Imagination, also called the faculty of
imagining, is the ability to form new images and sensations in the
mind that are not perceived through
senses such as sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps make knowledge applicable in solving problems and is fundamental to integrating experience and the
learning process. A basic training for imagination is listening to
storytelling (
narrative), in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to "evoke worlds". It is a whole cycle of image formation or any sensation which may be described as "hidden" as it takes place without anyone else's knowledge. A person may imagine according to their mood, it may be good or bad depending on the situation. Some people imagine in a state of tension or gloominess in order to calm themselves. It is accepted as the innate ability and
process of inventing partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense
perceptions of the shared world. The term is technically used in
psychology for the process of reviving in the mind, percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary
language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "" or "" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the "
mind's eye".
