As a child i saw the worldwith rose colored glasses. Everyting was positive, care free, and optimistic. When i was young, i thought all of my toys came to life at night. Similar to the movie “toy story”, where the toys have their own adventures. I thought santa clause was real, but he never really got me what i wanted. I remember watching those old 1950's movies with my grandfather and i thought that everything was in black and white. I didn't realise that only applied to pictures and television. In the summer i loved to eat watermelon. Sometimes i would eat the watermelon seeds and imagine one would grow in my stomach. Whenever i would sleep over my cousin camille's house, i believed that if i brought my special blanket monster wouldn't harm…show more content… It also means to conceive of or to form a purpose. The definition of imagination is parallel to how faith is described in Scripture: “Faith is the assurance the confirmation of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality; faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses” (Hebrews 11:1, The Amplified Bible).
God designed our imagination as a way to access the unseen realm.
We often think of imagination as unrealistic, unimportant, childish, impractical and not sensible to real-life matters. However, imagination is a function of the right brain and includes characteristics such as flexibility, artistry, fantasy, visualization, intuition, empathy, and sensitivity among others.
What is the role of right brain functions in our personal experience? The key word is imagination. Imagination becomes a plan which when followed becomes reality. Imagination is the template for what is to come. An architect creates and designs a picture of what is to come and the vision of what a building or landscape will look like. Often times you will see a “coming soon” sign in front of a vacant space with the picture on the sign of what the finished product will look like. Our brain works the same way. We are the architects of our
