mental imagery

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mental imagery - the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"imagery, imaging, imaginationrepresentational process - any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something elsemind's eye - the imaging of remembered or invented scenes; "I could see her clearly in my mind's eye"vision - a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death"envisioning, picturing - visual imagerydream, dreaming - a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night"chimaera, chimera - a grotesque product of the imaginationevocation - imaginative re-creationmake-believe, pretense, pretence - imaginative intellectual play