Imagination classes 4 years All about imagination and its development in adults

Imagination is a unique ability of human consciousness to create images, ideas, new ideas and objects from objects that in the real world are not perceived by him as a single whole (they do not exist or are incompatible).

Imagination is a form of mental reflection of the world, the basis of visual-figurative thinking, which allows a person to solve the tasks assigned to him without resorting to practical actions. Consciousness allows you not only to transform familiar things, but also to use them for your own purposes. It allows a person to plan, model, create, play and remember.

Important! Imagination develops in childhood and improves in adulthood, but only with constant training.

Without knowing how to develop fantasy and imagination, you need to pay attention to the exercises described below and reading good books.

How to develop imagination (training exercises) for adults

Many adults suffer from a lack of imagination. They cannot write a children's story, come up with a good joke, create a painting, or sew a carnival costume.

The reason for this is seen as a lack of talent, but in reality it is all a matter of lack of imagination. To develop it, there are special exercises, the consistent implementation of which will help cope with the lack of imagination.

Training the rhythm of attention

To perform this exercise, you need to relax and focus all your attention on your hands. The head should be freed from any thoughts. Every day you need to exercise for at least 5-10 minutes. In this case, you can change your body position and viewing angle.

The main thing is full concentration of attention on the object under study in the absence of any extraneous thoughts. It is allowed to blink, it is not advisable to look away, you need to look at your hands all the time.

The exercise is considered completed if, during the entire allotted time, you can pay attention exclusively to your hands, without turning your gaze to other objects in the room. With the help of this exercise we develop imagination in adults quite quickly.

Imprint of erasure

You need to find an eye-catching object in the room and concentrate your attention on it for 5 seconds, trying to mentally photograph it. Closing your eyes and holding your breath, you need to reproduce the object from memory. As you exhale, you need to free your consciousness from the imprinted image, erasing it.

The exercise is performed repeatedly; at least 50 imprints and erases must be made per day. In this case, the time for the exercise is chosen arbitrarily; it should not be determined in advance. This kind of imagination training takes no more than 10-15 minutes a day. Each time you can choose different objects to study.

Hold Imprints

They look at the object for 3-10 minutes, after which, with their eyes closed, they restore its image in their consciousness. You need to imagine the object in color. One approach – imprinting and holding – takes from 5 to 15 minutes.

The main goal of the exercise is to learn to feel parts of the body and surrounding objects. They move on to the next exercise if a person clearly imagines an imaginary object with his eyes closed.

As soon as this is achieved, you should transfer the image to a white sheet of paper, learn to memorize pictures, book pages, and works. Training allows you to reach level 6 of imagination development.

Stop for a moment

Choose a specific picture, quickly look at it, close your eyes, and reproduce individual details from memory. It will be difficult, but by training up to 15 times a day, you can increase the time you hold a picture in your memory to 5 minutes. You cannot think while doing this; the consciousness must be freed from any thoughts for at least 15 seconds.

Instant photo

Select an object or a passerby on the street, close your eyes and imagine it exactly the same as in reality. Repeated training will allow you to imagine the remembered object against a different background, but with your eyes open.

Live photography

Select a passerby, glance at him briefly, close your eyes, mentally imagine, and then try to revive the resulting mental snapshot, forcing him to continue moving.

At first, this may not work, but after 2-3 weeks of training, the photograph will be able to be revived in your imagination. You can avoid mistakes by comparing the imaginary image with the real actions of the object.

Photo manipulation

Having imagined a specific object in your imagination, you need to try to change its position in space, shape and size. Several objects can be combined into one and vice versa, the whole picture can be broken down into separate fragments.

Figures

We ask someone to place matches on the table and cover them with paper. For an instant, the sheet of paper rises and the practitioner remembers the resulting figure. He closes his eyes and mentally imagines what he saw, trying not only to place the matches in their places, but also to count them.

As soon as this is completed in the imagination, you need to take more matches and lay out the figure on a separate sheet, then lift the first sheet and compare the original with what happened. The exercise is performed until the two figures completely coincide. At the same time, in the process of studying them, attention is paid to the color, quantity and quality of matches.

The training for the imagination is considered complete if the location of at least 10 matches in a row is retained in consciousness.

