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Imaginaiton
Mar. 27th, 2023 11:43 am Discursive meditation revealed something I did not know about myself. I realized I have problem with imagination. What I always thought is imagination is actually visualization of something others imagined. I never had any problems with THAT. However, left to my own devices I tend to think in abstract terms and stop at that. Coming up with different particular examples for an abstract concept is always a struggle. I try to remember of things that I read or encountered in life, but without more explicit prompts I’m usually pretty lost. I think it is a lack of imagination on my part.
I read a lot and that helps somewhat. However, I’m not happy with the fact that Analogies and metaphors do not come for me as easy as I’d like. Or maybe it should be this way and THAT is the point of discursive meditation?
Btw, I recently realized that what I thought is metaphor is actually analogy. Analogies are easier for me than metaphors because I’m used to “translating” words into numbers and graphs and back. Coming up with words that translate into images and feelings is a different story.
I read a lot and that helps somewhat. However, I’m not happy with the fact that Analogies and metaphors do not come for me as easy as I’d like. Or maybe it should be this way and THAT is the point of discursive meditation?
Btw, I recently realized that what I thought is metaphor is actually analogy. Analogies are easier for me than metaphors because I’m used to “translating” words into numbers and graphs and back. Coming up with words that translate into images and feelings is a different story.
