HUme- just imagine...

In talking about the vivid imagination of man, Hume says this: “We can, in our conception, join the head of a man to the body of a horse; but it is not in our power to believe, that such an animal has ever really existed (Pt. II, Pg.31).” OK, so I really like this quote because it just says so much to me. In our minds, we can pretty much picture anything we would like, whether it makes sense or not. Our imaginations are amazing; there are just endless things man can do with an imagination. Without imagination, there would be no art, no music, children wouldn’t be children, creativity would not exist, there would be no uniqueness among each individual, perhaps people wouldn’t even have life-long dream or goals because what’s a dream to work towards if you can’t imagine what it would be like after having it? On the other hand, no imagination could then end some violence maybe, such as serial killers who do strange creepy things to their victims or even the ones who kill in sequence or patterns…But anyway… our imaginations make us-us. Without them we would be boring and blahhhhh. Although sometimes what we imagine, doesn’t make all that much sense, we still thought of it, regardless. Like in a dream or nightmare, I get some crazy stuff sometimes. Sometimes I feel like my dreams (from my imagination) sometimes come true, and other times I think that was crazy, what ever made me imagine such a thing like that? Either way, we obviously don’t always go through with what our imagination tells us to, or put faith into something we know as impossible but draw it as a realistic picture in our minds. But what we do, or be, without imagination?