Power of Imagination

When my husband sits down to read my MS, he often starts laughing. 

The problem is, my MS is not a comedy.

But he starts laughing because he sees the story, he sees the characters. But what he doesn’t see, in all of this, is me. 

He constantly asks himself ‘Where the hell does she come up with this stuff?’

And I tell him- It’s almost as though it’s not me who writes it at all.  It’s like I’m watching a movie in my head and just recording what happens.  How people look, how they move, what they say, etc….

Hubby thinks it’s cool.  But he still wonders if I’m not slightly insane. Which leads me to the question-

Do some people just have more imagination than others?

Now there was a time when this might have been a question I would have simply asked God.  But he's often busy, so I went to the next best thing-  Google.

And this is what I found.  According to Wikipedia-

‘Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses. Imagination is the work of the mind that helps create fantasy. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the  learning process.’

So basically- Everyone has an imagination.  If you didn’t you wouldn’t be able to use logic, understanding.  You wouldn’t be able to acquire knowledge.

But I still can’t help the feeling that for some people, that’s ALL it’s used for….

And I thank god for this muscle, this power that allows to imagine anything we want, when we want.  And for those people who dared to imagine things that they had never seen, and never heard and bring something new into the world.

Here are some of the best imagination quotes I found throughout my query-

“I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”- Albert Einstein

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” - Orison Swett Marden 

“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.” -Joseph Addison 

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”- Jessamyn West 

“I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” -Peter Nivio Zarlenga 

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.”- Duane Michals 

“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” -Ursula K. Le Guin 

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” -Theodor Geisel 

“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”- Calvin Trillin 

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” -Pablo Picasso 

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” -Michelangelo 

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.” -George S. Patton 

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”- Simone Weil 

“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” -L. Frank Baum 

“Imagination rules the world.” -Napoleon Bonaparte 

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” -Carl Sagan