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| image credits: Cindy Hayen |
Prof. Dr. Murray Hunter of the University of Malaysia Perlis
discusses the 8 types of imagination we use on a daily basis, with explanations
for each.
Dr. Hunter defines imagination as “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. Imagination
also gives us the ability to see things from other points of view and empathize
with others.”
8
Types of Imagination
1. “Effectuative
Imagination combines information together to synergize new concepts and
ideas.”
2. “Intellectual
(or Constructive) Imagination is utilized when considering and developing
hypotheses from different pieces of information or pondering over various
issues of meaning say in the areas of philosophy, management, or politics,
etc.”
3. “Imaginative
Fantasy Imagination creates and develops stories, pictures, poems,
stage-plays, and the building of the esoteric, etc.”
4. “Empathy
Imagination helps a person know emotionally what others are experiencing
from their frame and reference.”
5. “Strategic
Imagination is concerned about vision of ‘what could be’, the ability to
recognize and evaluate opportunities by turning them into mental scenarios…”
6. “Emotional
Imagination is concerned with manifesting emotional dispositions and
extending them into emotional scenarios.”
7. “Dreams
are an unconscious form of imagination made up of images, ideas, emotions, and
sensations that occur during certain stages of sleep.”
8. “Memory Reconstruction is the process of retrieving our memory
of people, objects, and events.”
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