold. By thinking outside the box, you can come up with new ways to attack your problems, gain a new understanding of a problem, or just figure out how something could have happened in a million years ago.
In other words, your imagination is like a set of tools. You can use your tools to come up with new ways to attack your problems, enhance your knowledge, or just figure out how something could have happened in a million years ago. Now, your brain has all of these tools at your disposal, but it does not know how to combine them to make one cohesive mental image.
This is where imagination comes into play. With imagination, you are able to put all of your creative powers together in a way that brings the whole thing together and makes it real. When you picture something real and imagine it existing in your physical reality, you are taking all of your existing knowledge and using it to create an imaginative knowledge base or representation of your theory. This then becomes reality, because you have supersized your beliefs into an actual belief system.
When you have one imagination, you tend to use it for everything. When you use many imaginations, you become very good at being creative. If you go back to the earlier example, you could have thought about jumping off of a bridge and actually did it, or you could have thought about jumping off of a balcony and then actually did it. Either way, you have used all of your available imagination to shape your idea into a reality in your physical mind.