imaginative worlds
Fiction's crafted settings
Imaginative worlds are fictional settings created through fantasy, speculation, or creative invention—the realms of novels, films, games, and daydreams.
The phrase emphasizes constructed realities distinct from the actual world: Children often retreat into imaginative worlds of their own making.
In education and psychology, engagement with imaginative worlds is considered essential to creativity and cognitive development.
- make believeImaginative fantasy play
- fairy taleMagical children's narrative
- fantasy realmFictional magical setting
- spaceshipVehicle for interplanetary travel
- magicSupernatural or illusory power
novel · avatar · role playing · lucid dreaming · subconscious · narrative · MMORPG · sandbox · allegory · dragon · archetype · alien · steampunk · dystopia · cyberpunk · surrealism · wizard · protagonist
- Outsider Artnaive art, primitive art, self-taught artists, emotional honesty, religious visions
- Nordic children's booksfolktales, trolls, picture books, illustrated books, talking animals
imaginative worldsreality
What actually exists
terra firma · the here and now · ordinary life · lived experience · waking life
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