Imagination is a basic function of human mind, a definite human potentiality. Most folks hardly exercise it, because we\u2019re taught to get real as we head off to school. Of late, we\u2019ve come to value creativity, and imaginative-ness is a component.<\/p>\n
Imaginativeness operates in many dimensions, as does mind: Spirituality, dreams, the arts, every day life. It represents the subjunctive tense: This is the types of words that imply possibility rather than actualities, words such as would, could, might, should, and the all-important \u201cif.\u201d<\/p>\n
In literature, much fiction is plausibly real, but it gets stretched. There\u2019s ghost stories, tall stories, fantasy, stories about the distant past, the future, about kings and knights in shiny armor, dragons and monsters. Fantasy stories may include magical powers, wizards, and other mythical beasts. Stretched further, fiction can go into silliness.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s important to recognize this spectrum and it makes life jucier to play with the full spectrum. It\u2019s okay to be silly if you know you\u2019re doing it. It\u2019s okay to put on others just a little, but it\u2019s mean to lead \u2018em on too much. Then it\u2019s not fun. You want them to know you\u2019re exaggerating or telling a bit of a tall tale.<\/p>\n
In my class this Fall I touch on the meaning of elves and fairies. I\u2019ll write further about how we can use these myths in our life. For now, let me just plant a seed: It\u2019s okay to know you\u2019re making these stories up, and that they\u2019re not literally true; but they may be sorta-kinda true, and they work to help you over the next hurdle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Imagination is a basic function of human mind, a definite human potentiality. Most folks hardly exercise it, because we\u2019re taught to get real as we head off to school. Of late, we\u2019ve come to value creativity, and imaginative-ness is a component. Imaginativeness operates in many dimensions, as does mind: Spirituality, dreams, the arts, every day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,26,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-spectrums","category-psychology","category-world-of-almost-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}