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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 regions
- recruits the same areas as actual seeing and doing
- einstein's tool
- he ran physics experiments riding imaginary light beams
- aphantasia
- some people picture absolutely nothing, eyes closed
- placebo power
- imagined relief triggers real chemical pain reduction
- evolution edge
- rehearsing dangers mentally beat learning by dying
percy jackson series — rick riordan's 5-book franchise where greek gods exist in modern america, selling 180+ million copies
harry potter world building — j.k. rowling invented hogwarts, quidditch, and house system—7 books spawned a $25+ billion franchise
jorge luis borges' labyrinths — argentine writer (1899-1986) wrote philosophical fiction like 'the library of babel'—infinite, impossible spaces