Despite having an older sister I spent the majority of my childhood playing alone and cultivating my imagination to the fullest potential. Combining this with my artistic ability & creativity, I was able to envision many things from generic objects and translate them into ideas, creatures, people, etc...

All my life I have found beauty in the discarded and decay of life.

For example, I'll be in the shower and drops of water will align in such a way that I will see a face. Instead of shampooing my hair, I begin to analyze the structure as if I had a pencil and were connecting the dots. Often I'll try to engrave the memory into my head so that I can draw it later on but usually by the time I finish my shower and get back upstairs, the concept vanishes.

I've learned to start taking photos when applicable so that I can experience this and record it.
As of right now I have 2 things that I can extract from the physical world and piece together with the mental vision I've developed from looking at it.

There's something magical about looking at cracked paint on wood or the bark of an old tree in the forest. I think the easiest explanation is to remind you of a time where you looked up at the clouds. At some point in your life you must have found clouds that resembled things familiar to you and you point them out to the person next to you and you giggle until it eventually morphs into something else or nothing at all. Take that same idea and apply it to inanimate objects around your house or neighborhood.

I doubt I'm the only person who experiences this or acts upon it but something new I want to do with my art hobby is to take a photo of before and transform it into a work of art and let the viewer decide if they can see what I saw in the original or not.

If you are a creative person or not, I strongly suggest doing this as a form of creative exercise. Use a curtain with wrinkles, a rusty fence, paint peeling off of a banister, a scene in nature, etc... Take something and extract life from it and harvest the idea that forms in your head into something that can live and thrive out here in the world. I find it to be a sort of cure for artist block (the artist's version of writers block.) If you take part in this, definitely leave a comment below. I would love to hear your experiences. I'll be uploading my adventures onto YouTube and I'm sure there will be blogs to follow for this process.
 
Check out the images and compare them. Do you see the dragon in the original?

You can check out the video of the first exercise here.