Exercises for imagination and fantasy. How to develop imagination

Elena Sergeeva
Games and exercises for the development of imagination in preschoolers 5–7 years old

Imagination- is not nothing, as a mental process, due to which a person gets the opportunity to draw new images based on existing life experience. Imagination allows a preschool child age to find their place in the world, realize their abilities, and also contributes to the understanding of the school curriculum, that is, it prepares the baby for schooling.

The didactic game has long been used as one of the effective means by which you can develop imagination in an older child preschool age

Games and exercises for the development of imagination in preschoolers 5 - 7 years old

1. An exercise"What are our palms»

Target: development of imagination and attention.

Invite the children to circle their own with paints or pencils. palm(or two) and imagine, imagine "What could it be?" (tree, birds, butterfly, etc.). Offer to create a drawing based on the circled palms.

2. Game - an exercise"Three Colors".

Target: development artistic perception and imagination.

Invite the children to take three paints, in their opinion, the most suitable for each other, and fill the entire sheet with them in any way. What does the drawing look like?

3. An exercise"Magic blots".

Target:

Offer to drop any paint on the middle of the sheet and fold the sheet in half. Various blots turned out, children need to see in their blot what it looks like or who it is.

4. An exercise"Magic Thread".

Target: development of creative imagination; learn to find the similarity of the image of unclear outlines with real images and objects.

In the presence of children, dip a thread 30-40 cm long in ink and put it on a sheet of paper, arbitrarily folding. Put another sheet on top of the thread and press it to the bottom. Pull out the thread while holding the sheets. A trace will remain on the paper from the thread, the children are invited to identify and give a name to the resulting image.

5. Game - "Unfinished Drawing".

Target: development of creative imagination.

Children are given sheets with the image of unfinished objects. It is proposed to finish the object and tell about your drawing.

6. An exercise"Wizards".

Target: development imagination.

Without a preliminary conversation, invite the children to use pencils to turn two completely identical figures depicted on the sheet into an evil and good wizard. Next, offer to come up with what you did wrong "evil" wizard and how he was defeated "kind".

7. An exercise"Dance".

Target: development emotionality and creativity imagination.

Invite the children to come up with their own image and dance it to certain music. The rest of the children must guess which image is conceived.

Options - the image is set, all the children dance at the same time ( "blooming flower", "affectionate cat", "snowfall", "happy monkey" etc.).

Complication - to convey feelings in the dance ( "joy", "fear", "astonishment" etc.)

8. An exercise"What the Music Said".

Target: development of creative imagination.

Classical music sounds. Children are invited to close their eyes and imagine what the music is about, and then draw their ideas and talk about them.

9. Game "What it is?"

Target: to teach children, based on the perception of substitute objects, to create in imagining new images.

Circles of different colors are used, strips of different lengths. Children stand in a circle. The teacher shows one of the colored circles, puts it in the center and offers to tell what it looks like. Answers should not repeat each other.

10. Game "Pebbles on the Shore".

Target: learn to create new images based on the perception of schematic images.

A large picture depicting the seashore is used. 7-10 pebbles of various shapes are drawn. Everyone should have a resemblance to some object, animal, person.

The teacher tells: “A magician walked along this shore and turned everything that was in his path into pebbles. You have to guess what was on the shore, say about each pebble, who or what it looks like. It is desirable that several pebbles have almost the same contour. Next, invite the children to come up with a story about their pebble How did he end up on the beach? What happened to him? Etc.

11. An exercise"Magic Mosaic".

Target: to teach children to create in imagining things, based on a schematic representation of the details of these items.

Sets of geometric shapes cut out of thick cardboard are used (same for each child): several circles, squares, triangles, rectangles of different sizes.

The teacher distributes sets and says that this is a magical mosaic from which you can add a lot of interesting things. To do this, you need different figures, whoever wants to, attach to each other so that some kind of image is obtained. Offer competition: who will be able to add more different objects from their mosaic and come up with some kind of story about one or more objects.

