Adults need to develop fantasy to keep their thinking and memory in good shape for years to come.
Instructions
Step 1
The life of an adult is not diverse. For most people, this is home, work, family, friends. In childhood, there is an active knowledge of the world, every day the child discovers new facets of life, learns. Having reached a certain age and experience, he begins to use familiar, working and convenient templates. Over time, strong neural connections are formed in our brain, and we no longer need to learn something new. We stop training the brain and develop. We do many things automatically. The brain's ability to remember is reduced. For example, if you rarely use your arm muscles, your muscles will decrease and your biceps will become smaller. The same thing happens with the brain. The more you use it, the longer it stays in good working order. Why is fantasy important, and not just memorizing numbers or solving crossword puzzles? Because, fantasizing, we use both hemispheres (logical and figurative), and solving crosswords only one thing - logical.
There are quite simple exercises to help develop your imagination. They can be done anywhere. They take little time. Even standing in a traffic jam, you can easily do them. And some are suitable as games for parties with friends or children.
Step 2
Come up with new ways to use familiar things. Find 10 ways to use a pencil? Paint. What else? Massage your hands, use instead of a hole punch, drum sticks, pointers, knitting needles, stir something, loosen the earth in a flower pot, like a sundial, a toy for a cat, etc. Find unusual uses for the most common everyday things.
Look for something new in familiar places. When you go home and enter the staircase, how many steps are there in the entrance staircase? Is there anything unusual near your apartment? What color is the door of the neighbors? How many floors are there in the building opposite? What color are the swings and slides on the playground, etc. Celebrate small things and a variety of non-standard things. If you walk the same road to work, look for other options.
Step 3
Consider people in transport and think about who they might be working for.
What is their character. What movie role could they play in your favorite movie, for example, about Stirlitz? What could interest them? What does their clothes say?
Step 4
Go to shops. Go to an unusual store, grab a completely unfamiliar item and think about how it is used, and then ask the seller for an answer.
Step 5
Draw. Draw a picture in different styles and from any materials at hand. It doesn't matter if you can draw or not. Take paints, pens, plasticine (and they can also make pictures), cereals, sand - create as you can.
Step 6
Compose. Think of poems for someone's birthday, New Year, April 1st and just like that for no reason. You don't have to say that the verse is yours. Another option is to come up with a fairy tale or some kind of story. Write, fantasize, describe different details, come up with characters, their clothes, voices.
Step 7
Find a place in your city where you have never been. Try to visit unfamiliar places at least once a month. Find out something unusual about your city and share it with your friends. When you tell stories, the brain is exercising too.
