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#31 How Imagination Can Make You Happy or Miserable

Minding the Brain

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Are You Using Your Imagination to Make You Happier?

Fantasizing is one way that everybody's probably familiar with. Some theories of imagination hold that you're actually recruiting those sensory areas to be able to do it at all. I'm wondering more about like the reward circuits. Same as well, same like if you get rewarded by imagining something great happening to you versus it actually happening to you.

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