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mind's eye

noun

  1. 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.



mind's eye

noun

  1. the visual memory or the imagination

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mind's eye1

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425
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But Mitchell’s charge was ongoing: to capture the slaughter in his mind’s eye, to witness and remember and translate everything he had seen for the broader public.

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I would sit in front of the house and I would try to create in my mind’s eye and know that all of these things actually happened at this house that I’m standing in front of.

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And then I came back, and a few days later, I ran up to the springs, and the epilogue just sort of formed itself in my mind's eye… and I went home and more or less wrote it down.

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“I was in the enzyme bath and as part of that experience, like in a millisecond of this vast experience, I saw the whole creation of Osmosis unfold before my mind’s eye in an instant, crystal clear, undeniable, and I knew it was my calling to do this,” he said.

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In my mind’s eye, I envisioned a financially and emotionally secure, 60-something professional with interests in the arts, fitness and travel.

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