Something I’ve noticed. Pro tip, maybe. Which will probably make no sense to most . There is a “shock” that happens when imagination comes into contact with … other. Almost as if imagination was just a vehicle to cross a part of the psyche to get to the other side. And while imagination is gossamer, ambiguous, unreal, and easily dismissed as nothing at all… contact with “other” can be more real than real. Nothing ambiguous about it. It provokes immediate recoil and fear, unless mental detachment and emotional equilibrium manage the default reaction. Imagination is not a destination but a bridge, and what waits on the other side is so unmistakably real that the mind’s first instinct is to flee. Children are dangerous because they haven’t yet learned that the bridge is supposed to be imaginary, so they cross it freely and return carrying proof that it’s not.