Imagination, Obsession, Impulse, and Inhibition

The drama within our brains

Photo by Kyle Head on Unsplash

I’m not the first person to think of the competing thoughts in our brains as characters in a drama or debate. It’s a useful metaphor. Each of the characters contributes both positively and negatively to our selves and our behavior.

Imagination, like the Roman god Janus, looks both backward, imperfectly, to our past, and forward…