The ability to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel through the mind’s eye.
Visual sensations clearly produced in the mind.
In psychiatry, formation of images, concepts, and ideas.
The production of vivid mental representations by the normal processes of thought. Hypnagogic imagery occurs just before falling asleep, and the images are often very distinct. Hypnopompic imagery occurs in the state between sleep and full wakefulness. Like hypnagogic imagery, the experiences may be very vivid. Eidetic imagery, commoner in children than adults, is the production of images of exceptional clarity, which may be recalled long after being first experienced.
Imagination; the calling up of events or mental pictures. Mental imagery may be of various types.
Cognitive stress management technique involving the use of visualization to imagine yourself in, and successfully handling, stressful situations. Also used for relaxation.