The ability to see the main thing and features

You need 200-300 matches. The assistant dictates various words, and the practitioner lays out the corresponding associations from matches. Words are dictated at intervals of 1 minute, but as the result improves, this time is reduced to 30 seconds.

The exercise is considered completed if it is possible to reproduce at least 50 words, and not only make associations, but also reproduce the resulting words out loud after completing the dictation.

Important! A developed imagination makes life brighter. The ability to create images, think outside the box, draw parallels and associations helps in work and personal life.

With the help of the exercises described above, you can achieve significant success in developing imagination even in those people who were not aware of such an ability.

Techniques for creating images of the imagination

To create an image of an object in the imagination, use the following techniques for creating imagination images:

1. Combination. Individual objects or elements are rearranged in such a way that the result is a new unusual combination. This technique is used when writing paintings, books, poems, and making innovative discoveries. To combine objects, do not use a simple mechanical combination of individual sides of the object. A new image is obtained as a result of complex analytical and synthetic activity, transforming elements beyond recognition. This is the method that artists and writers use, adjusting individual elements to fit an existing idea.
2. Agglutination. A special case of combination, the essence of which comes down to obtaining a new image by gluing individual ideas into one. An example is the combination of human and animal body parts in a fairy-tale hero. In technology, agglutination found application in the creation of a trolleybus (“gluing” a bus and a tram).
3. Accenting. When creating a new image, some parts of the old are omitted, while others are highlighted. By focusing on color but omitting the size of the item, you can create a completely new item.
4. Sharpening. A special case of accentuation. Attention is focused on the height, weight, size of the character or object. As an example, we can use the gigantic growth of giants and the insignificant size of Thumbelina.
5. Schematization. When examining objects, differences are erased, individual ideas are smoothed out, and common features are put on display. Used in the creation of scientific and technical objects.
6. Typing. In the process of typification, essential and repeating elements are projected onto a separate, completely new image. Synthesis of individual images occurs. This technique is used in the literature.

The use of the above techniques significantly facilitates the task of developing imagination in adults.

Development of creative imagination

Creative imagination is a type of creative activity of consciousness, during which the formation of completely new images and ideas occurs. In this case, existing ones can be taken as a basis.

Important! The development of imagination is impossible without reading books, replenishing your vocabulary, and making associations.

If you don’t have time for this, you can do the following exercises to develop your imagination:

1. Letters. They choose any letter from the alphabet, after which they name all the objects in the room that begin with this letter. By exercising regularly, you can not only develop attention and memory, but also imagination and thinking. The missing items can be imagined.
2. Name and describe. Choose any picture you like and try to name and describe it yourself. The same exercise can be applied to people and objects. It allows you to develop not only creative abilities, but also the basics of creative thinking.
3. Geometry. Find geometric drawings and try to name the objects that they are trying to depict with their help.

By training for at least 10-20 minutes a day, you can significantly improve your natural creativity abilities, become intellectually enriched, and develop memory. Developing creative imagination is a long but interesting process.

Books that develop imagination

Many rationally thinking people refuse to read books written in the genre of science fiction and fantasy, and do not read fairy tales and stories where the author deliberately lies. They believe that such reading is intended for children and adolescents and is unworthy of an adult. In reality this is not the case.

Fairy tales and interesting fantasy stories help develop imagination not only in children, but also in adults. If reading something like this is not interesting, you can study one of the following educational books:

• "Six Thinking Hats" (Edward de Bono);
• "A Beautiful Mind" (Michael Michalko);
• “Methods for the development of memory, imaginative imagination, thinking” (Igor Matyugin).

Interesting, but far from scientific works that allow you to significantly expand the limits of the reasonable, are books for the development of imagination by the following authors:

• Stephen King;
• Joanne Rowling;
• Michael Crichton;
• Patrick Suskind;
• Michael Bulgakov.

It is worth emphasizing once again that reading science fiction helps develop imagination to unprecedented proportions. This is why small children so easily make up funny stories about their toys, parents, and friends, while adults find it difficult to do this. In childhood, everyone fantasized, but as they grew up, they forgot about this ability.

A person may well exist without imagination, but the ability to recreate new images and ideas is never superfluous.

