Active Imagination

How to access your imagination? I’m asking, not telling. Is it as simple as inviting the creatures of the unconscious to come interact with us in our conscious life? What if they won’t listen and you have ADHD along with a constant stream of distraction pouring into your hand picked distraction feeds at any given moment?

Can we bypass the effort? It’s hard to try to do anything, we either do it or do not. Trying is doing nothing actively, in order to come into contact with the sub-conscious we need to let go. So if you are like me, and want to do great things, but hamper yourself with all the other things you want to do, and you end up doing nothing, there must be a way to trick yourself into tapping into your sub-conscious mind if you want its help.

Perhaps realizing that there is more to life than surface appearances, that there is more to great imagination than merely thinking or day dreaming. Perhaps there is more lurking underneath in the sub-conscious mind, the real good stuff that we are trying to get down to as writers, that for many of us seem to be out of reach.

I’ve been noticing that alot lately, since I’ve been writing more. I’ll have what seems like a great idea, and play with it in my mind a bit and it seems to be a mind bending twist, but when I go to write it, somehow it turns into a mundane event, a cliché, a trope, something that reveals my…