Which is better excersize for the imagination, reading or daydreaming?

Answer 1

Each serves a different purpose. Spend some time on each one.
It's just like weight lifting and cardio serve different purposes to exercise your body.

Answer 2

One without the other would be akin to trying to walk with just one leg. However, I would say that daydreming is not the most accurate term to use here. I would use 'imagination'. Daydreaming is more of a whimsical activity whereas imagination is a more disciplined exercise.
At any rate. I would submit that imagination and reading are equally important because reading can supply your imagination with material that you can expand upon and thereby expand your understanding.

Answer 3

Daydreaming is also called "reverie." When one reads another's writing, one is participating in that one's imagination.

For example, C. S. Lewis wrote "The Great Divorce," about a man's daydream of traveling to heaven on a bus. It is a great and brief book, and helps exercise one's imagination very well.

So, doing both reading of good books and occasional daydreaming, even writing what one imagines, is good.

Another interesting book of imagination is "The Soulless One," by Mark Prophet, in which he describes what a planet could be like if people didn't pay attention to their imagination and inner child.

Another great book is "Expecting Adam," by Martha Beck, in which imagination and real life are shown to be interactive and helpful. Highly worthwhile.

Http://www.coasttocoastam.com radio has occasional guests who talk to this subject.

best,

j.

Answer 4

Exorcising your imagine of what. The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative and all substance provided to them is all that you shall ever have or need (not to say that is a small amount, on the contrary, it is over whelming). Reading and daydreaming share an enemy, distraction, but reading demands the acceptance of the writers caprice in his or her peculiarities, and therefor the demand is greater as is the resistance found in the physicality in reading (moving the eyes coordinating with every word and line and reproducing vocal inflection for meaning found in that). Certainly you are living more intensely in reading than idle wandering to the day dream, but the day dream its self may produce a more personal capricious experience for which you may demand of your self an explanation.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 5

Good question! I would honestly say that reading for me is a great exercise for the imagination. Novel books is a very good tool for using your imagination. It exercises your ming as you read every line of the sentence. Indeed i enjoyed reading novel books and imagining forms as you read along. It is for me better than watching movies. It is as if it is crystal clear as you imagined.

Thanks for asking. Have a great day!

Answer 6

each is equally important
maybe not so much as daydreaming as the others
but equally important