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1) My imagination persistently generates daydreams and fantasies without any conscious effort on my part. | ||
2) My daydreams and fantasies frequently produce unexpected themes. | ||
3) Elaborate imaginary themes often come to me instantaneously, seemingly out of nowhere. | ||
4) The products of my imagination are usually ones that I initiate; i.e. they generally don't come on their own. | ||
5) My imagination is usually not spontaneous and surprising, but rather is used/employed in a more controlled fashion. | ||
6) I tend to terminate imaginal exercises once I have reached a pre-determined or desired goal of the activity. | ||
7) When designing or inventing something, or when participating in artistic activities, my imagination often directs the process with little mental deliberation. | ||
8) I am frequently astonished at the scenarios my imagination generates. | ||
9) My imagination produces elaborate scenarios in an instant without prior deliberation on the theme. | ||
10) Imagining is an act I choose to commence; it is rarely something that just "happens to me". | ||
11) I tend to guide the direction of my imaginative processes, rather than relying on the possibility that imagination will autonomously guide the process. | ||
12) I usually terminate impractical or unwanted imaginal exercises by distracting myself, emptying my mind, or by initiating a brand new exercise in imagination. | ||
13) When a friend feels upset my imagination automatically generates an internal image of their predicament, helping me to understand what they are feeling. | ||
14) My imagination tends to conjure/suggest realities contrary to those I would habitually expect. | ||
15) The images and scenarios of my imagination usually take time and persistence to construct. | ||
16) I use my imagination mainly for practical means, eg., like how to work out a problem or construct a useful idea or object. | ||
17) When I imagine something I prefer to control the contents, direction, spatial character, and duration of the imagined scenario. | ||
18) I tend to allow imaginative experiences to reach their own natural conclusion, rather than me calling a halt to the activity. | ||
19) The products of my imagination take considerable effort to construct. | ||
20) The products of my imagination are generally predictable. | ||
21) I frequently find myself imagining something, even when I have not chosen to do so! | ||
22) I often do not have control, nor take control of an imaginative experience, but allow the contents, direction and spatial characteristics of the imaginal presentation to direct themselves. |
The questions in this test are copyrighted (c)-2008 by Jason Thompson