In the middle of the cold room, I stood, tracing a circular path on the hardwood floor, barefoot. Your eyes wander from my dirty soles caressing the floor up to yesterday's clothes hugging my poor, crooked posture. Then your eyes finally settled—to see me smiling at nothing. It's a chilling sight, isn't it? You saw me in a room with dim fluorescent lights, a cold atmosphere, and dystopian newspapers, but I never saw such things. The room I stood in faded into the background of my mind, replaced with a world where I was everything I could imagine. In this world, I am brilliant. Loved the sand sand. Admired. I will be a member. My potential knows no limits. I was enraptured in my own sea of imagination, lost and carried by the waves. A siren song whispered in my ear, and there …show more content…
In the silence of the vast waters, I drifted into an endless sea of fantasy. And there in my sea, it was only me—no one could remind me of my inadequacies. -- "Cold turkey," a term that refers to an abrupt and sudden cessation, is usually used in the context of addiction. Wait, Rapha, you're going cold turkey? What are you addicted to? Drugs. Not drugs, but rather a lesser-known addiction: maladaptive daydreaming. An addiction where daydreaming consumes most of your life. I'd known I had it for years, but I'd never really taken the time to see it for what it was. Imagination: a limitless, vast sea where you can craft a world without worrying about boundaries, rules, laws, or principles to abide by. You can be anyone, anything, anywhere, at anytime. Imagination is freedom personified. It's a stark contrast to reality, with its chains of limitation and harsh truths. - Have you ever been called stupid? Worthless. How much more is it worth? Ugly? Is it a snor Maybe you're insecure about something, or maybe you've failed at something you expected to succeed at. You feel lost in the world. Angry. Is this a reality? you ask
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
Deep inner thoughts that no one wants to tap into. The speaker is accepting the idea of death in the ocean through his unconscious, but his conscious mind is trying to push back and begin the “measured rise” (Hayden 4) back to the surface.
That was something, I just feel off the boat. Lightly, I drift along water. I see a few of my brothers and sisters, but I am very far away from them.
Addiction /ə-ˈdik-shən, a-/ noun 1. A strong and harmful need to regularly have something (such as a drug) or do something (such as gamble), 2. An unusually great interest in something or a need to do or have something (Addiction). Addiction can cause a person to sabotage their lives in order to get their next fix, whether that be scoring another gram of coke or a double with cheese, a large fry, and a large soda. Addicts are stuck in a constant cycle of getting cravings, going through with their ritual, using, experiencing guilt, and being emotionally triggered, thus bringing them back to the beginning. Now, most people when they hear the word “addiction”, the first thing that comes to their mind is drugs. However, if a vast majority of individuals
Imagination sets people from the real world by giving them the ability to form creative choices. Imagination empowers humans, in away to allow people to create art and
I smiled to myself and decided that I would go join in. With that, I took a huge deep breath and jumped into the salty water. The water was cool and refreshing; I felt it slide through my hair making it sway in the water. I swam deeper and deeper into the deep blue water. Sunlight streamed through it, lighting up the water around me turning it to gold. I kicked harder and I felt my muscles surge with strength and I pushed further. My lunges began to burn for the need of oxygen, but I refused to go up. I repeatedly told myself just a little bit longer. Until I was unable to proceed anymore without more air in my lungs, I swam to the top of the water taking a huge breaths, filling my lungs with air. I could then taste the salty water as it ran down my face and dripped over my lips. Just then I thought, I will never forget this moment, this place, or the experiences I felt while visiting
As defined by the American Psychiatric Association, addiction is a "chronically relapsing disorder that is characterized by three major elements: (a) compulsion to seek and take the drug, (b) loss of control in limiting intake, and (c) emergence of a negative emotional state when access to the drug is prevented" (1). This disorder results from the repeated use of a drug over a prolonged period of time, causing physical changes in the brain.
Imagination is one of the many fundamentals to a healthy mental life. It has many positives and some negatives which are conveyed in different ways. Authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Thurber express the power of imagination in their short stories through the protagonists by demonstrating that imagination can be used to overcome obstacles of the daily life or how it can bring about fear.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” –Albert Einstein. The power of imagination can be described as invincible. With the use of imagination, one can reach undefined triumphs and create a new, powerful world.
Imagine being in a world where all you could see around you was the distinct reality, no situation was able to be changed into something more it was what it was and nothing else. Imagine as a child you see your dog get ran over by a car and every time you miss the dog you simply imagine that he or she was visiting was traveling the world and you could visit them one day. As a child we tend to protect ourselves from things we may not otherwise understand therefore, we imaging what we might want to see versus the what we do see. There is a simple beauty in the word imagination, it ignites the possibility of everything surround oneself but when imagination takes a strong grip on ones ability
Imagination penetrates below the surface and comprehends and brings to light the deeper forces and facts--the real controlling instincts of characters, the real motives for actions, and the relations of material things to those of the spiritual world and of Man to Nature and God
The human imagination is a very powerful thing. It sets humanity apart from the rest of the creatures that roam the planet by giving them the ability to make creative choices. The imaginary world is unavoidably intertwined with the real world and there are many ways by which to illustrate this through literature, either realistically or exaggerated. Almost everything people surround themselves with is based on the unreal. Everything from the food we eat to the books we read had to have been thought of by someone and their imagination. The imagination empowers humans.^1 It allows people to speculate or to see into the future. It allows artists to create, inventors to invent, and even scientists and mathematicians to solve problems. J.R. Tolken
Have you been through times when you could not go to sleep because of the horror movies that you have watched that day?.Why do we start to get scared after watching something that we know is fictional?.Why we don't think logically?. That's when Imagination takes over.An action of forming new ideas,images,or concepts of external objects that aren't present to the senses is known as imagination.According to the article “importance of imagination” written Tao de haas highlights how good imagination is for life. According to the author tao de haas, imagination is important and good because it ignites passion,stimulates creativity and innovation, but when imagination takes over reasoning(thinking something in a logical way) it becomes frantic.
The human imagination is a very powerful thing. It sets humanity apart from the rest of the creatures that roam the planet by giving them the ability to make creative choices. The imaginary world is unavoidably intertwined with the real world and there are many ways by which to illustrate this through literature, either realistically or exaggerated. Almost everything people surround themselves with is based on the unreal. Everything from the food we eat to the books we read had to have been thought of by someone and their imagination. The imagination empowers humans.^1 It allows people to speculate or to see into the future. It allows artists to create, inventors to invent, and even scientists and mathematicians to solve problems. J.R. Tolken wrote “Lord of the Rings” by sitting in his backyard and imagining everything coming to life.^2 He thought about all the “what if” possibilities. But this method of storytelling can be used in much more subtle and/or sophisticated ways than in science fiction or fantasy novels. Through such works as the short story Dreams and the novel “Headhunter” by Timothy Findley, the film “the Matrix”, and the short story the Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, one can see how a writer can use the concept of the imaginary invading reality to write their story.
The imagination is a wonderful escapism that allows one to deal with reality in another form.