I analogize.
  I do it a lot.
  Helps me comprehend.
  Helps me explain.

  I see things regarding ideas, imagination, mind, perfection,
  ideals, etc as this:

  Lines on paper.

  But they are lines on paper in an optical illusion way:

  We see a line as straight that is drawn. Our mind may record
  lines as straight and perfect.

  But zoom in? Not perfect. Not 2D. Not even close.

  Yet, we manipulate the optical illusion lines very well in our
  minds; we have visual systems attuned to outlining. Helps us
  with viewing perspective and such.

  The "realness" or "realer than real" qualities that we tend to
  give this thing called "imagination" I think, is ultimately due
  to how we incorrectly process lines in our visual system.

  I believe the machinery is in there and it is used for ideas.
  Things move faster in the imagination because there's less bulky
  stuff holding it back. Even Time flows more freely in
  imagination, allowing us to travel freely back and forth through
  time linguistically without any issue at all, while our bodies
  lumber along as they do.

  I believe ideas are physically real but some of the machines
  they produce - like systems of ideas and such, always suffer
  from a major flaw: they're illusionary. Physically real in the
  way that our brains process lines and consider them 1D or 2D
  things... but not real in the slower world out 'here'.'

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