7 exercises for " Development of imagination" from the book by Boreev G. "Conscious exits from the body. Nine practical methods. (Techniques for achieving physical immortality)."

Developing imagination - First exercise

Select an object at eye level at a distance of 1 - 3 meters. The item to start with should be very simple: a book, a pen, a matchbox. Close your eyes and imagine a white, empty, glowing space. Keep a clear image of it in your mind's eye for 3 to 5 minutes. Then open your eyes and contemplate the object for 3 - 5 minutes. At the same time, do not think about it, but simply look through it, as if you were looking into the distance, trying to take in the subject as a whole. Close your eyes and imagine this object in your mind, placing it in a white luminous space for 3 to 5 minutes. The exercise needs to be done 5-8 times, trying to do it calmly, without straining, without any effort of will.

Developing Imagination - Second Exercise

While lying in bed, before going to sleep, close your eyes and imagine a black letter “A” on a white background. Hold the image of the letter in your mind for several minutes. The letter can change in shape, float away, shrink - calmly return it to its original place in its original form. The next day, imagine the letter “B” in the same way. Hold the letter in your imagination until the image is clearly captured. At the next stage of this exercise, hold the combinations of the letters “AB”, then “VG” and so on. Then hold three letters in your imagination. Some people immediately manage to keep 5 or more letters on their mental screen. Work further, bring the number of letters held in your imagination to ten. Exercise helps develop concentration, expand the scope of perception, and improve memory.

Developing Imagination - Third Exercise

Imagine a small red square, fix it in your imagination. Now imagine that the square increases in size, diverging its edges to infinity. Now there is a red space in front of you, contemplate it. The next day, do the same experiment with the orange space. Then with yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Once you have mastered this, move on to more complex things. Imagine first the color red, smoothly turning into orange, orange turning into yellow and so on until purple. Then you need to go back from purple. Then imagine red-skinned people walking through a green forest. People's skin gradually becomes orange, yellow - and so on until purple. Then it gradually turns red again.

Development of imagination - Fourth exercise

Imagine an apple. Start rotating it clockwise in space. Imagine how it flies out of your head and flies around the room. Place the apple opposite the bridge of your nose and look at it. Carefully try to mentally enter into it, feel yourself in its size and shape. Then fly one meter up from your body in an apple and look at the world from this point. You should see your body below, the walls of the room, the furniture, the close ceiling. This exercise should be done while sitting in a chair or lying on a bed, as involuntary access to the astral world is possible. It is extremely important not to lose control of yourself during the exercise. If you sense something is wrong, open your eyes immediately.

Development of imagination - Fifth exercise

Look carefully at any object. Close your eyes, try to see the same object in the same place. Open your eyes, compare the imaginary object with the real one. Close your eyes again. Open. Achieve maximum identity between the physical and the imaginary. As you progress in your studies, the subjects covered should become increasingly difficult. Then start looking at animals and people this way. After fully mastering this exercise, you will be able to look at a person with your eyes closed and see the aura and internal organs of his body.

Development of imagination - Sixth exercise

Learn to create some mental image in space with your eyes open. For example, imagine that you have a vase with different flowers on your table. Try to see her there.

Development of imagination - Seventh exercise

Take mental trips. Imagine how you walked around the room, hall, kitchen, went out into the corridor, and returned. Imagine how you leave your house, walk down the street, get on a bus, go to the forest, to the river, swim, and so on.

Target: determine the level of development of nonverbal imagination.

Material: for each child 10 sheets of paper (half the size of a printed sheet), on each of which a small (about 1 x 2 cm) figure of an indeterminate shape is drawn. The bottom of an equivalent set of such figures has been developed (see Fig. 1 and 2). During one examination, children are offered one set (any), consisting of 10 figures, and a simple pencil.

2. Game: “Different Pictures” –

Target: develop imagination and perception.

Material: pictures depicting objects or scenes, and the same pictures, but cut into several parts.

Methodology: children are asked to look at the whole picture, and then, from memory, assemble the picture from the parts. (Figure 3)

3. Exercise: “Guess who I am?”

Target: develop imagination.

Progress of the exercise: an adult uses gestures, facial expressions, and sounds to depict a well-known object: a samovar or a teapot.