12. Game "Help the Artist".

Target: teach children imagine items based on the scheme given to them.

Material: a large sheet of paper attached to a blackboard with a sketch of a person drawn on it. Colored pencils or paints.

The teacher says that one artist did not have time to finish the picture and asked the guys to help him finish the picture. Together with the teacher, the children discuss what and what color is better to draw. The most interesting proposals are embodied in the picture. Gradually, the scheme is completed, turning into a drawing.

Then invite the children to come up with a story about a drawn person.

13. Game "Magic Pictures".

Target: learn imagine objects and situations based on schematic representations of individual details of objects.

The children are given cards. On each card is a schematic representation of some details of objects and geometric shapes. Each image is located on the card so that there is free space for drawing the picture. Children use colored pencils.

Each figure shown on the card, the children can turn into a picture they want. To do this, you need to add anything to the figure. At the end of the drawing, the children compose stories based on their paintings.

14. Game "Wonderful Transformations".

Target: to teach children to create in imagination objects and situations based on visual models.

The teacher gives the children pictures with images of substitute objects, each has three strips of different lengths, three circles of different colors. Children are invited to look at the pictures, come up with what they mean, draw the corresponding picture on their sheet with colored pencils. (multiple possible). Completed drawings are analyzed by the teacher together with children: marks their compliance with the depicted substitute objects (in shape, color, size, quantity, originality of content and composition.

15. Game "Wonderful Forest".

Target: learn to create in imagination situations based on their schematic representation.

Children are given identical sheets, several trees are drawn on them, and unfinished, unformed images are located in different places. The teacher offers to draw a forest full of miracles with colored pencils and tell a fairy tale about it. Unfinished images can be turned into real or fictional objects.

For the assignment, you can use material on other themes: "Wonderful Sea", "Wonderful meadow", "Wonderful Park" other.

16. Game "Shifters".

Target: learn to create in imagination images of objects based on the perception of schematic images of individual details of these objects.

Children are given sets of 4 identical cards, on the cards there are abstract schematic images. Exercise children: Each card can be turned into any picture. Stick the card on a piece of paper and draw whatever you want with colored pencils to make a picture. Then take another card, stick it on the next sheet, draw again, but on the other side of the card, that is, turn the figure into another picture. You can flip the card and sheet of paper as you want when drawing! Thus, you can turn a card with the same figure into different pictures. The game continues until all the children finish drawing the figures. Then the children talk about their drawings.

17. Game "Different Tales".

Target: teach children imagine different situations using a visual model as a plan.

The teacher builds any sequence of images on the demonstration board (two standing men, two running men, three trees, a house, a bear, a fox, a princess, etc.). Children are invited to come up with a fairy tale from the pictures, following their sequence.

You can use various options: the child independently composes the whole fairy tale, the next kid should not repeat his plot. If it is difficult for children, you can compose a fairy tale for everyone simultaneously: the first one starts, the next one continues. Then the images change places and a new fairy tale is composed.

18. An exercise"Come up with your own ending".

Target: development of creative imagination.

Invite children to change and compose their own end of familiar fairy tales.

“Kolobok didn’t sit on the fox’s tongue, but rolled on and met ...”.

"The wolf failed to eat the goats because..." etc.

19. Game "Good bad" or "Chain of contradictions".

Target: development of creative imagination by looking for contradictions.

The teacher starts "BUT" good because "B". The child continues "B" bad because "AT". The next one says - "AT" good because "G" etc.

Example: walking is good, because the sun is shining. The sun is shining - bad, because it's hot. Hot is good, because it's summer, etc.

20. The game "Fairytale animal (plant)».

Target: development of creative imagination.

Invite the children to come up with and draw a fantastic animal or plant that does not look like a real one. Having drawn a picture, each child talks about what he has drawn, comes up with a name for what he has drawn. Other children are looking for features of real animals in his drawing. (plants).

