Drum roll please!
And it's... a room! The people there are taking a writing class and probably imagining things, but it's not quite the Room of Requirement, or Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, or Star Trek's holodeck like some of you folks suggested. The "Imagination Room" is in fact a room like any other... or is it?
Remember the prohibition episode of the Simpsons where Moe's Tavern turns into a speakeasy? He pushes a big lever that turns the whole thing into a pet store when the cops come. Perhaps the Imagination Room is like that. Maybe when I left the room, the big switch was flipped and it turned back into the "puppies and marshmallows" room.
We can always dream.
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Please discuss Perry's comment "there is a black cloud over Washington" .
Imagine there are no Republicans. Imagine we are a true "UNITED" States. " UNITED" in the idea that we the people can persue the real dream promised us. The right of : Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ! Without needing 2 jobs. Wait I can't even find one! I guess there are Republicans.
It's a room? Not much imagination there. That's almost anti imagination. You guys should have just left it to our imagination.
So maybe your Room of Requirement idea is proven here. After all, what better than to have a cool party room that could suddenly transform, appearing to "invaders" as a boring place where people type at tiny desks?
Never took opportunity but my guess of what was behind the door would have been two more doors:
Imagination Room 1674E-1a
and
Imagination Room 1674E-1b
there was an article in the New York times on Aug 13th about The Elusive Big Idea. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/the-elusive-big-idea.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=general
Basically, it's about how we are now a culture of information and how we are inundated with information via the internet and mobile devices and the author argues that "Bold ideas are almost passé." and that "In effect, we are living in an increasingly post-idea world — a world in which big, thought-provoking ideas that can’t instantly be monetized are of so little intrinsic value that fewer people are generating them and fewer outlets are disseminating them."
I remember a quote that said big people talk about ideas, mediocre people talk about events and small people talk about each other. What's behind your door?
Yes, the dissemination of the monetized dream idea has no intrinsic value. Hence, no imagination needed to open any door, thus we are stuck with the closed (minded) door policy of politics.