For those who believe imagination has no age understands the
world as a canvas to the imagination. Reality often leaves a lot to the
imagination. Just like our doyens say; imagination and fiction makes up more
than quarter of our lives. I have a vivid imagination that reality of the people
is of those who lack imagination. Will imagination and dream ever be the same?
Probably not. Fantasy mirrors desire and imagination reshapes it. We grow by
exercise and contrary to that is the common belief. Surely, power of
imagination makes it infinite and unsurmountable.
How subtle is the difference between dream, imagination and
assumption? We imagine two notes to synchronise. Does it happen? In reality, it
overlaps. In an overture, we play the second note when the first one is half
done. We imagine it. Imagination is a virtual state of mind whereas dream
creates mental images and emotions ideally occurring during sleep. Assumption
is the hypothesis often taken for granted. However vivid or lucid your dream
is, it often has the grotesque side of it.
Once again, the series of mental images or emotions could be
the resultant of imaginative thoughts. Did you get how imagination and dream
could be? Yes, it is. Albeit distinctive from its own nature, both imagination
and dream are quite lucid. Yet they generate lifelike images circling you back
to where you were before. It could quite be your mental representation of
thoughts or confusion of impressions.
To a certain nature, impressions get along quite well with
imagination. Both deal with vague ideas in which confidence is placed. The
resultant could be an outward appearance or could be a favourable mental image.
When you look at subtle difference between illusion and
fallacy, illusions deals with erroneous mental representation whilst
fallacy deals with misconception and incorrect reasoning. They are all
different in nature. Do we represent them correctly when we connote them in
separate scenarios? Maybe not. Finer distinctions are often misread.
When imagination is
unrestricted or unsurmountable, it becomes fantasy. When your optimism and
imagination is more, you are often less biased. This objective consideration
helps in being fair and prevents preconception. Often times, we use our
freewill and discretion to form opinions. Ideally, this should not be the case.
Our opinions should be undistorted by emotion or personal bias.
There was this time when I started to think how imagination
and beliefs have overlaid our lives. Do we sense it? Are they the realm of
sense or occult? I do not know. Beliefs are the psychological result of
perception, learning and reasoning. Not necessarily true in all sense. Religion
for instance deals with belief of supernatural power that control human destiny.
Religion believes in divine power whilst science believes on experiments and
observation. A lot of illogical imagination or perception may occur without the
intervention of science. Religion and morality are not one and the same.
Morality is based on ideas of right and wrong, good and evil. Religion
cannot ascertain faith without ethics thus giving room for imagination and
perception.
In moral philosophy, we have moral values and rules. These
rules in principle are regarded as normative but in my opinion, they are
conventional. In the end, we live in the world of fantasy. We live in the world
of deceit. We dissimulate our identity in many cases and live in disguise.
We camouflage, conceal, imagine, believe and misrepresent ourselves with an outward semblance. Ultimately, we all live in our own mental representation and our egocentric behaviour does not permit our perceptions to fall through. We call this mother wit. Be it or not.
