Compare And Contrast Reason And Imagination

Reason versus imagination; two ways to describe causes of fear. Reason is our sanity, what keeps us calm and relaxed in alarming or seemingly threatening situations. Imagination is the creating of ideas, envisioning our future. For example, when we think we see something due to fear, it leads us to see things that aren’t there or believe something is far different from what reason or reality tells us. Fear is connected to both of these. For instance, if you fear an abandoned mansion, you probably are thinking of some movies or television shows that transformed a daily eyesore in populous cities into one where you have the potential to be harmed in or around. We fear the simplest things because of what we’ve been taught. We fear dolls, clowns, and even children (believe it or not). Others are fears of reality; fears of heights, spiders, or bridges. But then again, wouldn’t they all seem like our imagination is playing tricks on our sanity and reason? Imagination overcomes reason when we let a little bit of our sanity leave us. Our sanity cancels out fear, and the lack of it …show more content…
Of course, we possess the dictionary definitions: ¨Imagination- the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses. Reason- the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences1.¨ But if we look at what our minds perceive them as, well we need psychology, or the study of the human mind. One psychoanalytic theorist2, Tom Bunn L.C.S.W., says that when the brain is processing between imagination and realism, it’s called mentalization. He says that the ability to do this differs person to person. Some, he believes, recognize imaginary and fake scenarios in cool and calm situations, but not when they are in alarming or dangerous situations. The fear adds in when you take this idea and add it to fearful or terrifying