45- Fifth – Sense of Imagination

Its effect is imagining things that are not before our eyes, regardless of time, place, or dimension. Its center of activity is in the mind and is manifested by the nervous system. Therefore, when imagination is strengthened, the nerves are said to be weakened.
The sense of imagination can visualize both realities and embody unreal matters. One may imagine a ghoul even though he has never seen one before, which the old philosophy regards as inventions. However, inventions emerge from a combination of precedented matters.

Inventors use the sense of imagination immensely, as we see inventors invent things that they have already imagined in their minds.
Without imagination, nothing but seeable things would cross the mind. However, the sense of imagination always creates unseen ideas or inventions necessary for people.
For instance, hashish may weaken the sense of thinking or harm the sense of vision; however, it expands and stimulates imagination and generates unreal spectacles before human eyes, like imagining a bowl of water as a sea. This notion is also true for alcoholic drinks or other narcotics. When an individual imagination becomes more powerful, it means that person has paid attention to his "sense of imagination" and has weakened his "sense of thinking."
Presumption and delusion are also parts of this sense. Children fear unreal phenomena such as monsters, while these are merely visions from their imagination. Sometimes, imagination may strengthen so much that it manifests a matter vividly before the person's eyes. Suicide forms into reality due to envisioning doom by the sense of imagination. Melancholia is also an extreme form of the sense of imagination.

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