21. An exercise"Fairy tale - story".

Target: development of creative imagination ability to distinguish reality from fantasy.

After reading a fairy tale, children, with the help of an educator, separate in it what can really happen from what is fantastic. There are two stories. One is completely fantastic, the other is completely real.

similar games and exercises you can compose an infinite number, everything depends only on the creative adult imagination who set themselves the goal of helping every child grow up creatively gifted, thinking outside the box, successful

7 exercises for " Development of the imagination"from the book of Boreev G. "Conscious exits from the body. Nine practical methods. (Techniques for achieving physical immortality)".

Imagination development - First exercise

Choose an object at eye level at a distance of 1 - 3 meters. The subject to begin with should be very simple: a book, a pen, a matchbox. Close your eyes, imagine a white, empty luminous space. Keep a clear image of it in your mind's eye for 3 to 5 minutes. Then open your eyes and contemplate the object for 3-5 minutes. At the same time, do not think about it, but simply look through it, as if you are looking into the distance, trying to capture the subject as a whole. Close your eyes and imagine this object in your imagination, placing it in a white luminous space for 3 to 5 minutes. The exercise should be done 5-8 times, trying to perform it calmly, without straining, without effort of will.

Development of imagination - Second exercise

Lying in bed, before going to sleep, close your eyes and imagine a black letter "A" on a white background. Keep the image of the letter in your mind for a few minutes. The letter can change in shape, float away, decrease - calmly return it to its original place in its original form. The next day, imagine the letter "B" in the same way. Hold the letter in your imagination until the image is clearly fixed. At the next stage of this exercise, hold the combinations of the letters "AB", then "VG" and so on. Then hold in your imagination already three letters. Some people immediately manage to keep 5 or more letters on the mental screen. Work further, bring the number of letters held in the imagination to ten. Exercise helps to develop concentration, expand the scope of perception, improve memory.

Development of imagination - Third exercise

Imagine a small red square, fix it in your mind. Now imagine that the square increases in size, diverges with faces to infinity. Now you have a red space in front of you, contemplate it. The next day, do the same experiment with the orange space. Then with yellow, green, blue, blue and purple. Having learned this, move on to more complex things. Imagine first a red color, smoothly turning into orange, orange turning into yellow, and so on until purple. Then from purple you need to go back. Then imagine red-skinned people walking through a green forest. The skin of people gradually becomes orange, yellow - and so on to purple. Then it gradually turns red again.

Development of imagination - Fourth exercise

Imagine an apple. Start rotating it in space clockwise. Imagine how it flies out of your head and flies around the room. Place the apple in front of your nose, look at it. Carefully try to mentally enter it, feel yourself in its size, shape. Then fly in an apple from the body one meter up and look at the world from this point. You should see your body below, the walls of the room, the furniture, the close ceiling. This exercise should be done while sitting in an armchair or lying on a bed, since an involuntary exit to the astral world is possible. It is extremely important during the exercise not to lose control over yourself. If you feel something is wrong, immediately open your eyes.

Development of imagination - Fifth exercise

Look closely at any item. Close your eyes, try to see the same object in the same place. Open your eyes, compare the imaginary object with the real one. Close your eyes again. Open. Strive for the maximum identity of the physical and the imaginary. As you move forward in your studies, the subjects under consideration should become more and more difficult. Then start looking at animals and people like that. After fully mastering this exercise, you will be able to look at a person with your eyes closed and see the aura and internal organs of his body.

Development of imagination - Sixth exercise

Learn to create some mental image in space with open eyes. For example, imagine that you have a vase with different flowers on your table. Try to see her there.

Imagination development - Seventh exercise

Take mental journeys. Imagine how you walked around the room, hall, kitchen, went out into the corridor, returned. Imagine how you left the house, walk down the street, get on the bus, go to the forest, to the river, swim, and so on.