Methodology: children are asked to guess the depicted object and tell how they guessed it.

4. Game "Transformations"

Target: develop the child’s ingenuity, that is, imagination combined with creative thinking. Expand the child’s understanding of the world around him.

Material: any simple object (chair, scarf, pencil, etc.).

Methodology: Children are given any simple object. And the first child is offered, with the help of facial expressions, pantomimes, and imitation of movements, to “transform” him (in the imagination) into any other object. For example, a glass in a vase of flowers. After it becomes clear what the item being used will turn into, another child takes it and “transforms” it into something else. The game continues until everyone has “transformed” the item.

Target: Development of imagination

Look carefully, what does each figure look like? (Figure 4). Name several options, and then you can complete it the way you imagine it.

6.Exercise: “Magic Forest”

Celb: Development of imagination

Complete the lines and shapes to create a magical forest with its inhabitants. (Figure 5)

7.Exercise: “Gifts for friends”

Target: Development of imagination

Think about how you can turn these figures into gifts for your friends. Try to finish drawing. (Figure 6)

8.Exercise: “Blot”

Target: Development of imagination

Look carefully at each blot and think about what it looks like. Try to finish drawing. (Figure 7)

9.Exercise: “Painting”

Target: Development of imagination

Draw these circles so that they make a picture. You can combine several circles into one picture. (Fig. 8)

10.Exercise: “Connect the dots”

Target: development of imagination

See how you can make a drawing by connecting the dots. Try to draw something yourself by connecting the dots. (Figure 9)

Application (imagination)

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Development of imagination- a consciously chosen process during which a person pursues the goal of improving his imagination, namely making it brighter, deeper and more special.

What is imagination? Imagination is the ability for the unexpected or intended appearance of any images, ideas, and so on in the mind and thoughts.

What arises in thoughts during an imagination may differ from reality. Imagination– a world separate from reality; thoughts, ideas and objects that do not exist in nature can appear in the imagination. It is imagination that helps in the mind to solve problems that require a visual representation.

For example, how to insert a battery into a watch, mouse, calculator, how to close the lid of a saucepan, how to tighten a nut onto a bolt. These are all too simple and obvious examples. How about playing checkers or chess in your head, or assembling a clock mechanism from gears or a house from a construction set. There are many more examples of the use of imagination.

Imagination is divided into four types, each of which differs significantly from the others:

1. Active imagination- a person draws at his own request, builds images in his head.
2. Passive imagination- These are images that arise unexpectedly, regardless of a person’s desire.
3. Productive imagination is the imagination in which reality is transformed creatively.
4. Reproductive imagination is the imagination that restores reality as it is. There is a place for fantasy here, but memory and perception work more.

Development of creative imagination

Creative imagination is a type of imagination that is responsible for creating new thoughts, ideas, plots, objects that will be of value. This is how products of creative activity are created.

Creative imagination is the basis of professions related to art. For example:

Writers. Where would we be without creative imagination? Do you want to write beautiful, big, interesting books with a great plot? Or maybe you need to support it? Then you should start developing your creative imagination.

Artists. If you do not paint pictures of nature, people, still lifes, but create them yourself, from your head, then you will also need to develop your creative imagination. Then you will have a lot of ideas, a lot of different options for painting a certain moment of the picture.

Musicians. They, like no one else, need creativity in their work, because composing good music is not easy, it is a decent load on the imagination, and not just imagination, but creative one.

Development of imagination in children

By about 5 years old, children have a good amount of experience, which provides an opportunity for the development of creativity and imagination. Children do not need tips from older people, because now the child himself is able to invent games, come up with heroes and even imaginary friends. Parents should not panic about the latter, because this is a common occurrence in young children. After a while, everything will disappear without leaving a trace.

The main thing is to pay more attention to the child, he needs it vitally. He learns, develops, absorbs everything like a sponge.

And if it suddenly turns out that your child has gone too far into such “reality,” then you need to work with him more, talk, communicate. As a last resort, involve a specialist in this matter who will help cope with the problem and bring the child out of a non-existent reality.

The development of imagination in young children occurs during games. The child creates within himself the logic of the characters’ actions. So remember DO NOT interrupt your child let him finish his game or help him come to completion, do not violate the logic of imagination.

