In what cases is imagining something better than reality?

The imagination isn't restricted like the properties of reality are, are there any examples you can think of?In what cases is imagining something better than reality?
horror films, sex, LIFEIn what cases is imagining something better than reality?
They have always worked together to create the world as we know it rather than as God knows it. Here is the thing; If we have any idea... that exists in our mind, we will soon find evidence for it in our world. No 'thing' exists. God Is. All the rest is a fabrication within the ego/mind and a creation of our own making. Reality can only be discerned from the soul and spirit within. What is discerned from without is only an apparent reality in which we are bound by what we believe about it.
Yes, in many cases. Say for example a person who lives in terrible poverty, imagines themselves going to school, improving their life, etc. The process of imagining this is a stepping stone to this becoming a reality. If the person never imagines it, there is very little chance they will reach out to pursue it.





That is why we must feed our imaginations and dreams in a positive way, it leads to us fulfilling them.
Alan Turing, the British genius and inventor, ';invented'; a code-breaking machine in his mind because the British war economy didn't have the equipment to build a real one. He helped break the German ';Enigma'; code.





Ideas are expressed by the mind, and only later wind up in paper or in prototype.
Damned near everything is better imagined than in cold reality (including sex)!





While I don't recommend rape and murder for everybody, they have always worked for ME!





But if you are truly hung-up on poetry, try W. B. Yeats (my favorites are his 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' and 'The Second Coming'). Then, drink a couple beers.
Rape, child murder, and dentistry.
Why would you want to imagine something else, when seeing something positive in reality?


Imagining is better than reality overall for me. But its really alot better to make reality even better.
Several correlational studies in psychology and neuro-psychology have shown that imagining a situation triggers the exact same centers in our brain than actually EXPERIENCING that situation.





So basically, if we fantasize eagerly enough, the emotions that we experience are in no way any less real than the emotions we experience in situations occurring in, so to speak, physical reality.





That doesn't mean that imagining sth is BETTER than reality, but it can be a fair substitute where there is something we can't experience in physical reality, though we would like to be able to do so.











Now from my completelly personal point of view, I think that imagination is something we should all nurture and cherish. I think that in era of television, internet and fast communication we ofter neglect our imaginative skills - we don't need to imagine or fantasize, since everything is usually served to us on a plate.





I feel that, for example, while reading a good book it is better to imagine the setting and characters on your own, instead of instantly googling the drawings and pictures other people have made on that book, in order to build up the world of the book in our mind.





And I think that even without a such purpose as above to serve, it is OK to drift into the realm of imaginative every once in a while, if it makes us feel better. :)





I hope my answer will be in any help to you :)
My imagination is overactively great so nothing is as good as the imaginings of this kid.
Please ask more specific. In what sense better?


Related to your internal feelings... whatever you imagine that enhances reality and makes you feel good.


A random example would be: when you are a prisoner of war and you imagine a big plate of good food instead of rotten bread with water.


Related to solutions to problems: whatever brings solutions to problems that belong to ';reality';.
I think when you love someone you will never have due to circumstances in his life.... imagining can be so much better than the reality. Though you dont want your entire life to transpire soley through imagination no matter how beautiful the dream is.
In almost all cases, imagination is better than reality because all of what we essentially see is the product of one's imagination and thought processes. Reality then, to a great extent at least, is a dividend of people's imaginations over the course of history. People have dreamt of soaring like birds, and it was the efforts of the Wright brothers and many other unsung heroes that brought that idea to fruition. The same can be said for an improvement on that achievement, to ascend into space and to tear asunder the old adage that ';sky is the limit';. To paraphrase Karl Marx, a notable German philosopher, what separates the worst of architects from the best of bees is that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. Imagination then, is both an important aspect of the human species, and when coupled with the ability to communicate, has produced every milestone known to date. Imagination has no fixed boundary; it need not succumb to the laws of physics or any other axiom. Reality on the contrary must succumb to every law that science has since exposed. And because imagination is unlimited whilst reality is limited almost to the point of humdrum stagnation, human imagination can then be deemed as ';breathing life'; into the once-boring state of reality. Even in the Book of Genesis, God did not produce Man from 'reality' per se. It was the statement ';Let Us make Man in Our image'; that from there brought Humans to our worldly state of affairs.