Is enlightenment imagining (using the imagination)?

It definitely helps! I loved that story thanks for sharing it. The mind is full of things good and bad, positive and negative. How you manifest and control it is going to give more enlightenment as imagination is sort of part of the mind. The thing about imagination is it is not a thought in the past or present but one in the future. Past thoughts are experience of loss and wins. Present time is the momement of their creation and the future is a sum of the past. So it exists without time for you created it, and time could be said to be the ultimate trap.Having created it the image exists as timeless. I too love imagination, and have remembered when i was a child and I used it a lot. Today I use it more than when I was a child! More information in the link below. Hope it helped!