"imagining" meaning in English

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          "text": "1977, Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard in Izitso, Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens,\nRemember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love […]"
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          "text": "Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings.",
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          "text": "Despite my imaginings, disaster was denied over the deep waters of the Hawkesbury.",
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