When we remember something and when we imagine something it makes exactly the same patterns in the brain.
It actually communicates with the body too – when we imagine something, we fire up the same neurons in our brain as when we are actually experiencing it.
(We imagine something along the lines of, "Remember! There are no limits!") But the actor playing Berlino the Bear ,official man-in-costume of the World Athletics Championships this summer, roamed freer in Berlin's Olympic Stadium than any mascot in memory.
This happens when we simply see or hear something, or when we imagine something in our phantasy.
We imagine something, then make it happen.
So when we imagine something, be it a dream or a nightmare and believe it is real, we become dominated by it as if the monsters are real.
Having it understand natural queries is also very cool, and for the first time, you get a sense that this is what we all imagined something like AskJeeves was meant to be, but good and effective.
"When we sat down and we did the business plan for the company, this was never factored in, this was a bonus; We couldn't have imagined something like this could go global because of the severe locality of it," Mr. Harib said in an interview this month.
When we resist imagining something, we also tend to resist accepting it as fictional.
We can imagine something happening – or we've seen a news article about it – so we scale it up in our minds till it becomes all encompassing.
