The Imaginary Direction of Time

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{{Infobox album

| name = The Imaginary Direction of Time

| type = Album

| artist = Winds

| cover = The Imaginary Direction of Time Cover.jpg

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| released = 26 July 2004

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| genre = Progressive metal, neoclassical metal

| length = 48:10

| label = The End Records

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| prev_title = Reflections of the I

| prev_year = 2002

| next_title = Prominence and Demise

| next_year = 2007

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}MacNiel, Jason [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r686885/review|pure_url=yes}} The Imaginary Direction of Time review] allmusic.com. Retrieved on 13 December 2010.

|rev2 = Terrorizer

|rev2score = 5.5/10{{cite journal|last=Stenning|first=Paul|title=Winds - The Imaginary Direction of Time|journal=Terrorizer|date=September 2004|issue=123|page=68}}

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The Imaginary Direction of Time is the second full-length album by Norwegian progressive metal band Winds. It was released on 26 July 2004. Paul Stenning described the album in Terrorizer as lacking "any real sense of purpose. This seems like a 'concept' and 'avant garde' for the sake of it, turning the album into a mesh of clumsy comparisons and nothing of real worth...it's a none-too-daring experiment caught in the headlights of its own vision".