The phrase "act of imagining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process or action of forming mental images or concepts that are not present to the senses.
Example: "The act of imagining new possibilities can lead to innovative solutions in problem-solving."
Alternatives: "process of envisioning" or "exercise of creativity".
More than in any other Shakespeare play, the audience is here asked to catch themselves in the act of imagining.
He also developed the theory that universes are created through the act of imagining them and that fictional realities exist as parallel dimensions.
For it is in the act of imagining what he cannot know that John drags the stories of Mary (his mother) and Grace (his grandmother) out of the commonplace.
Compare, for example, the act of imagining Napoleon defeated at Waterloo "from above" with the act of imagining being Napoleon defeated at Waterloo from the perspective of Napoleon.
Images of human bodies and chairs were used as the stimuli for the first experiment, simple hand movements carried out by the subject were used for the second and the act of imagining hand movements for the third.
They had to raise it by imagining themselves executing some kind of motion, and lower it by "resting" from that act of imagining.
He describes abstraction as ignoring detail, whereas idealisation involves an act of imagination; scientists imagine a phenomenon to be different to how we know it to be in reality, which is a clear parallel of Jones' proposal.
Another song, "Imagine Me," a willowy ballad held together by a soft, vaguely martial snare, a bright acoustic guitar, and a sweetly repetitive piano riff, pulls a neat psychological trick: instead of telling the customary gospel story of absolute, transformational change, the narrator presents the act of even imagining an uninhibited relationship with God as a kind of breakthrough.
While the presence of such ambiguity is assumed to be important to achieve change in selective interpretation, it is also possible that the act of repeatedly imagining positive or negative events could produce such change in the absence of ambiguity.
The absence of group differences in selective interpretation for those exposed to scenarios where emotional ambiguity is absent suggests that the act of merely imagining various positive (or negative) events is unlikely to alter interpretive bias and underscores the importance of preserving such ambiguity in tasks seeking to modify interpretive bias.
Mr. Smith's "Huey P. Newton Story" (1997), which he also created and performed, was an exhilarating, focused act of historical imagining.
