When we exercise our imaginations, we’re using bits and pieces of stored memories to generate models of creative possibilities in the forebrain ‘planning’ area of our mind-brain. In essence, this is the same process and brain region that we use to solve our life’s problems, but with fewer – if any – of the negative constraints of reality entering into the mix. As a consequence, the experience of imagining is felt to be a more positive state than that of problem solving, but it’s also less ‘reality based’. Given the assertion that spiritual people are characteristically imaginative, we might expect them to be happier on average than non-spiritual people, but we might also expect them to be more likely to hold belief systems that aren’t valid.