I analogize.
   I do it a lot.
   Helps me comprehend.
   Helps me explain.

   I see things regarding ideas, imagination, mind, perfection,
   ideals, etc as this:

   Lines on paper.

   But they are lines on paper in an optical illusion way:

   We see a line as straight that is drawn. Our mind may record
   lines as straight and perfect.

   But zoom in? Not perfect. Not 2D. Not even close.

   Yet, we manipulate the optical illusion lines very well in our
   minds; we have visual systems attuned to outlining. Helps us
   with viewing perspective and such.

   The "realness" or "realer than real" qualities that we tend to
   give this thing called "imagination" I think, is ultimately due
   to how we incorrectly process lines in our visual system.

   I believe the machinery is in there and it is used for ideas.
   Things move faster in the imagination because there's less bulky
   stuff holding it back. Even Time flows more freely in
   imagination, allowing us to travel freely back and forth through
   time linguistically without any issue at all, while our bodies
   lumber along as they do.

   I believe ideas are physically real but some of the machines
   they produce - like systems of ideas and such, always suffer
   from a major flaw: they're illusionary. Physically real in the
   way that our brains process lines and consider them 1D or 2D
   things... but not real in the slower world out 'here'.'