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the only place you can visit without leaving, and never fully leave behind
means the faculty of forming pictures, ideas, or possibilities in the mind that aren't present to the senses — seeing what isn't there, or isn't there yet
from From Latin imaginatio, from imaginari 'to picture to oneself,' built on imago 'image, likeness, copy.' That same imago gave us 'image' and 'imitate' — so at its root, imagination is the mind making copies of things it hasn't actually seen. It reached English through Old French in the medieval period.
brain regionsrecruits the same areas as actual seeing and doing
einstein's toolhe ran physics experiments riding imaginary light beams
aphantasiasome people picture absolutely nothing, eyes closed
placebo powerimagined relief triggers real chemical pain reduction
evolution edgerehearsing dangers mentally beat learning by dying