# Observation, Overflow, and Attention **Opening (not a real abstract):**  : it is not possible to observe the intentional object of imagining.   : every aspect of what is imagined is imagined consciously. I noted that these claims are related. Observation is the active extension of receptive awareness. If we are aware of every aspect of what we imagine simply in imagining it, there is no realm into which awareness can be extended.    entails  . I argued in Chapter 2 that the contrasts to which these claims belong are wellframed. But I have yet to argue that those contrasts hold, and in particular to offer any defence of the two claims. In this chapter I begin those tasks. Its main purpose is to make the positive case for  . Observation in perception takes two forms [2.2]. Sometimes we observe by **Authors:** [[Robet Hopkins]]