If a child runs up with a stick and asks to look at his “horse,” then there is no need to explain to him that it is just a stick. A child is not a fool and understands this himself, it’s just that his imagination is actively working and developing. You need to support him by saying something like: “Yes, you have a great horse! Look how beautiful and curly her mane is!”

This approach will only speed up the process of developing the child’s imagination. You don’t need to do anything special, you just need to set the direction by saying something abstract, for example: “What a beautiful mane!” And ask the child to describe the horse’s mane.

Development of a child's creative imagination

Childhood is the age of acquaintance with literature, books, films, music. It is important that the child reads bright and colorful books, with an interesting plot and interesting characters. I watched good and smart films and cartoons. Thanks to books, a child will be able to move into the world of fantasy, imagination, and find himself in a fairy-tale world. Books are a great helper for developing a child’s creative imagination. What the film shows, the child, like any other person, creates in his imagination.

You can practice with your child to develop creative imagination. Give your child heroes he knows about.

Ask him to answer the following questions:

1. What is the essence of each of the heroes?
2. What are their character traits?
3. what are the strengths?
4. what good are they doing?
5. What is missing in the character and in general in each of the heroes?

And ask him to come up with a story with these characters. If it’s difficult, push it, start the story for your child.

Exercises to develop a child's imagination

Exercise 1. Invite your child to trace his hands on paper with paint or a pencil. This will be the basis for their subsequent drawing. Let the child dream up and draw something. For example, a tree (forest) or a butterfly or flowers, an animal...

Exercise 2. Give your child a choice of 3 colors that, in his opinion, are most suitable for each other. And let him sketch the entire sheet. What does this drawing resemble?

Exercise 3. Ask your child to drop paint in the middle of the sheet. Then have the sheet folded in half. After unfolding, various blots will remain on the sheet. Let the child use his imagination and say what each of them looks like, what it reminds of.

Exercise 4. Give your child sheets with unfinished images and ask them to complete them.

The child’s imagination will play a big role; perhaps, instead of the expected answer, he will depict something unusual and suitable for the initial unfinished drawing.

This will be the result of his perfectly working imagination. It happens that a child needs help, so don’t be upset if it doesn’t work out right away. This is normal and means that you need to work with your child so that he can train himself, because he will have a ton of complex and interesting problems ahead (mathematics, physics, geometry, life situations, etc.), which will require the use of imagination to solve!

Development of imagination in preschool children

The development of preschool children is divided into three stages.

Stage 1- a huge amount of fiction and fantasy. Since during this period the basis is laid for the correct and complete development of the ability of imagination and representation. The stage lasts up to three years.

Stage 2– joint work of fantasies with practice. The child is just learning to build a chain of actions, logic, in order to achieve a result during any task. The stage lasts up to five years.

Stage 3– the child’s activity includes the ability to imagine, fantasize and create. Fantasies become more active and practically applicable.

Exercises to develop imagination in preschoolers

Exercise 1. Ask your child to close his eyes and play classical music. Ask what the child imagined while listening to this music. In addition to classical music, you can use modern music; the more variety, the better.

Exercise 2. This exercise is performed with several children. Play some music with or without words. Ask your child to dance to the music of something or someone. And the other children, watching the dance, must guess what the first child is trying to convey. This exercise develops the imagination of all children.

Exercise 3. This exercise is great for developing creative thinking:

The game leader (an adult) tells the children: “going outside is good, because you can take a walk,” and the children’s goal is to continue the chain, for example: “going outside is good, because it’s good to take a walk.” It’s good to take a walk because it’s useful. It’s good to go for a walk because the weather outside is beautiful. Fine weather is good because the sun is shining. The sun is shining - it’s good because it’s clear. Clear - because there is no rain. There’s no rain because it’s warm.”

Games to develop imagination

Online games are not only easily accessible but also very useful. There is no need to prepare anything in advance, the main thing is that the child rests for about 20-30 minutes every 15-20 minutes, because during these very breaks new neural connections are built in the brain and the better they are built, the greater the progress will be!

This is similar to how an athlete needs to rest after a good exercise or race to allow his muscles to regain strength.

