How can I regain my imagination?

I think if you just concentrate on making yourself happy in life and never completely “grow up”, you will feel freer to just express yourself. As we get older, we forget about how to enjoy life sometimes. Good luck with it!!

Read everything you can get your hands on.

Also, don’t sleep for three days straight and then write what you are thinking about without editing or self-censoring. but don’t really do this, it’s probably not safe. I do it alot, but I’m crazy, so don’t mind me…

Hehe =D

Spend an afternoon with a 4 year old . . .

i Dont know any.

It might help to just get out and have some fun!Stop putting pressure on yourself to be creative!t will come to you.

I think your imagination begins to fade into the background when you start to make compromises in order to fit in with friends, which is about the age you stated, around age 7 or 8. This is around the time that a girl usually arises in the class social structure, and you begin to do things in order to be “in” with the in group. The energy that was was channelled into creativity gets focused into either fitting in, or following directions on how to be creative in order to meet a standard for a grade (example: Did all the spelling words really have to have one sentence each? What if you could think of a single sentence that used 5 spelling words? Why would that be wrong?) With boys, creativity stays a little later, and starts dropping off around age 11 for the same reasons—assimilation.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard‘s suggestion is a good one. Reading lots of different sorts of material does pique your creative ability. And, oddly enough, the not sleeping, while not advisable for other reasons, is correct because being that tired lets down your guard. When tired, your control over your self-awareness drops, and you really don’t care what others think of you.

Creativity comes when you use it. Sometimes it comes when you’re really bored and the only way to break the boredom is to amuse yourself. Try going without TV or cell phone over the holidays. Find something intriguing, like a painting or a craft, or a style of writing, and see if you can replicate it. Sit in a public space and people-watch. Find a person that looks interesting, and write a description of them, and then go home and write a story about that person. Describe the secret life of your pets when you’re not home.

If your school or community has an improv program, join it. Creativity can be catching.

Thanks @PandoraBoxx! You worded it better than I could have!

Thanks All your suggestion will be defiantly be taken on board =D

Hang with me!=D

You must not be the first person to have this happen….you know, the hippies used to trip out on LSD and other psychotropics. Hmmmmnnn…okay…got it….buy yourself a really fancy kaleidoscope.

@MountainMomma Wonder what that would be like?

Never a dull moment and if the 2 of us would team up it would be even better SirGoofy!=P

Let it take flight once again. When you see something amusing and your imagination wants to take you into a world of its own do not reign it in.

The best place to start is the playground. Watch the younger kids on their flights of fantasy and hitch a ride with them.

Turn off the TV!

I went through the same thing a few years ago. Drawing and writing are really helpful (I do those too). The way I dealt with it was to try to draw something as realistically as possible, but add in a few stranger-than-life details (like a portrait of someone but with opposite colors, strange proportions, inanimate objects—you get the idea). An art or creative writing club at your school is great also.

What helps me is listening to calming music. It helps me block everything else out and be able to focus on my own thoughts. When I was in my painting classes it really helped me a lot!