Imagination...

I have a feedback that every other day I come up with a hypothesis that sounds correct(to me) and that ends up having an added advantage of being totally impossible to verify(for others).

That’s almost as good as knowledge for me…(yet another hypothesis it is..)

New hypothesis I have is.. a person’s need for social interaction is inversely related(or proportional) to the quality of his imagination...(special emphasis on the word need)..

What I mean to say is…if you happen to have an excellent imagination…you might enjoy people, but..at the same time.. you’ll be equally happy being alone with your thoughts for long stretches..

In other words…(and to keep it blunt) *you fascinate yourself*.

All this being said with the assumption that…people have widely different powers(or levels) of imagination.

To me, this seems to be a possibility. People are all over the world…with every possible mental ability…

Whatever is happening inside the mind of a person with the worst possible imagination on earth is clearly very different from what’s happening in the mind of the most creative…Just in case…if you happen to have no imagination (of whatsoever kind)..you’ll need to get all of your stimulations from the environment..mostly from other people, or at least TV shows about other people. You turn out to be one of those talkative ..babbling types.

You wouldn’t want to be left alone with your “thoughts” for more than two minutes…you can’t meditate…etc etc..because your empty-thoughtness would scare you to death…

As a workaround…you have to keep your mind engaged 100% of the times…and not giving it a chance to “think”.

On the other end of the spectrum…if your imagination is extraordinary/creative… interaction with other people will just get in the way of incredible/enjoyable experiences you could otherwise be having entirely in your head…

btw…where do you lie on this imagination-spectrum..?

(I had this post since long.. but couldn't get time to post it..things kept me too busy)
Edited: 18-May-2007.