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CREATIVITY

Developing the Dreamer with the impossible

Expand your creativity and have fun

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The Queen told Alice that there were days in which she thought of up to six impossible things before breakfast! This is a great exercise of creativity: once in a while, think (all right, of at least three) things that seem impossible. Examples:

- You flying or crossing walls.

- The world without wars.

- All street children with dwelling and assistance.

- Extraterrestrials with faces of famous artists landing with presents for everybody.

- Earth with two moons, both full.

- A cheese-made Moon

- You reserving three minutes a day to practice this...

They say that a woman has applied this technique to dream up a gift for her husband, and one day he arrived at home and found her half-naked, wrapped in cellophane paper with a ribbon tied around her!

The main benefits of this practice are: increased freedom of thought, which leads to greater creativity, and enhanced mental constructive capacity, base of behaviors and achievements and one of the main characteristic of Disney’s Dreamer. It can be also used to "warm-up" before a creative activity. Besides, it can be entertaining or therapeutic: for example, try doing it when you are in a not so good mood!

Tips

- When you read or hear something concrete, you have to imagine it to understand it. If you understood "cheese-made moon", you have already generated an internal image, which constitutes the meaning of that expression to you. Therefore, you can think of impossible things just formulating appropriate linguistic representations.

- If ideas won't flow, try starting with an object and then search for impossible happenings with that object. For example, a car.

- See Creativity: How to generate different ideas.

V. V. Vilela

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