Our imagination helps us to process the events of everyday life and it actively reduces stress. Imagination also promotes higher levels of empathy, as it gives an individual the ability to figuratively put themselves in another’s position and see the world through their eyes.

J.K. Rowling has famously battled with depression and the Dementors—the deadly phantoms that guard Azkaban Prison—are based on her experiences with the disease. As a slight aside: J.K. Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire, in U.S. dollars, by writing books.

Want to know a famous cat person? Abraham Lincoln! He kept four cats in the White House and commented that they were smarter than his cabinet. His wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was once asked if her husband had any hobbies – her reply was simply, ‘cats’.