our imaginary reality
i was reading this book by a man named Collingwood discussing the nature of imagination. and while he was discussing it a thought occured to me that seemed worth remembering for later
its true that we imagine the things we desire in an attempt to achieve them, it's like an act of will almost to change the situation you're existing in.
we only imagine the things we desire though, and we do not imagine the things we don't desire, those things are repressed.
what's tricky about this is that we imagine things effortlessly, from large imaginations of exploding buildings, to smaller things like imagining the motives of someone's actions, and because we do it effortlessly it happens all the time, and it makes it really difficult to distinguish the reality that really exists, within the world and other people, from the lens of imagination we're viewing them through.
i think people do this all the time to greater and lesser degrees from person to person and from time to time. i might fear social interaction with people becuase of some irrational fears about their intentions or because of some belief of them having a great malice towards me, which has led to the general feeling of loneliness that i've come to love so well, these things are a product of my imagination creating the situation which i would have imposed on the world.
yeah, it does seem contradictory that i should imagine things that i don't like, when i just said we always imagine the things we like. perhaps i should rephrase and say that we always imagine the things that are lives are most centered around, whether we love or fear them.
but we do all seem to just wander around in our own imaginary worlds, filling in all blanks (and fairly regularly overwriting what's already there with some people) with whatever we want.
v dangerous.
its true that we imagine the things we desire in an attempt to achieve them, it's like an act of will almost to change the situation you're existing in.
we only imagine the things we desire though, and we do not imagine the things we don't desire, those things are repressed.
what's tricky about this is that we imagine things effortlessly, from large imaginations of exploding buildings, to smaller things like imagining the motives of someone's actions, and because we do it effortlessly it happens all the time, and it makes it really difficult to distinguish the reality that really exists, within the world and other people, from the lens of imagination we're viewing them through.
i think people do this all the time to greater and lesser degrees from person to person and from time to time. i might fear social interaction with people becuase of some irrational fears about their intentions or because of some belief of them having a great malice towards me, which has led to the general feeling of loneliness that i've come to love so well, these things are a product of my imagination creating the situation which i would have imposed on the world.
yeah, it does seem contradictory that i should imagine things that i don't like, when i just said we always imagine the things we like. perhaps i should rephrase and say that we always imagine the things that are lives are most centered around, whether we love or fear them.
but we do all seem to just wander around in our own imaginary worlds, filling in all blanks (and fairly regularly overwriting what's already there with some people) with whatever we want.
v dangerous.