Imagination overcomes reason by using imagination as a coping mechanism for the unknown, and when fear of the truth is stronger than that of reason or rationale. First off, imagination overcomes reason by being used by the human brain to cope with the unknown.

“Imagination is the ability to form mental images, phonological passages, analogies, or narratives of something that is not perceived through our senses. Imagination is a manifestation of our memory and enables us to scrutinize our past and construct hypothetical future scenarios that do not yet but could exist.

Researchers have long suggested that human imagination exists thanks to a widespread neural network in the brain. However, clearly demonstrating that such a “mental workspace” exists has been extremely difficult with available techniques that only managed to examine brain activity in isolation.

Imagination and fear But because there’s no immediate danger when the threat is imagined, repeatedly imagining it will help detach the stimulus from the expected threat since none appears. This weakens the brain’s association between stimulus and expected outcome.

Imagination has much to do with reality. It shapes the way we see our reality, and therefore, affects our expectations and hopes, our actions and behavior. Imagination is like a software that programs our behavior, expectations and actions.

You have the power, given to you by God, to control your thoughts and imagination. God designed you that way on purpose! Philippians 4: 8-9 (The Message Bible) says this about what we are to think about and imagine.

The answer, researchers suggest, lies in a widespread neural network – the brain’s “mental workspace” – that consciously manipulates images, symbols, ideas and theories .

Here, some guidelines:

1. Encourage active, not passive, pursuits. Think of imagination as a muscle: If it’s not exercised, it will atrophy.
2. Provide plenty of safe supplies.
3. Let your child make choices.
4. Tolerate a mess.
5. Participate in creative projects.
6. Know what to expect.
7. Don’t force it.
8. Make noise.

Einstein famously said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

Imagination is a conscious effort that happens after being fed by a stimulus or inspiration (whether internal or external). On the other hand, dreams can also be influenced or inspired, but they are usually an unconscious event. Imagination usually happens in a conscious state, while dreams occur in a state of sleep.

Fantasy offers children impossible scenarios that can never come true, and contradicts the child’s developing understanding of how the world works. Imagination is just the opposite. Imagination draws on the child’s understanding of the world and tends that toward deeper reasoning.

A fantasy is a product of the imagination. It is an imagined sequence of events or mental images (for example, a daydream). It is a form of a story from the self with one common factor: The subject imagining the fantasy appears as one of the actors in the story.

The research quoted indicates that both empathy and imagination are characterized by the ability, cognitive in nature, to imagine oneself in a different situation. This research maintains that they are linked, and hypothesizes that the greater a person’s imagination, the more empathy will be shown by the person.

Strategic imagination means challenging deep-rooted assumptions and rejecting the tendency to assess new innovations and opportunities by our current systems and standards.