Imaginative pleasure through daydreaming has been theorized to be important in understanding the experience of desire and as a factor escalating consumption. However, there is risk this underplays range potentially immersive intense experiences daydreaming, prior independent purchase or use marketplace commodities. Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant diaries projective techniques, study...

There are three English authors of the fourteenth century we may call “imaginative mystics” because their use imagination in spiritual praxis, i.e., Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, and unknown author Cloud Unknowing. However, recently, there has been some criticism expressed regarding these doctrines; particular, is a question whether which includes imaginative images, can keep principle unknowab...

Metonymy, as often treated as a subtype of metaphor by cognitive linguistics, has a different working mechanism; metaphor is based on perceived similarity between things while metonymy on the relationship within things themselves. Cognition and the use of language involve the access and manipulation of mental spaces, which are constructed from human perceptual experience and are extended throug...

We make an imaginative comparison between the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model and the 24-cell polytope in four dimensions, the Octacube.