Still need some creativity and developed imagination.

Imagination is the ability of a person to create images (in - image- enie) spontaneously in any situation, connect these images with some idea, and all this can result in a fairy tale or a fable or a true story and fiction. That is, if you began to develop this quality in yourself, then later you will see that you want more - something complete, so that there are not just some images, but that all this is perceived as a complete and interesting story. Then a person is perceived as a person with greater significance, this is appreciated not only by girls, but by all people, therefore, having the ability to imagine is a valuable quality and a necessary thing for a pickup truck (we will develop it below).

To summarize: the meaning of the word imagination - in two words - is think in images. It would seem that there is a situation, and our senses (for example: eyes) do not see any images, and the guy next to him painted the situation in images so beautifully that everyone "rolled on the floor with laughter."

Fantasy It is a kind of creative imagination. And, as it turns out, not everyone knows how to fantasize, and some do not succeed very well. It is very important for the development of the imagination to visit different places, countries, travel, be at different parties and events, watch movies, know everything new (trends, fashion), because only through this experience will you be able to imagine (psychology).

Dream is also a product of the imagination. Very useful and very necessary in life. The one who can dream - develops faster. Do not let life's difficulties - "plug" these processes.

In general, how to develop thinking and good imagination it should be from childhood, because it is like a foreign language, it is easier to learn languages ​​in childhood, but at an age it is more difficult, and here too. If parents or teachers took care of the development of the imagination, then there would be no particular problems, so smart parents send their children to progressive schools.

Types of human imagination

To understand better let's take a look at varieties:

1. active imagination- this is when a person tries and makes certain efforts to manifest this process (if it is not developed in childhood, then you have to work harder)

2. passive imagination- this is when it works unintentionally, for example, if you worked with it in childhood, then it works in a passive mode and there is no need to strain.

That is, it is clear, probably, that in the process of development, the active is able to pass into the passive.

Techniques for Modeling the Imagination

a) hyperbole- this is an increase in the properties, qualities of the image of the object. (For example: she has such big ears like a Cheburashka). Antonym - miniaturization (reducing the qualities and intensity of the properties of an object or person through images)

b) Agglutination- the connection of objects that are not connected in reality through images.

c) Permutation - moving the properties or parts of an object and presenting the object in a new image.

d) Substitution - replacement of parts of an object or image.

e) Complexation - the combination of parts into a single whole (possibly incompatible and at first glance, but how did he imagine it this way? And so...)

h) Regeneration- restoration of the missing areas of the image (completion).

i) Typification - the allocation of some common features in objects or phenomena (manifested with a developed imagination).

j) Transformation - the transformation of a form into some other. (For example: Katya, you are so slim today like a birch)

These views will be enough to start developing your imagination ... start introducing one view per day, for example, or a week into your speech and thinking.

What are the characteristics of imagination

1. accuracy- as your imagination develops, the images that you will generate will be more and more accurate; At first, I will laugh at your images, or vice versa there will be no reaction, in this case you need to understand that while your imagination is tight, but everything develops through modeling methods (listed above). Also watch Comedy Club, Comedy Woman and so on, there is simply a hyper-developed imagination.
2. Flexibility- at first, too, everything is flat in this matter, then it will be more flexible and cooler.
3. Originality- if at first you will repeat the fruits of someone's imagination, then as this skill develops, you will already generate your own and original.
4. Fluency- this means that as you develop, everything will turn out much faster, train.

How to develop imagination - exercises

Exercise 1: develop ideas, for example, run through them in the morning:

• visual representations: forest, rose, hollow, boat, dog, smile.
• auditory representations: the sound of the surf, the beat of a drum, as the alien says, the barking of a dog;
• olfactory representations: the smell of a rose, the smell of the sea, mud, the freshness of the forest coolness, the smell of wild strawberries;
• tactile representations: a prick of the game, someone pinched you, kissed your ear, a wasp crawls along your arm, velvet skin, imagine how the iphone 7 is in your hands (and what it feels like).
• motor representations: swimming, you are as agile as spiderman, biceps swing, kiss.

