Could You Still Believe a Bubble Gum Bubble Could Take You Into Space?

This is going to be one of those articles. So I ask that you bear with me. Could you, personally, believe, a bubblegum bubble, if big enough, could take you into space? Imagine a young boy watches a space shuttle take off on television and understands it sends people into space. He finds out they get to explore space, they get to see Earth from a different point of view, and might even see things in space no one on Earth has ever seen.

Now, the boy walks outside one day and finds a package of gum on the ground. The gum advertises, "Warning: If you chew this whole pack of gum you will go into space!" The boy, who loves the idea of space, immediately eats all of the gum.

He blows a huge bubble with the game and finds himself in space. He is now able to explore space, gets to see Earth from a different view, and gets to see things in space no one gets to see on Earth.

In reality, the gum doesn't do what it says. It instead turns your mouth black.

But first:

1) When did you first have your imagination tested by reality?

2) What do you do to maintain your imagination?

Please comment below.

I wrote the story above, I wrote this article because I had serious concerns about my imagination. I felt it was going and, in some sense, it is gone. It will never be the same innocent, naïve, and simple imagination.

Sometimes, there is that glimmer of imagination that allows you to consider things that are just so obtuse and absurd. Is there a man inside the moon? Is the moon made of cheese? Do creatures live in the center of the Earth? Can big bubble gum bubbles take you into space? These are not things everyone thinks about but I do at times.

I consider it as an exercise. I like to visualize a tale from start to finish that entertains me, personally. Only recently, I found myself distancing myself from my imagination. It should go without saying if you can imagine certain things, for yourself, you should also be able to accept others' imaginary ideas.

I knew it was just a children's film. It bothers me though that your imagination from your past does not accompany you, as a whole, into the future. The past imagination allows you to dream. The past imagination allows you to prosper. The past imagination can give you nostalgic moments.

As you get older, the past imagination diminishes, at least in my opinion, and you take on new ideas and thoughts that influence different ways of thinking. Every so often, you can get a glimmer of your past thinking by taking in something you read, see or hear.

There is a book, and a movie, The Red Balloon, by Albert Lamorisse. I believe it was about this young boy who would befriend a lively red balloon. They would have great adventures, together, in Paris, France.

I find when I do see this movie, or read this book, I can recover a small portion of my past imagination. The idea that a red balloon is alive and reacts to life was interesting and remains so.

M. Night Shyamalan would create a movie, Lady in the Water. I believe the movie is about a skeptical person that has to come to accept a mermaid.

The interaction presents him with a quest, in the modern world, and he has to accept the quest to get the mermaid back to her home. This movie gave me hope and got my imagination going.

It was imaginative because it has a mermaid in it. This was imaginative because it deals with a modern-day quest. Somehow, I would see this movie and feel my past imagination come forward a little bit more.

My past imagination may not in fact be gone. It may just need coaxing. It saddens me that sometimes I look back at books like In The Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak, or Where the Wild Things Are, also by Maurice Sendak but find their nostalgic influence does not come to me. I just find I must get the influence from somewhere else.

I hope you can reflect on your past imagination, clearly. Go see Turbo or a movie, book, or recording like it, and see if it moves you and gets your imagination going. I will tell you Turbo does actually remind me of this Hot Wheels toy car I once had. The car's wheels would turn bright green in a dark room.

I would imagine the Hot Wheels car was this ghost car. It could take on any other Hot Wheels vehicle, at night, speeding past them and leaving them in the dust because it flies over any chasm or gap in the road. Past imagination.

It was a Sunday. I went to look at the television before I did my morning exercises. I had seen a commercial. The movie trailer was about a snail that drifts into a car and falls into nitrous oxide in the car. The nitrous oxide makes the sluggish snail speedy.

In the snail's imagination, he would like to become the greatest racer in the world. Now, with his new ability, and the approach to the race, the Indianapolis 500, he could see it come to fruition. I would laugh at this commercial.

I would say this could not really happen. I went to do my exercises.

But, I knew at that very moment my imagination was leaving. Yes, Turbo is a kid's film. It cannot happen in reality. That is not what was bothering me.

I found I could not expand my imagination, not like before. There was a time when it was possible that I could find something on the ground, hear a story, read a story, or even imagine a situation and could make it into another story or a story extension if it did interest me.

Turbo seems like an interesting movie. At one point, I might have been able to see the movie's main character and imagine the places he would go or the situations he would get into. Now, I believe that ability to expand my imagination is gone.