mental imagery

/ˌmɛntl ˌɪmɪdʒəri/

Definitions of mental imagery

1. noun

   the ability to form mental images of things or events
   synonyms: imagery, imagination, imaging

   types:

   mind's eye

   the imaging of remembered or invented scenes

   vision

   a vivid mental image

   envisioning, picturing

   visual imagery

   dream, dreaming

   a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep

   chimaera, chimera

   a grotesque product of the imagination

   evocation

   imaginative re-creation

   make-believe, pretence, pretense

   imaginative intellectual play

   nightmare

   a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream

   prevision

   a prophetic vision (as in a dream)

   retrovision

   a vision of events in the distant past

   type of:

   representational process

   any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else