Types / Personality facets / Vivid imagination
A facet inside Openness
How vividly you imagine, daydream and become absorbed in thoughts or fantasy.
Your readiness to daydream, imagine, and become absorbed in thoughts beyond what is immediately present. The lower end keeps attention more readily with what is real and at hand.
This is one scale with two ends, not two camps. Most people land somewhere between them, and neither end is better. The labels describe different ways of answering the statements.
Someone toward this end tends to focus on the task, room, or conversation directly in front of them. That focus can make practical decisions feel clear and keep attention from drifting when details matter. The cost is that possibilities may go unexplored, especially when a useful answer requires time away from the immediate problem.
Someone toward this end often turns a walk, a quiet room, or a half-formed thought into a private story or possibility. That inner range can bring fresh connections to writing, planning, and ordinary problems. The cost is that attention may leave the practical moment, and a workable plan can become less satisfying than a more interesting one.
Openness is the average of six facets, and Vivid imagination is one part of it. Someone can land differently on each of the six scales, so the broad result doesn’t tell the whole story.
How vividly you imagine, daydream and become absorbed in thoughts or fantasy.
How strongly art, poetry and beauty catch your attention and matter to you.
How closely you notice your own feelings and sense what others feel.
How readily you choose variety, welcome change and move beyond familiar routines.
How much you enjoy abstract, theoretical or philosophical questions and discussion.
How readily you question authority, convention and established ways of seeing things.
Answer 120 short statements for a reading across all 30 facets, with each scale explained in plain English.
No. Each end comes with something that helps and something that gets in the way. Some scale names sound like faults in everyday English, but an end label describes what the statements asked about, not a grade.
It happens often, and it’s the reason these 30 facets exist. A broad score is an average of six parts, so one part can point the other way. Nothing is wrong when a facet and its broad trait don’t match perfectly.
A score is compared with 320,128 U.S. adults who answered the original statements online during the roughly 12 years before 2014. Their published average and spread provide a typical range for the facet, showing how the score compares with that group.
