How Imagination Creates Reality (And How to Use It)
How could imagination create reality? Did you ever hear such a thing before? Usually imagination is described as something unreal, something that has no connection to the physical world. What if I told you there’s more to it?
In this article, I’ll show you exactly how imagination creates everything around you — from the objects you see to the life you live — and how you can use it consciously to manifest what you want.
How Imagination Creates Reality
Most people think imagination is something unreal — just daydreams, pictures in your head. Nothing “physical,” nothing “real”. There’s the “physical world,” and then there’s the “world of imagination.”
So how does imagination create reality then?
Let’s start simple.
Look around you.
Everything you see right now — your clothes, your phone, the screen you’re reading this on — all of it existed in someone’s imagination first.
Every single thing.
Take buildings for example. An architect imagines the building first.
He sees it in his mind → then he draws it → then someone builds it.
So who created the building? Imagination did.
Many years ago, someone was tired of moving heavy objects with their body. They imagined something that could roll, something that could help them. Once the idea was clear, the wheel was born, and today the wheel is everywhere.
Where did it come from?
Imagination.
A simple imaginal act changed our world forever.
Even the words you’re reading right now came from imagination. Letters are symbols — somebody had to imagine them first.
The truth is simple: everything starts in the mind before it appears in the physical world. Even the actions you take every day.
If you’re in one room and want to go to another, an image of that room pops into your mind first. You see it in your imagination before you walk there. Without that mental picture, you wouldn’t get there so easily.
Imagination is behind everything.
Using Imagination to Create YOUR Reality
So by now you can see that imagination really does create reality. But here’s the part most people never realize:
It doesn’t only create the things you touch or see. It creates your whole life.
Your decisions.
Your habits.
Your personality.
Your future.
All of it starts as a picture in your mind.
What if you used that power consciously?
What if you imagined your life so clearly, so consistently, that it had no choice but to manifest?
This is where imagination stops being “fantasy” and becomes very real. So real it shapes your entire reality.
How to Use Imagination Intentionally
You can use imagination the same way you use a blueprint.
Just like an architect imagines a building before drawing it, you can imagine the life you want before living it in the physical world.
If you, instead of accepting limitations, use your imagination to feel the feeling of the wish fulfilled it will manifest in your world.
It’s just like this true master of the imagination said:
Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. – Neville Goddard
I’m going to show you how you can do it now.
1. Set your Goal
The first thing you have to think about is, what do you really want?
You can manifest anything using your imagination, but you must know what you want, or you won’t get anything. Maybe it’s money you want, maybe the love of your life… anything, just make sure it’s what you really want.
2. Create a Clear Scene
Imagine exactly what you want as if you already have it. Remember to focus on the end— not the whole process.
For example: Instead of imagining the entire journey to a new house imagine the moment someone congratulates you and says, “Wow, you have such a beautiful home! Congratulations!!”
Your scene can be anything, as long as it makes you have the feeling of now having what you wanted to have. You don’t have to limit yourself to only one scene, you can also imagine many different scenes freely. Do what feels best for you, what matters is if your imaginal acts make you feel the feeling of your wish fulfilled in the now.
Keep it simple!
3. Have Fun
This is very important, and many struggle to understand this.
This whole manifestation thing is not about concentration, it’s not about struggling or trying to make things happen.
It’s about enjoying the most you can the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
You are not trying to make anything happen, you are enjoying in the NOW the feeling of the wish fulfilled. It’s supposed to feel amazing, lose yourself in it, have fun!
You have to feel it NOW
This is very important, don’t imagine it as “in the future.”
Feel it NOW.
It’s happening to you NOW, not tomorrow, not in a week, RIGHT NOW.
Your goal is to have fun, get absolutely lost in it.
4. Repeat It
Not forced. Repeat it everyday or until you feel you are satisfied.
Remember, once you use your imagination to impress the subconscious mind with the feeling of the wish fulfilled it’s done, it’s going to come.
5. Don’t think much about it
After you imagined, don’t think much about it, or maybe you will start thinking about things like “when is it going to come?” “did I do it right?” none of this is going to help you, quite the contrary actually.
If you do think about it, just be grateful for it, you did your part and know it’s yours and it’s going to come soon.
Trust me, if you feel the feeling of the wish fulfilled and you don’t waiver it’s going to come, there’s nothing to stress about.
Final Thoughts
Everything you see in the world started in someone’s mind. That same power is inside you.
When you use your imagination deliberately — with clarity, feeling, and repetition — “reality” has no choice but to follow.
This is what it really means when people say:
Imagination creates reality.
