How do you grow your imagination?

john | July 7, 2026, 5:34 a.m. Uncategorized

We have to start with what imagination is.  Imagination according, Merriam and Webster, is "The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality"

In other words, to be a god.  To create.  This post would be evidence of imagination if only it could stand on its own.  It didn't exist before it was written, it was created, but did it grow the imagination?

Grow according to the same folks means "to develop to maturity : to undergo development"

That's almost contradictory.  To mature is to be fully developed.  To grow is to under go development.  So that means to grow imagination we we can't be mature in our imagination development abilities because that would mean they are fully matured.  But one can create every day.

Thankfully logic is limited by words, and common parlance is a doozy.  All to say that that It's doubtful anyone can honestly answer that question.  I can see one could argue that imagination is fully matured as soon as creation is made.  But to grow is to not be matured.  

To practice the same thing, creation, is not growth either.  It's dangerous to question the question and dig into the meaning.  It seems to run into the limits of spoken words.

But feelings, they give you a vibe that can't be expressed properly at times, that maybe even defies logic, only cause it's limited by its manner of expression. . 

But then what's the counterfactual.  How do you shrink your imagination?  Is it even possible? Shrink means "To become reduced in amount or value; dwindle."  Probably where I should of left this post.

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