imagine to increase understanding

some things you can't study, train, see in a movie or play in a video game, 

instead you need to imagine: 

visualise in your mind how you will walk to the shop, 

visualise in your mind how you walk somewhere else 

imagine how you would design a realistic tactical shooter game with an area similar to where you live, 

how would you play that game with a weapon, 

how would you play that game without a weapon, 

where would you make traps, 

where and how would you make ambushes, 

how would you improvise,

what would you change in that game 

tell a story in your mind about characters that are farm animals and wild animals, 

tell a story in your mind about characters that are fantasy creature and fantasy figures, 

tell a story in your mind about characters that are science fiction monsters and science fiction figures, 

tell a story in your mind about ordinary everyday characters 

those scenarios above could be written down, 

made into movies, 

made into video games, 

but they would probably be different from what you imagined in your mind