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Yes. I used to be very bad at imagination, but then needed to learn it when I was learning how to paint. I've started with drawing a dot on the piece of white
by rayalez 12y ago
Yes. I used to be very bad at imagination, but then needed to learn it when I was learning how to paint.
I've started with drawing a dot on the piece of white paper, and was closing my eyes for a few seconds, trying to imagine it.
After that - moved onto simple shapes and colors. Then practiced imagining cars or people's faces. Sometimes you can take a car and "rotate" it in your imagination, or change colors and details.
Or walk down the street and mentally replace buildings with a nuclear wasteland or a jungle with dinosaurs =)
Now I can close my eyes and imagine flying around a city, or enact some cool action scenes, car chases, anything.
I strongly suspect that it's not a limit, Tesla wrote in his autobiography that he could imagine things so vividly that they were like hallucinations, and invented/simulated whole mechanisms in his mind.
- morgante 12y agoI don't think it's fair to call this "imagination." I have a very active imagination and can easily come up with entire stories, cities, and ideas in my mind. They're just encoded textually.