Instructions: Answer the following questions and then calculate your score with information provided below. If you get stuck on a question, you can skip it and come back to it when you have completed the other questions. If a question simply does not apply, leave it out completely and continue with the next. Each question can have one of 2 possible answers.
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| 1. My imagination persistently generates daydreams and fantasies without any conscious effort on my part. |
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| 2. My daydreams and fantasies frequently produce unexpected themes. |
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| 3. Elaborate imaginary themes often come to me instantaneously, seemingly out of nowhere. |
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| 4. The products of my imagination are usually ones that I initiate; i.e. they generally don’t come on their own. |
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| 5. My imagination is usually not spontaneous and surprising, but rather is used/employed in a more controlled fashion. |
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| 6. I tend to terminate imaginal exercises once I have reached a pre-determined or desired goal of the activity |
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| 7. When designing or inventing something, or when participating in artistic activities, my imagination often directs the process with little mental deliberation. |
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| 8. I am frequently astonished at the scenarios my imagination generates. |
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| 9. My imagination produces elaborate scenarios in an instant without prior deliberation on the theme. |
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| 10. Imagining is an act I choose to commence; it is rarely something that just “happens to me”. |
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| 11. I tend to guide the direction of my imaginative processes, rather than relying on the possibility that imagination will autonomously guide the process. |
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| 12. I usually terminate impractical or unwanted imaginal exercises by distracting myself, emptying my mind, or by initiating a brand new exercise in imagination. |
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| 13. When a friend feels upset my imagination automatically generates an internal image of their predicament, helping me to understand what they are feeling. |
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| 14. My imagination tends to conjure/suggest realities contrary to those I would habitually expect. |
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| 15. The images and scenarios of my imagination usually take time and persistence to construct. |
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| 16. I use my imagination mainly for practical means, eg., like how to work out a problem or construct a useful idea or object. |
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| 17. When I imagine something I prefer to control the contents, direction, spatial character, and duration of the imagined scenario. |
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| 18. I tend to allow imaginative experiences to reach their own natural conclusion, rather than me calling a halt to the activity. |
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| 19. The products of my imagination take considerable effort to construct. |
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| 20. The products of my imagination are generally predictable. |
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| 21. I frequently find myself imagining something, even when I have not chosen to do so! |
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| 22. I often do not have control, nor take control of an imaginative experience, but allow the contents, direction and spatial characteristics of the imaginal presentation to direct themselves. |
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