Five tests will help you understand the full scope of your imagination
Reckon you are highly imaginative? Or fear you are lacking in the creativity department? Put your presumptions to the test, with these challenges from cognitive neurologist, Adam Zeman
Call to your mind’s eye mid-winter, or a red balloon. What comes up? Vivid images of bare trees and rain zipping sideways, a bobbing balloon on a long string – or the look of the words, the ideas they denote, the feelings you link to them? The type and vividness of imagination we have vary greatly (see “The extremes of imagination reveal how our brains perceive reality”). As it exists in several forms, no single test can measure it – but here is a handful of ways to gauge the resources of your own imagination.
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