How to develop imagination

How good it is to be a dreamer - you can read a book and at the same time "view" a movie about it in your head. You can always surprise your loved ones with an original gift and, finally, it is never boring with a rich imagination. This article will show you how to develop your imagination and imagination.

What is fantasy for?

Psychologists use the term "fantasy" to understand the activity of the brain associated with the invented, unreal. That is, this is such an improvisation of our brain on a given topic.

It should be immediately clarified that fantasy and imagination are still different things. If the first is a completely fictional process, then the imagination is based on reality, complementing it. For example, imagine yourself on a velvet sandy beach, with a cocktail in hand - imagination. But what the Kraken and Jack Sparrow are sailing past on sea turtles is already a fantasy.

There is a misconception that fantasy is needed only in childhood. In fact, a person with a good imagination is able to think outside the box. That will allow him to find new, simpler ways out of the situation. People with a developed imagination are usually among the artists. Movies, paintings, sculptures are all the result of good imagination. In our century, computer games are also added to this list. After all, their creation requires remarkable imagination.

There are many ways to develop your imagination. Remarkably, for children and adults, the methodology is the same. Do not be afraid and cautious in the methods of awakening or reinforcing fantasy. However, it is worth remembering that in childhood, a child should not constantly be in the world of his dreams. This will prevent him from socializing in the future.

How to develop imagination and imagination

A person with a fantasy has a wider choice of profession. Architect, constructor, designer, songwriter or book writer. Also, a person with imagination knows how to create something with his own hands. Cooking, embroidering, scrapbooking. Fantasy "opens" the doors of the surrounding world. Having opened up a good imagination and having mastered, for example, the profession of a designer, you will never be left without a piece of bread. And good imagination will allow you to figure out where to get money in case of a "rainy" day.

You can develop your imagination with the following techniques:

1. Games... Since the whole principle of teaching children is based on games, this is the simplest and most effective way to develop imagination.
2. Creative activity, hobby. Drawing is great for developing the imagination. You can give free rein to your hand, draw something unconscious, and then come up with what it looks like.
3. Writing stories. To begin with, you can take any fairy tale as a basis and remake it. Add details - tell us what was the fox's fur coat and a mole on the upper lip. She also smoked a mouthpiece.
4. Exercises with words.
5. "Inventing destiny". Think about the images of people you meet and come up with who they work, who are the colors of the wallpaper in this person's apartment.
6. Inventions. Take the Lego designer left in your distant childhood and start building houses, submarines, spaceships from it. It would be nice to do this together with the child. Kid fun spend time and teach an adult how to fantasize.
7. Search for an exit. You should not try to solve emerging difficulties along the beaten path. Try to sit down and, if time permits, throw in at least 3 additional possible ways out of the situation. To do this, you just need to "turn on" the brain and stop doing on a whim.

Fantasy games

I would like to talk about some of the methods in more detail. What is exercise with words? Everything is simple here. There are 3 possible ways to do it.

• Formation of new words. That is, take two different interesting words. leave a part from the first, attach the second part from the other. For example, a lamp and a cat. Lamkosh. What is this word? And let it be the name of a wonderful young dinosaur with purple paws. Where does he live? What is eating? Does he go to work? As you gain experience, you can complicate your task - swap parts of words. For example, a plate and a butterfly. In a simple version of the task - a tab. Let's complicate and get ochkatar.
• Derivatives of a verb from a noun. That is, you take any nice noun and make a verb out of it. For example, otklaviaturit, sip, gnaw, peresenut. And try to think of what these actions mean. For example, open the keyboard - type text on the computer keyboard.
• Image connection. Take two nouns, come up with basic actions for them. And swap places. For example, a spoon, they eat it, and an elephant that stands. Changed actions. The spoon is standing, and the elephant is being eaten. And you come up with a story of what could have happened that made the spoon want to stand up. And what kind of parallel universe is this, in which food is eaten using an ELEPHANT device.

Believe in yourself, look for inspiration in music, bright colors and other people. You will succeed, the main thing is to want.