Just as you should try to clarify your dreams and visualizations, making them vivid and detailed, so should you sharpen-up your waking life. All of life is an image-in-ing, and for as long as the mind continues to create images you will not be able to escape the imagination. I ask you, what isn't an image in our minds? We are indeed creatures of the imagination, for it is all we have got, and is the only reality.
When we relate to objects we are actually relating to images in our minds. When a man loves a woman, he is not in love with the woman herself, but with his picture of her. So, never think your lover has given themselves to you, for they have instead given themselves to desire, pleasure, and illusion.
The enlightened man is different because he is in control of his imagination, so his imaginings are pure, and he is unattached to these imaginings.