Exercise 2 is an imaginative game

Games are a very powerful developmental action, so in childhood it is "in bulk". Don't avoid them if you want to develop your own imagination. What games would be appropriate and well suited here:

1. "play with words"- one person comes up with the first word with a certain letter, then the second person also with the same letter, and so on, but you need to come up with and tie it to one idea, for example - to create a poem further from them or right along the way, to create a saying, fable, fairy tales.
2. "the game is your story"- try to invent a story from the words that the listeners will offer you or, for starters, just any story. In any case, it is usually better to take supporting words in these games.
3. "game - what would happen if ..."One person says, for example:" What if aliens landed near your house and extended their hand to you and said - come to us ...", or "What would happen if Moscow turned out to be an island surrounded by the sea ... " and so on, you can come up with fantastically funny questions and answers, which is a powerful impetus for the development of your imagination.
4. "game - compose a fairy tale, fable, riddle, saying"- this is already more difficult, for teachers it will go to the second stage.

Exercise 3: Read imaginatively

That is, if in the text you see a description of the city, the market, nature, the body, the situation - try to imagine it all, do not jump in these places and then it will improve your abilities in imagination.

Exercise 4

study and, they have a lot of valuable ... take them apart piece by piece.

Exercise 5

take a geographical map and walk along different routes, this will also be food for the development of the imagination.

Exercise 6

try not to drink alcohol - although it improves the imagination in the first moments or months, but then the brain degrades, permanent memory disappears and the imagination will be poor or sick, but not good at all.

Develop this skill and eventually you will know what the power of imagination is.

As Einstein said, logic will take you from one point to another, but imagination can take you anywhere. People with a developed imagination are dreamers who know how to enjoy life, because even in the most difficult situations they can come up with an unexpected solution. That is why it is very important to develop the imagination of adults and not to suppress it in children. We all know how children love to imagine, but adults often, without realizing it, stifle this way of thinking of a small person in the bud. As a result, people incapable of creative thinking, ordinary people, grow up. However, our goal is to prove that imagination can be developed at any age.

What is imagination?

Imagination is a kind of creative thinking of a person, in which he independently creates new images, ideas, opens up unprecedented horizons. Very often, it is the dreamers who become discoverers in a wide variety of areas of life:

• Sergei Pavlovich Korolev dreamed of conquering space and became the leading developer and designer of rockets in the USSR.
• Pablo Picasso had an incredible imagination, you can see this by looking at his brilliant paintings, which, by the way, not everyone can understand.
• Alexander Flemming dreamed that he would find a cure for infections. And so it happened, he discovered penicillin, which saved many people from terrible diseases.
• The great experimenter Thomas Edison lit up the whole world with his incandescent lamp. However, this was preceded not only by a developed imagination, but also by incredibly hard work.

You can continue indefinitely, there are many people with a developed imagination among scientific and creative figures.

One of the varieties of imagination is recreative thinking, thanks to which a person “thinks out” what he has not seen before, what he has not encountered in the past. Unlike memory, recreative imagination is incredibly flexible and dynamic.

The complexity of the development of the imagination lies in the fact that it is difficult to formalize, control and subordinate to any algorithm. However, the good news is that every person has imagination, therefore, it can be developed at any time.

Household tools and exercises to develop the imagination

In order for imagination to develop on its own, it is necessary to stimulate those parts of the brain that are responsible for life experience. It turns out that the more irritants a person receives, the more developed his imagination. So, household means for the development of imagination, available to every person:

• You need to communicate with a lot of people.
• Participate in a variety of community activities.
• Do more and more things every day.
• There is no need to follow the knurled road, one should choose unknown paths. This applies not only to walking or driving, but also to decision-making methods.

