mind's eye

Example Sentences

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"In their mind's eye, they traveled across the map, encountering the sacred story as they did so."

From Science Daily

Researchers who study aphantasia, or the inability to visualize something in your "mind's eye," are starting to get a sense of how to accurately measure the condition, and what it may mean for those who have it.

From Scientific American

In his mind’s eye, the city where he moved in 1983 as a graduate student is a college town where, if he had his way, the Craftsman homes would still be affordable for professors and campus life — the packed living quarters, the beer-soaked parties — would not disrupt surrounding neighborhoods.

From New York Times

But she sees it in her ecstatic mind’s eye, and hears it, too, as the charismatic actress Dina Soltan makes clear in the title role of Lauren Gunderson’s now-stodgy, now-delightful “Ada and the Engine,” staged by Avant Bard Theatre.

From Washington Post

At the time of her election, she said this month, “Nobody had in their mind’s eye that we would be shortly thereafter laboring under a massive global pandemic and all of the consequences.”

From New York Times