The Painting in Your Mind

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

― Vincent van Gogh – Dutch Impressionist Painter

What we create or build as humans is based upon deductive reasoning and our imaginations integrated with the gifts of this Universe and Earth.    Philosophers often pose the following question to their students “if the painting exists in your mind, does it exist in reality?”  Although we can argue that we can paint a picture of many things and the painting exists in reality, but what it portrays does not necessarily exist separate from the painting.  Or does it?   Do concepts exist in reality if our imaginations exist in reality? 

We know we can imagine, therefore we know imagination is a reality.  However is imagination in a different dimension?  Science has not yet been able to explain how consciousness or imagination works.  Scientists can only postulate that consciousness ceases to exist with the end of brain activity.  But do they cease to exist if imagination exists in another dimension of reality?  This reasoning has many implications including the existence of the soul.    Therefore, I would argue that what we believe or imagine has powerful implications affecting actions.  So what creates the greatest possibilities?  What should we choose to imagine or believe?  With God all things are possible.