Consider 2 very productive methods that help develop imagination at any age.

Developing the imagination by expanding the number of models of the world

The model of the world is perceived differently by different people, so it is difficult to talk about objectivity in the interpretation of reality. This formulation is well reflected by the saying "There are no comrades for the taste and color." However, any model of the world can be expanded by trying to understand the point of view of other people and their idea of ​​the world. In everyday communication, try to put yourself in the place of the interlocutor and see the world through his eyes. Experiment - today you are a child, tomorrow you are an elderly neighbor, and the day after tomorrow you are a soldier who has returned from the army. All these mental reincarnations will positively affect your creative thinking.

Reading - tell me what your favorite book is and I'll tell you who you are!

Books are an inexhaustible simulator for the imagination. As the saying goes, "A book is a small window through which you can see the whole world." While reading fiction, images are visualized. For the development of the imagination, it is recommended to choose detective novels, adventures, popular science fiction. Quite effectively affects the imagination of a person and poetry. However, fans of day and night reading should be aware that books are not the only way to develop creative thinking and imagination. Over time, avid readers get used to receiving other people's thoughts, their mind does not work to the fullest, so books must be alternated with other exercises. The optimal reading rhythm for everyone is different, as a rule, reading 1-5 books a month can be considered useful.

Imagination exercises during a creative crisis

A lack of imagination often worries creative individuals who, by their calling, are forced to constantly work with fantasy. Here are some exercises that will help you discover your writing talent or train your imagination:

• Take a pen or pencil and colorfully describe the place where you like to relax.
• Imagine that an unexpected guest came to you at 4 o'clock in the morning. What do you tell him? Write it down on paper.
• Write a short story on a philosophical topic, such as what is the meaning of life?
• Create a message for yourself in the future. Refer to yourself in 10 years, ask or advise, tell about yourself and try to guess what you will be doing in the future.
• Find yourself 250 options for activities if you had an extra week.

Game exercises that develop the imagination

• Unraveling drudles. Drudles are simple scribble-like pictures containing several interpretations. The person is asked to say what he sees in the image. Interestingly, there are no right and wrong answers. The very process of finding the answer is training.
• Word game. The standard game can be complicated by new rules. For example, you need to name only those words whose symbols will fit in a five-liter barrel. Or name only those items that are in the house.
• Description of images. A very effective method, especially for children. Show the child any illustration and ask him to tell what he sees. You will be surprised by the boundless imagination of the little explorer.
• Adults will love this game. When traveling on the subway or other public transport, try to come up with in your mind for any passenger his biography - first name, last name, year of birth, highlights of life. Guess his occupation and hobby. Such a game can be a great option for spending time with friends in the park or any other crowded place.

Computer exercises for the development of imagination

It is impossible to describe all the techniques for training a person's fantasy. Now a variety of online simulators are very popular, allowing you to fantasize and develop your imagination anywhere - on a trip, during a break at work, at home.

Our Brain Apps service presents a series of wonderful games that help develop imagination and creativity. These are games from the section "Thinking". We also recommend visiting the section Tasks, in which you will find interesting riddles with a trick.

Remember that imagination is a gift to be used. If you do not use fantasy, then very soon you can turn into an ordinary and boring person who is not interesting to anyone. Dare!

Imagination is the unique ability of a person's consciousness to create images, ideas, new ideas and objects from objects that in the real world are not perceived by him as a whole (they do not exist or are not compatible).

Imagination is a form of mental reflection of the world, the basis of visual-figurative thinking, which allows a person to solve the tasks assigned to him without resorting to practical actions. Consciousness allows us not only to transform familiar things, but also to use them for our own purposes. It allows a person to plan, model, create, play and remember.

Important! Imagination develops in childhood and improves in adulthood, but only in the case of constant training.

Not knowing how to develop fantasy and imagination, it is necessary to pay attention to the exercises described below and reading good books.