Complex sorting game

The game “complex sorting” is an excellent training for intelligence and attention. In the center of the screen there is a figure with its own color, and around there are 4 different figures, painted in four different colors. It is written how you need to compare the figure given in the center with those around: by color or shape. You need to think in time and not get lost. The game is against the clock, so hurry up to score the most points.

Game "Letters and numbers"

1. Trains concentration
2. Improves reaction speed
3. Develops logic and intelligence

Immediately after the start, one letter and one number will be shown in one of the four windows, for example, “U6”. And under the letter with the number a question will appear, for example, “Is the number odd?” or “Is the letter a consonant?” You need to answer questions as quickly as possible.

Color matrix game

Also an excellent trainer for development of intelligence will become a “color matrix” game. A field of cells will open in front of you, each of which will be painted in one of two colors. And your goal will be to indicate which color is more on the field at the moment, 1st or 2nd. The game, of course, is for a while and therefore you have to try. As the game progresses, the field will expand, that is. the game becomes more difficult.

Game "Simplification"

The game “Simplification” is a wonderful simulator, not only of mental calculation, but also of intelligence. You will come across examples both simple and complex. But not everything is so complicated in reality, you just need to figure out how to simplify, calculate or find the answer from the ones proposed. To do this, you will have to use your intelligence!

Visual search

1. Develops voluntary attention
2. Improves concentration
3. Improves attention span

Figures will appear on the screen, among which you need to choose a unique one that is in no way similar to other figures. Some figures may differ in just one small detail, which you need to learn to quickly find. With each successful round the difficulty increases and more points are given :)

Game "Flank task"

The picture shows a flock of birds, and you will be required to indicate the direction of flight central birds. At first you may be confused, but then it will get better. Go!

Game "Super Memory"

1. Trains visual memory
2. Increases memory capacity
3. Improves memory accuracy

With each move, one new picture appears on the screen. You need to quickly find it and click on it to score as many points as possible in 1.5 minutes. The first 5-7 moves are very easy, and then it becomes noticeably more interesting and difficult.

Tools for developing imagination

Life experience- this is the main means of developing imagination. Communicate with different people, take part in all sorts of competitions, events, find your hobby, but don’t limit yourself to just one!

Reading– one of the best means of developing imagination. Reading opens up a world of imagination and interesting stories. The cooler the plot, the more exciting the book, the more vivid the descriptions - the better for your thinking and imagination. And before you even had time to read to the end, you can imagine what will happen next. And then you compare as you read how well the future events in the work were presented. If you make a mistake, it’s not bad, because it’s almost impossible to guess the plot completely, but the experience that you get when imagining is priceless.

Fantastic– the best genre for developing imagination and creativity. Because science fiction is a brighter genre than others.

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Development of thinking and imagination

Thinking and imagination are closely related to each other. Imagination can be considered thinking, only this thinking is higher than reality, it takes you to another world, the world of fantasy. Thinking is a tool that every person has when solving various problems in life.

Thinking can be developed, its speed, depth, freedom, awareness can be changed. Also, thinking can become more accurate, detailed and positive.

How to develop thinking?

Take notes and drawings. Get into the habit of expressing your thoughts in writing or drawings. Some people, when explaining or telling something, not only speak, but also draw, that is, they give you a picture and clarify the situation.

Tell me your thoughts. It will be useful to express your thoughts to others who will be really interested in it. By telling this to someone you can get feedback. Another plus is that the more you tell your thoughts, the more clear they will be for you (if there were any points that were not clear).

Discuss. Discussing thoughts is quite an effective thing. The main thing is that the discussion does not turn into a quarrel. If you suddenly do not agree with your interlocutor’s thesis, then make up your own, but do not start a heated argument, but have a calm conversation.

Watch your speech. Thinking and speech are closely related to each other. Therefore, in order to contribute to the development of thinking, it is worth constructing your speech correctly. Advice: exclude the words “problems”, “horror”, “difficult”, include “interesting”, “goal”.

Why are speech and thinking closely related? Thinking is fleeting and difficult to remember, but speech is a different story. Speech is remembered and easier to follow.

Want to improve your thinking? Pay attention to your speech.

