Imaginative Journeys are fictitious in nature, but are endless in possibilities. Many have ceased to realize the true concept of imaginative journeys, as they have merely restricted it as places where intangible desires in reality, become tangible in the mind. However, this is not entirely true. Texts discussing imaginative journeys have reshaped and transformed these parochial views into a broadened understanding of imaginative journeys; they not only encompass the fulfillment of desires, but stretch into the world of self discovery, change, experience and knowledge. Through the close study of Coleridge's, This Lime Tree Bower My Prison, Shirley Lim's, The Town Where Time Stands Still, John Lennon's, Imagine, and the film, Big Fish, by Tim Burton, responder's will come to realize that imaginative journeys hold much more than the superficiality of desires.

The Town Where Time Stands Still is a short analytical extract that deals with the idea of...