How to develop imagination (exercises for training) for adults

Many adults suffer from a lack of imagination. They cannot compose a children's story, come up with a good joke, create a picture or sew a carnival costume.

The reason for this is seen as a lack of talent, but in reality it's all about a lack of imagination. To develop it, there are special exercises, the consistent implementation of which will help to cope with the lack of imagination.

Attention Rhythm Training

To perform this exercise, you need to relax, focus all your attention on the hands. The head should be freed from any thoughts. Every day you need to exercise at least 5-10 minutes. In this case, you can change the position of the body and the angle of view.

The main thing is the full concentration of attention on the object under study in the absence of any extraneous thoughts. It is allowed to blink, it is undesirable to look away, you need to look at your hands all the time.

The exercise is considered completed if, during the entire allotted time, it turns out to pay attention exclusively to the hands, without looking at other objects in the room. With the help of this exercise, we develop imagination in adults quickly enough.

Erasing imprint

In the room you need to find an eye-catching object and concentrate on it for 5 seconds, trying to mentally photograph it. Closing your eyes and holding your breath, you need to reproduce the object from memory. On exhalation, it is necessary to free the consciousness from the imprinted image, erasing it.

The exercise is performed repeatedly, at least 50 seals and erasures must be made per day. At the same time, the time for the exercise is chosen arbitrarily, it is not worth predetermining it. Such training of the imagination takes no more than 10-15 minutes a day. Each time you can choose different objects to study.

Retention Imprints

For 3-10 minutes they look at the object, after which, with their eyes closed, they restore its image in the mind. You need to imagine the object in color. One approach - imprinting and holding, takes from 5 to 15 minutes of time.

The main purpose of the exercise is to learn to feel parts of the body and surrounding objects. They proceed to the next exercise if a person clearly imagines an imaginary object with his eyes closed.

As soon as this succeeds, you should transfer the image to a white sheet of paper, learn to memorize pictures, book pages, works. Training allows you to reach the 6th level of imagination development.

stop a moment

Choose a specific picture, quickly look at it, close your eyes, reproduce individual details from memory. It will be difficult, but by training up to 15 times a day, you can bring the picture retention time to 5 minutes. It is impossible to think at the same time, the consciousness must be freed from any thoughts for at least 15 seconds.

instant photo

Choose an object or a passer-by on the street, close your eyes and imagine it to yourself exactly the same as in reality. Repeated training will allow you to imagine a memorable object against a different background, but with your eyes open.

live photography

Choose a passerby, take a glimpse of him, close your eyes, mentally imagine, and then try to revive the resulting mental picture, forcing him to continue moving.

At first, this may not work out, but after 2-3 weeks of training, the photo in the imagination can be revived. Mistakes can be avoided by comparing the imaginary image with the actual actions of the object.

Photo manipulation

Having imagined a specific object, you need to try to change its position in space, shape and size. Several objects can be combined into one and vice versa, the whole picture can be decomposed into separate fragments.

figures

We ask someone to spread the matches on the table and cover them with paper. For an instant, a sheet of paper rises and the exerciser remembers the resulting figure. He closes his eyes and mentally imagines what he saw, trying not only to put the matches in their places, but also to count them.

As soon as this is done in the imagination, you need to take more matches and lay out the figure on a separate sheet, then lift the first sheet and compare the original with what happened. The exercise is performed until the two figures completely coincide. At the same time, in the process of studying them, they pay attention to the color, quantity and quality of matches.

Imagination training is considered completed if at least 10 matches in a row are kept in the mind of the location.

The ability to see the main and features

You need 200-300 matches. The assistant dictates various words, and the exerciser lays out the appropriate associations from matches. Words are dictated at intervals of 1 minute, but as the result improves, this time is reduced to 30 seconds.

The exercise is considered completed if it is possible to reproduce at least 50 words, while not only making associations, but also reproducing the received words aloud after the completion of the dictation.

