Protecting the imagery is very important. If we're not careful, there might not be enough imagery to go around. By the time I am 12, there may be no images left on planet Earth at all.
I found a rock that is easy to hurt and hard to teach. Emotion is the hard part. Rock is the teacher. Protecting a image is teaching illusion. Rock hit you its a fact.
I try to put this imaginary imagery down on paper in the form of drawings...It's a strange translation of mind into form, and there is no direct correlation between the image in the mind and what comes about on paper. It's a strange process.
if we didn't imagine images we wouldn't be human. but are we? is there any other such thing then just as a name for our species. what i really suspect is that this is not unique to our species at all. the compulsion to express these images in physical form to share them with others, that's the part, that's where our becoming anything any other life form isn't just as much as ourselves, may have been triggered by or came from. there is no greater authority on any one particular rock, tree, or even living creature, of any species, then that individual rock, tree, or living creature, itself. (not saying there can't be big friendly invisible things too, just that they don't have to have anything to do with it.)
only for species who reproduce in that manor. even on this earth, there are many that do not. on the billions of other planets that likely support life, even in our own galaxy, it is not unlikely that some may even have evolved sapience.