Two-Factor Imagination Scale

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I got a 44, which is somewhat disturbing because I always thought I was an 'imaginative' type of person. Maybe not.


Yeah, they should have a java table to total up the scores. It was a pain in the butt add it up myself. At the end of it, I was wondering why I had to click bubbles for the answers when I could have marked the answers on paper as I went...

go figure.

66

I live in my daydreams. I can spend hours in them for anything. They come and go as they please and I don't mind. I find my senses more acute in them at times (I have smelled things, heard them, touched them, even had the sensation of falling, flying, etc.).

There are days that if I could be placed in isolation without any interruptions, I would spend my waking moments all in daydream. I don't mind.

I consider this one of my strongest gifts and am not ashamed of it.

This was one of the few tests I don't seem to be able to take. Maybe I have no imagination.

36.

I've always thought of myself as being fairly imaginative -- I write, paint, daydream, etc. -- but I suppose I do deliberately sit down and think about these things rather than just have them flow out of me, like some people. I'll start with a writing prompt, for instance, such as a particular social theory I want to explore and go from there, or maybe an experience I want to describe and build a story around. As for my imagination ending up in surprising places, no, not very often at all. I found myself asking if anyone's really did, but if it's on the test, it must be true for someone.

52. Woohoo!

Though I'm certain I probably calculated wrong...

I honestly don't understand the meaning of the questions.

How do I distinguish between "spontaneous" and "directed" imagination?

Aspie tests has this test:

http://www.aspietests.org/index.php

I got 58.

I want to be a creative writer, and I've been told I'm very creative. I'm surprised it isn't higher - though I guess that it was lowered by the amount of conscious effort I apply to enhancing my ideas to the point of being story quality.

People can argue about imagination all they want, some of us aren't imaginative.

22. Except that feels too high. Despite it being the minimum score.

It also needs to be noted that if I try to imagine something I'll usually fail, and that I can only remember doing the not by my own initiation, more fantasizing type once in my memory.

42 (is the answer ) . And I don't see how "controlled imagination" should be a bad thing, or equate to not being imaginative. I use my imagination all the time and it's very vivid. If I didn't control it I'd be unable to function.

This is an old thread, but if I added it up right, I got 62. My score doesn't surprise me - I frequently come up with a lot of completely random stuff - which works great for writing song lyrics. I also can come up with lyrics spontaneously while jamming, although often they can be a little bizarre.

Often I'm just describing mental imagery that comes to me - so I really wouldn't call it controlled. Sometimes it's on topic, on task, etc., other times it is not.

I often will spontaneously talk at length about something, comment about it, etc. It's hard to describe - the NT's I spend time with tend to laugh at it a lot (in a good way, as far as I can tell) - although if they're angry with me it tends to make them much, much more angry - these things can vary in length from short, to very long. I get comments like "was that from a movie?" or "what was that from?" often when doing this spontaneous talking, making up stuff as I go.

The questions confuse me. I really not sure if my imagination is controlled or not.

44.

However, it was hard to answer most of the time; due to subjectiveness of questions. I can't think about non controlled imagination. From the test: ''My daydreams and fantasies frequently produce unexpected themes''. How can I give a definite answer? Can some people spontaneously imagine four legged politician licking a car tire in Antarctica? Or is it just about chatting with John Lennon? The level of ''unexpected theme'' is unknown.

I also didn't like ''most often true/less often true'' choices. Let me give an example about it:

In the question it says ''frequently'' and lets say my answer is ''more often true''. When you convert the situation to logic, you can understand it is the multiplication of two occurences. Lets say ''always'' is 1 and ''never'' is 0. Then, it can be said that both ''frequently'' and ''most often'' can approximately be represented by 0.75. Lets say my dreams are wild and I want to reflect the situation. But when I answer with ''more often true'': frequently * most often = 0.75 * 0.75 = 0.5625. It's barely ''sometimes'', and it is impossible to reflect higher levels of unexpected theme production. (I don't know if I managed to tell it properly).

Of course, any test in psychology suffers from subjectiveness. Nevertheless, this particular one has many problems IMHO.

Either there should also be ''always'' and ''never'' or my way of thinking is very rigid.