mind's eye

noun

the hypothetical site of visual recollection or imagination: In her mind's eye she saw the city as it had been in Caesar's time.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English

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mind's eye

—n
	the visual memory or the imagination

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Use your mind's eye to see it as it once was, thick with pomegranates and roses.

Make the mental image crystal clear, and vivid in your mind's eye.

Imagine objects and manipulate them in your mind's eye to see new patterns and

similarities between disparate concepts.

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"Human visual perception is a far more complex and selective process than that by which a film records. Nevertheless the camera lens and the eye both register images—because of their sensitivity to light—at great speed and in the face of an immediate event. What the camera does, however, and what the eye in itself can never do is to fix the appearance of that event. It removes its appearance from the flow of appearances and it preserves it, not perhaps forever but for as long as the film exists. The essential character of this preservation is not dependent upon the image being static; unedited film rushes preserve in essentially the same way. The camera saves a set of appearances from the otherwise inevitable supercession of further appearances. It holds them unchanging. And before the invention of the camera nothing could do this, except, in the mind's eye, the faculty of memory."

-John Berger