Pay attention to other people's speech. It’s easier to monitor someone else’s speech than your own. Because someone else’s speech is something new and all the shortcomings and failures in logic can be heard in it. Studying the mistakes of other people's speech will help you find mistakes in your own speech.

Improve your skills in working with texts. Analyzing a text can be compared to listening to someone else's speech. In both cases, you look for mistakes, roughness and take notes. Improved thinking depends on word processing skills.

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Bottom line

In this article we learned what imagination is, how to develop it for adults and children, what exercises to use, and so on. And also how imagination can be used for practical purposes.

Your boss has assigned you a creative task, but you don’t know which way to approach it? Children ask to tell a fairy tale, but nothing comes to mind other than “Kolobok”? The girl wants surprises, but you can’t understand what that means?

It's time to start looking for information about how to develop imagination in adults. After all, it is precisely with its absence that all the difficulties that may arise in the situations described above and many other are associated.

But don’t get upset and study tons of information: from this article you will learn the most effective, yet simple techniques for developing imagination in an adult. Get ready for a journey into a fantasy world!

First, let's figure out what imagination is and why many people don't have it. So what does this word mean?

Imagination is the ability of a person to generate various images, ideas and ideas in his mind. It can be active, when you specifically imagine something, and it can be passive, that is, unconscious.

For example, if you felt hungry and your brain immediately produced a picture of a delicious burger or fried meat, your imagination came into play; if you were looking through a vacation photo and remembered how nice it was to lie on the beach, it worked.

Thus, if a person says that he has no imagination, then this is not true at all. Everyone has this ability, but it is developed in different ways. And like any other ability or skill, imagination can be developed.

This ability is most active in young children, adolescents and young men. It is during these periods of life that we learn about the world, dream, and make grandiose plans. With age, a person usually goes deeper into certain thoughts, studies, work, and pays attention only to real things and pressing problems.

And if you are not a creative person whose whole life is connected with images, but a serious programmer or sales manager, then coming up with bright ideas becomes more and more difficult every year. A person begins to think in stereotypes and sees the world too literally.

The consequence of this is boring conversations, the inability to make the world around you beautiful and colorful. How to deal with this?

In fact, developing imagination is not too difficult even for adults. The following will list various techniques and methods that will help cope with the problem of lack of active imagination.

The main condition for the success of these exercises is openness to experimentation and lack of shyness. The simplest of them are performed only in your head, which means you shouldn’t be afraid of mistakes - no one will see them. And those methods that involve interaction with other people will help you not only develop your imagination, but also have fun.

1. Activate the “imaginary” with the help of visualization

Perhaps visualization is the easiest way to activate the imagination and develop it. The essence of this exercise is a detailed mental reproduction of a specific object, place, or action.

You need to start small: try to carefully look at an object lying on the table, and then close your eyes and imagine it. It could be anything, such as a book or a phone.

2. Develop your imagination by reading books

Visualization of events from books is closely related to the previous method. Only here the task is more difficult - you need to keep many characters and images in your head, make them move and interact. Try not just to read letters and words, assimilate certain information, but to generate a complete picture.

Over time, reading books will become as exciting as watching movies... Or maybe even better! After all, when reading a book, you can not be limited by the director’s imagination, but give free rein to your own imagination, and at the same time develop it.

3. Play in associations

Associative thinking is developed in most adults. Surely, anyone can imagine the color orange when they hear the word “orange”. Playing this game with a group can not only have fun, but also improve your imagination skills.

4. We come up with a cat and other unknown animals

Where did the names honey badger and weevil come from? Someone invented them! Moreover, in the simplest way. Since an animal feeds on honey, then it should be called a honey badger, and that bird with a long beak should be called a weevil.

Even though the names you come up with are unlikely to be included in biology textbooks, this activity can be very fun and exciting. Combining different words and inventing new ones from them will perfectly help develop the imagination not only of children, but also of adults.

5. Getting involved with art

In fact, all creative people use this method to develop certain qualities in themselves. If you lack ideas, inspiration or imagination, go to an art gallery or exhibition, watch films and master classes.

Watch others do it. Sometimes a brilliant author's concept can be born from small pieces and ideas. And if you periodically observe the work of your favorite authors, then your own ideas will not take long to appear.

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