Stupid over-active imagination!

Bustertheclown · Post by **Bustertheclown** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:37 am

I'll tell you, sometimes having a great imagination is a curse.

Earlier today, I got a stupid chain e-note sent to me talking about a guy who buried a girl alive, and if I don't re-send bla blah, the ghost will come after me. The problem is, I have a particularly over-active imagination, despite being a very logic-oriented and skeptical person. I don't believe in spirits and ghosts, yet my mind can fully form a nicely gruesome image of one based upon short descriptions, like the chain note describing her appearing on my ceiling, and choking me to death. Then, after I start coming up with ghost stories based upon a sentence, complete with internalized special effects that would make George Lucas feel like less of a man, I start looping it through my brain, co-mingled with other horrifying fictitious imagery, until I drive myself crazy.

It's instances like this which convince me that I initially got into drawing because I needed a creative outlet, lest I internalize it all, and the imps of my imagination poke my psyche until I become unravelled. Anyone else feel that way?

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:44 am

I prescribe a twenty-hour-a-day dose of television to cure your imagination problem.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:44 am

I'm one of those people who was born without any imagination at all. I have lots of imaginative friends, however, and pillage their brains for any 'super ideas' I may have. That, religion and history (which I usually get wrong anyway).

The only imagination I seem to have surfaces when I hear stories about people with illnesses, which is why 90% of the time I'm convinced I have cancer, meningitus, tumours, multiple sclerosis or syphilis. (I've only been right once!) This is also why I freak out whenever there's a flickering light in a room, because I keep thinking I'm having a stroke.

Yeah, I'm a high-maintenence kinda gal.

CorpAmis · Post by **CorpAmis** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:25 am

Well...I have a pretty active imagination esp. the visuals....I hear something and I have to imagine it....Right from gruesome murders to kinky sex....So Yeah pretty crazy imaginations....

I even imagine a lot of would be scenes...
Example:
I am going to the mall and I read in the papers the other day that some celeb hit the same mall....I tend imagine scenes and scenes together of what would take place if he/she came that day too.... This is just an example.....

Disclaimer: Not all of them end up in sex......

That guy · Post by **That guy** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:56 am

I have no imagination. Every creative thing I've ever done I purchase directly from the Devil with souls I won in rigged games of cutthroat CandyLand.

BOMC · Post by **BOMC** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:05 am

Whenever I am trying to get to sleep, I find that my imagination runs away from me and produces all these scary images, despite my best efforts to produce sleepy images. I've reigned it in over the years, but it used to make it very hard to get to sleep.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:06 am

My imagination grows as whatever emotion I'm feeling grows. So on your average day I have a decent imagination, but if I'm down I write excellent poetry, and if I'm excited I come up with zany ideas.

... which isn't to say I yo-yo between depressed and over excited a lot.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:31 am

I really only scare myself when I'm lying awake at night and trying to think of things that might be scary...

...and succeeding

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Glarryg · Post by **Glarryg** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:36 am

I never have normal dreams about flying or anything like that. It's always "flying to stop the nuclear bomb that I made myself from going off, but getting caught in telephone wires along the way" kind of stuff. And giant spiders; always with the giant spiders.

Glarryg

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:27 am

That guy wrote:I have no imagination. Every creative thing I've ever done I purchase directly from the Devil with souls I won in rigged games of cutthroat CandyLand.

I KNEW IT!

Stuff like this always gets to me too, especially as I'm falling asleep. Some of my stories get rather gruesome because of it. But the creative outlet helps. I also find it helpful to keep a private journal for venting purposes and whatnot.

Col · Post by **Col** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:37 am

Escushion wrote:I really only scare myself when I'm lying awake at night and trying to think of things that might be scary...

...and succeeding .

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:18 am

What I'm wondering is, if he burried her alive, how comes she has a ghost when she's not dead?

BookOfEwan · Post by **BookOfEwan** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:33 am

McDuffies:-Died in the ground.

Normally I have a kind of wall between thinking me, and my imagination, it's strange, I know it's there and working, and I can randomly add it to conversation with out thinking about it, but it's only when I zone out or try to grab it that I can really visualize any of it.
My dreams however are freaky real, even when they are completely insane or I realise I'm dreaming.
It all makes me feel a bit disconnected.

BrownEyedCat · Post by **BrownEyedCat** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:37 am

I tend to concoct elaborate conspiracy theories about misshelved books in the library.

Other than that, my brain seems to get stuck on whatever it is I'm immersing myself in. For example, I finished reading Moby Dick last night after a slightly grueling read-a-thon, and I dreamt in Ahab-esque dialogue all night. It'll be days before my inner monologue returns to modern English.

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:37 am

I've been able to see things, with full senses including tactile, since I was a little kid. Almost drove me crazy for a while. (Shaddup.

) But I learned to control the images, with some spiritual help. Now I can almost always identify something imaginary, and I can summon or dispel my imaginary creations at will. As a side effect, I dream lucidly. Flying rocks.

Foorley · Post by **Foorley** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:42 am

In my dream I dreamt the solar sytem got sucked into a worm whole

....well i was 11 at the time.

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:55 am

I have a strange imagination, since it's segmented into two levels, serious and comedic. And both of those are very separate and often vie for control over each other. Makes writing a pure comedy series hard when I hit a funk.

I wish my imagination was stronger these days, though.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:04 am

My imagination flies all over the place. But once I sit down at the drafting table, my mind goes blank and laughs at me.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:40 am

PeppermintAfterlife wrote:My imagination flies all over the place. But once I sit down at the drafting table, my mind goes blank and laughs at me.

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:56 am

i always have way too many ideas and it's hard to deal with. the only way for me to cope with it is to release it which can be difficult since i don't have enough time to keep up with my mind. sometimes when an idea is too strong i have to create it even if it's too ambitious to be realistic, which is tough. i'm glad that i was able to get artists for my latest comic project cuz that way i can make the comic without having to spend a ridiculous amount of time drawing it =] although my abandoned comic afflicted was a bad idea since i just didn't have the time or energy to draw a full color page a week in addition to freedom fries. and right now i spontaneously started a 7-page short which i knew would take over a week to do but it was such a strong idea that i had to do it (i'm almost done w/ the 3rd page now). and i have more ideas that i hafta do but i can only draw so much at once =x

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