lection of
music played on the piano?

[Sidenote: _Tests for Imagery of Taste and Touch_]

SMELL.--Can you distinctly recall the odor of strong
cheese? of violets? of roses? of coffee? of your
favorite cigar? Is it clear to your mind that it is the
odor you are recalling and not the taste?

TASTE.--1. Can you remember just how butter tastes? an
apple?

2. Try to imagine that you are sucking a lemon. Does it
pucker your mouth? Does it seem like a real lemon?

3. Can you imagine the taste of sugar? of salt? of
pepper?

PAIN AND TOUCH.--1. Can you in imagination live over
again any past physical suffering?

2. Can you recall the feeling of woolen underwear? of
bedclothes resting upon you?

3. Can you re-experience a feeling of exhaustion? of
exhilaration?

[Sidenote: _Tests for Imagery of Heat and Cold_]

HEAT AND COLD.--Can you imagine a feeling of warmth? of
cold? Does your recollection of the feeling of ice
differ from your memory of a burn?

Go through the above list of questions, carefully noting down
your answers. You will discover some personal peculiarities in
yourself you never dreamed existed.

Try these questions on other members of your own family. You will
be surprised at the varying results. You will perceive the reason
for many innate differences of ability to do and to enjoy.

[Sidenote: _How to Cultivate Mental Imagery_]

Think what an immense part imagination plays in the world of
business, and you will see how important it is to know your own
type of sense-imagery.

To some extent the power of forming mental images can be
cultivated so as to improve one's fitness for different kinds of
employment. Such self-culture rests upon improvement in the
vividness of your sense-perceptions. It suffices for your present
purpose to know that to cultivate your power of sense-imagery in
any respect you must (1) _Keep the appropriate sense-organs in
good condition, and_ (2) _When sense-perceptions of the kind in
question come to you, give your undivided attention to your
consciousness of them._

THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION

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CHAPTER V

THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION

[Sidenote: _The Process of Creative Imagination_]

There is another type of imagination from the purely reproductive
memory imagination of which we have been speaking in this book.

There is also Creative