definition of imagination

Imagination is all the infinite possibilities in reality.Since some of our ideas seem so far-fetched and imaginary (no chance of being real). We see it as imagination, instead of how it fits into the big picture. Our mind being able to somewhat tap into all the infinite possibilities of the universe.

Imagination is considered "a power of the mind," "a creative faculty of the mind," "the mind" itself when in use, and a "process" of the mind used for thinking, scheming, contriving, remembering  creating, fantasizing, and forming opinion.  The term imagination comes from the latin verb imaginari meaning "to picture oneself."  This root definition of the term indicates the self-reflexive property of imagination, emphasizing the imagination as a private sphere.  As a medium, imagination is a world where thought and images are nested in the mind to "form a mental concept of what is not actually present to the senses."  In the sense of the word as a process, imagination is a form of mediation between what is considered "externalized" reality and internalized man (with regard to Manovich and Lacan).  The term is considered "often with the implication that the (mental) conception does not correspond to the reality of things."  Finally, imagination is a term that circulates forms of mass media when the "internalized" private imagination is presented as public, or expressed in a media form, such as film or in virtual reality technology.