role in Creative professions to be imprinted on a person's subconscious. Thanks to this, a person remembers old and recent events, in the prs is called the ability to imagine lost things in a person's mind, to preserve their image, to manipulate it in consciousness. It is sometimes confused with, but really they are two different thought processes.

It is not so much real as it has an element of fantasy and dream. Even the most practical, skeptical, boring people have an Imagination. . The behavior of these people is governed by their principles, logic, truth, they always do everything according to the rules. But to say that they completely lack creative thinking or that they do not dream is very wrong. This is just the type of people where these processes are not developed enough or they don't use them, or don't know how to use them. . Creative imagination makes people individual, non-repetitive personalities.

Imagination as a mental process has several functions that help a person to be special.

cognitive function is contained in the expansion of a person's horizons, gaining knowledge, developing a person's behavior in an uncertain situation, guided by assumptions and considerations. 

Function of prediction suggests that the properties of imagination help a person imagine the result of an unfinished action. 

Understanding function is shown in person's ability to assume what a person is experiencing now, what emotions he is overwhelmed, what feelings he is experiencing. Similar to this function is the state of empathy, when a person is able to penetrate the world of others and understand what worries him.

The protection function assumes that by predicting future events, thinking about the course of actions and the consequences of these actions, a person can avoid troubles, protect himself from possible problems.

Self-development function is shown in a person's ability to fantasize, invent and create.

Memory function It is expressed in a person's ability to remember past events, to recreate the frames of the past in his head. 

Each personality is dominated by a specific function, which often defines a person's character and behavior. To understand how images and representations are created, it is necessary to follow the basic methods of their creation. Each path is a complex multi-level thought process.

Agglutination is the creation of unreal, completely new, amazing objects or phenomena that appear under the influence of the properties and appearance of some existing objects, analyzing and evaluating the properties of which a person creates something like him. Emphasis is often used in their work by artists creating cartoons and caricatures.

Typification is the process of highlighting the main characteristics in several things, and creating an image from them, completely new, but containing a piece of each of them. With the help of this method, literary heroes and characters were created.This process reflects the surrounding world of a person at the highest mental level. The most popular definition of imagination is a process of thinking, the essence of which is the creation of new unique imges, by processing the perceived material of representations that came from previous experienc

All the above methods of imagination are actively used in psychology, creativity, and even scientific activity. gadgets, inventions are developed based on previously existing knowledge, schemes, theories and practices. Having collected from them the most important information, having processed it, scientists received a completely new product. If people do not have imagination, humanity cannot develop in all fields and activities.

This process is of great importance in a person's professional activity. It also greatly influences feelings and emotions, and plays a major role in character development. 

In the process of being creative and doing, imagination enables the individual to care for and manage his activities, as well as to control his speech, emotions, attention and memory. Assists in the creation and use of images of reality. It improves a person's psychological state, prevents stress and depression. . Imagination and individuality are the criteria for assessing a person's talent and ability, which is important in labor activity.

Imagination is a process of self-awareness of a person, revealing his abilities, other people and the world around him, the events taking place. It is a special form of human thinking, occupying a place between perception, memory and mental processes. , 

Types of imagination

Regarding the features of the process, they distinguish: accidental, arbitrary, re-creation, creative, and dreams.

Involuntary imagination is also called passive. This is the simplest type and it consists in creating and combining representations, their parts into a new image, when a person has no direct intention to do it, when consciousness is weak, and has little control in the flow representations.

passive imagination occurs in young children. It often manifests itself when a person is in a drowsy, half-asleep state, then images arise on their own (therefore arbitrary), one changes into another, they merge , take the most unrealistic forms and types.

Not only in the sleepy state does such imagination work, it also manifests itself in the waking state. New ideas do not always appear when a person has the intention to direct his consciousness to creation. A feature of the created images is their variability as a result of the instability of the brain excitation traces and the ease of their relation to the excitation processes in adjacent brain centers. Because the trajectory of arousal is not fixed, it makes imagination very easy. It is especially easy in children, where, moreover, there is no critical thinking, which acts as a filtering mechanism in adults, so the child sometimes gives the most unrealistic fantasy images.

Arbitrary imagination, also called active, is the intentional formation of representations of the corresponding task in a particular activity. , thus using their imagination. The further development of this process takes place when a person begins to act independently, showing initiative and creative effort in the labor process, which requires clear and accurate representations of the subject, to be created from the operation and where it should be performed