We often hear people saying that don’t imagine things or stop being in your head. But how can we not engage into this amazing creative talent when we are gifted by god. Humans are creative beings and so are many other living creatures. Also we are conscious of everything and anything we imagine. So you can fully control your imagination and mold it as per your needs.
Most of the human population can imagine in various capacity. Some cannot do that easily but they want to. The reason might be anything. For example, for an artist, it is very important to have a strong imagination powers to create something new and unique.
This article may help you do that. Below you will find some effective ways to improve your imagination. So make sure you check out all the points and try to apply them into your day-to-day activity.
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1. Use Your Senses
Sound, smell, taste or touch, our senses make us feel nostalgic towards what has happened. We often forget to remember many good or bad things happened in past and when that happened. However different senses remind us of different events of life if repeated. For example if you listen to an older song now, you will go back to the memories of when you heard the song for the first time and repeatedly listened to it. You can clearly remember how you were feeling at that time and can create the same feeling again.
Our brain stores each and every information we see or hear either consciously or unconsciously. You just can’t avoid it. Ever wondered why you see dreams of things you think you have never seen or experienced before? You must have seen those things or that person before. Your brain can’t create a new person or thing by itself unless it is a combination of many other things you already know.
So to improve your imagination, you can listen, smell, taste or touch. You can use your senses actively to imagine things which might be related to that sense.
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2. Music
Taking from the previous point, you can practice your imagination by listening to music. Make sure it is instrumental. Different sounds of different instruments will create different types of scenarios depending on your perspective of that sound.
Start the music and close your eyes. Make sure you are not disturbed by anyone. Just listen to the music and see where your mind goes as the music progresses. After the music stops, write down what you saw.
Again this time listen to the music and close your eyes. Try to control what you’re seeing to make a story. Write it down after the music stops.
If you feel you can’t visualize few of the things, go and look at it in real once. It will be easier for your brain to recall it while visualizing it.
3. Draw It Without Looking At It
When we draw something without looking at it, we are forced to use our visualization. Because we need to see it either in real or in our imagination to draw it.
Even if you are not good in drawing, this practice can still help you. Our goal here is not to improve drawing but to imagine. Decide a theme for your drawing. For example, A market or About yourself or anything else. Close your eyes and visualize the things which fit into your theme. Now draw it while looking at it in your mind.
Once finished, see how much it resonates with your theme. Do this practice often to improve your imagination. And, who knows it might improve your drawing skills too.
4. Observe Things and People
Our brain is smart enough to collect all the images it has and make a collage of them to create a new image or scenario. But to do that it needs the raw materials. For example, if you need to imagine a shark flying, you need to know how a shark looks like and what does flying look like. Without knowing this, your can’t imagine the flying shark.
Similarly, to imagine anything and anyone, your brain needs to know how it looks like either by looking at it or hearing about the features of the object which will not be accurate (your brain will again imagine how it looks like based on it’s information on the features you hear).
To give that raw data to your brain, observe the things and people around you. How something or someone looks like in a given scenario. If you have all these information, it will become easier to imagine the same object later.
