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Did you know that people who score high in Imagination frequently hallucinate? If you ever hear songs in white noise that are not there, or see faces in the clouds. You are not alone.
High imagination is experienced as vivid mental imagery. To the imaginative, the world is overlayed with a distracting canvas of daydreams. This difference is unlikely to be an evolutionary accident. Just as imagination is a powerful source of meaning and crativity, the oppostite trait Realism is a powerful source of stability and safety. The two traits are mutually beneficial in a thriving society.
Definition
Imagination (Fantasy) is the Openness-to-Experience facet that measures how vividly and frequently a mind wanders beyond present reality. People high on this trait generate rich internal imagery, daydream adventurous scenarios, and effortlessly picture alternative worlds or future possibilities; their thinking is symbolic, metaphor-laden, and exploratory. Those low on Imagination prefer concrete facts and practical details, keep their thoughts anchored to here-and-now concerns, and view fantasy as distraction rather than inspiration. In essence, this facet gauges the mind's capacity for mental simulation,how readily it paints pictures, tells inner stories, and experiments with "what if?" before anything exists in the real world.
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