Important! A developed imagination makes life brighter. The ability to create images, think outside the box, draw parallels and associations helps in work and personal life.

With the help of the exercises described above, one can achieve significant success in developing the imagination, even among those people who did not suspect such an ability.

Techniques for creating images of the imagination

To create an image of an object in the imagination, the following techniques for creating images of the imagination are used:

1. combination. Separate objects or elements are rearranged in such a way that a new unusual combination is obtained as a result. This technique is used when writing pictures, books, poems, making innovative discoveries. To combine objects, a simple mechanical combination of individual sides of the object is not used. A new image is obtained as a result of a complex analytical and synthetic activity that transforms elements beyond recognition. It is this method that artists and writers use, adjusting individual elements to an already existing idea.
2. Agglutination. A special case of combination, the essence of which is to obtain a new image by gluing individual representations into one. An example is the combination of human and animal body parts in a fairy-tale hero. In technology, agglutination has found application in the creation of a trolleybus ("gluing" a bus and a tram).
3. accentuation. When creating a new image, some parts of the old one are omitted, while others are highlighted. By emphasizing the color, but omitting the size of the item, you can get a completely new item.
4. sharpening. A special case of emphasis. Attention is drawn to the height, weight, size of the character, object. As an example, you can use the gigantic growth of giants and the insignificant size of Thumbelina.
5. Schematization. When considering objects, differences are erased, individual representations are smoothed out, while common features are put on display. It is used when creating scientific and technical objects.
6. Typing. In the process of typing, essential and repetitive elements are projected onto a separate, completely new image. There is a synthesis of individual images. This technique is used in the literature.

The use of the techniques outlined above greatly facilitates the task of developing the imagination in adults.

Development of creative imagination

Creative imagination is a kind of creative activity of consciousness, during which completely new images and ideas are formed. At the same time, existing ones can be taken as a basis.

Important! The development of the imagination is impossible without reading books, replenishing one's vocabulary, and making associations.

If there is no time for this, then you can perform the following exercises to develop your imagination:

1. Letters. They choose any letter from the alphabet, after which they name all the objects in the room that begin with this letter. By regularly exercising, you can not only develop attention and memory, but also fantasy and thinking. Missing items can be imagined.
2. We name and describe. Choose any picture you like and try to name and describe it yourself. The same exercise can be applied to people and objects. It allows you to develop not only creative abilities, but also the basics of creative thinking.
3. Geometry. Find geometric drawings and try to name the objects that they are trying to depict with their help.

By exercising at least 10-20 minutes a day, you can significantly improve your naturally inherent creativity, enrich yourself intellectually, and develop your memory. The development of creative imagination is a long but interesting process.

Books that develop the imagination

Many rationally thinking people refuse to read books written in the genre of science fiction and fantasy, do not read fairy tales and stories where the author is deliberately lying. They believe that such reading is intended for children and adolescents and is unworthy of an adult. In reality, this is not so.

Fairy tales and interesting fantasy stories help to develop imagination not only in children, but also in adults. If reading something like this is not interesting, you can study one of the following developmental books:

• "Six Thinking Hats" (Edward de Bono);
• Mind Games (Michael Michalko);
• "Methods for the development of memory, figurative imagination, thinking" (Igor Matyugin).

Interesting, but far from scientific works that allow you to significantly expand the limits of reason, are books for the development of the imagination, by the following authors:

• Stephen King;
• Joanne Rowling;
• Michael Crichton;
• Patrick Suskind;
• Michael Bulgakov.

It is worth dwelling once again on the fact that reading science fiction helps to develop the imagination to an unprecedented scale. That is why small children make up funny stories about their toys, parents, friends with such ease, while adults find it difficult to do so. In childhood, everyone fantasized, but having matured, they forgot about this ability.

A person may well exist without imagination, but the ability to recreate new images and ideas is never superfluous.