Why is children's imagination bigger than adults?

Answer 1

thinking back to the time when I was a child I found that i was free to believe in anything and could be anybody, marry anybody etc. then came the realisation that dreams don't always come true, also you learn about fear - most children are fearless so you can be creative then. As you get older you then also start getting more and more responsibility be it at school, home or workplace - relationships change and your behaviour changes too. Now as an adult - we know "better" and the moment we start dreaming wild dreams - we stop them - it is not acceptable to be a dreamer in today's society. Now that i have child en and they are teenagers - i am still trying to encourage them to believe in their dreams - you need them to be yourself and to achieve the impossible

Answer 2

i believe they do as they have not had as many adventure's as adults so that they make it up as they bypass alongside and upload rainbows and dragons to it in case you want! the position as adults have experienced more effective so their mind's eye is brought on on what they have already experienced for this reason making it no longer as resourceful. EG, ask a newborn to imagine something and that is going to come instantly from the heart, ask an individual to imagine an same concern and the first concern they're going to imagine of is what they have experienced and perchance sugar coat it a touch! i do not understand if that is smart written down, yet is smart even as i imagine about it!

Answer 3

I don't think is bigger, but they use it a lot more than adults. Besides they haven't had the experiences of realizing that much of that imagination is not real, so, they still enjoy using their imagination.
Maybe if we learn that, despite the fact that is only our imagination, despite the reality can be sometimes crude and sad, we can still use our imagination when reading, to write, to play with our kids, we would have a happier life.

Answer 4

We spend a child's first few years teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest of their childhood training them to sit and shut up. Children are freer in their imaginations because rules have not been imposed on them yet. Society expects nothing of them yet. They have not tried and failed at parts of life yet. They do not know what limits are. They are still discovering and learning and exploring. Adults have already found the boundaries of their lives (generally speaking) and feel that the "real world" is not made for their imaginations.

Answer 5

You can't spend your entire life with an empty head. The purpose of an imagination is to provoke growth and development, and they've shown that the brain stops learning around the age of 19-20. This roughly means that eventually the imagination stops guessing and devotes itself to what it has accumulated.

Answer 6

my imagination was huge as a child and I loved it! I could create some amazing stories for english!! Unfortunately I think it gets replaced by more mundane things like the mortgage, work, children, partners, family life, putting the car thru the MOT etc etc etc. Oh for the joys of a childs imagination,!

Answer 7

Because they are young and because they don't know about reality yet. We were al the same when we were children. It is an imaginative mind that will develop as they get older. It's a fairy tail world to them and anything is possible.

Answer 8

Children are naturally imaginative because their rational, logical intelligence is not as developed as adults' is. As we grow into adulthood, we are taught by society to display more reasoning and logic in our thought processes.

Also, realize that we, as adults, are prone to believing facts and figures as opposed to intuition and imagination because they provide more proof, therefore validating what we seek to find out.

Answer 9

Anything is possible when you are a child, I wish I could still have that imagination and those beliefs, what a fantastic thing it is to have when cuddling up to you mother was all you needed to make everything better,
and knowing that when you grow up you can be anything you want to be. (if only we knew then what we know now eh) lol x
Good question xx

Answer 10

Facts & Fictions~!

Children often taught with fictions and anything can happen with imaginations. But when they grew older, exposing to facts that not everything we imagined can be realize.