Health & Medicine, UK (Commonwealth Union) – Imagination has always played a key role in the human mind. The thoughts of an individual both positive and negative can have a profound impact on an individual where the positive image can bring joy and hope, whereas the negative image may cause panic and fear that often leads to a negative impact on an individual’s health.
In certain instances, an image can be so intense where an individual may overestimate a situation where if positive can cause the individual to act irrationally expecting a positive outcome and if negative may result in trauma. In both instances the perceived has often been a situation that is far from reality.
Researchers from the University College London (UCL) have found that imagination with increased vividity will cause the individual to believe the image is real in a recent study.
The study appeared in Nature Communications, which had seen the participation of more than 600 individuals that engaged in an online experiment. This involved the participants being instructed to imagine images of alternating black and white lines as they gazed at a computer screen.
Following an imagined stimulus, the participants were
