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mind's eye
/mˈaɪndz ˈaɪ/
/mˈaɪndz ˈaɪ/
mind's eye
[PHRASE]1
a person's ability to visualize things that could happen
Examples
1. While it's too easy to say Van Gogh's turbulent genius enabled him to depict turbulence, it's also far too difficult to accurately express the rousing beauty of the fact that in a period of intense suffering, Van Gogh was somehow able to perceive and represent one of the most supremely difficult concepts nature has ever brought before mankind, and to unite his unique mind's eye with the deepest mysteries of movement, fluid and light.
2. And in my mind's eye, as we're standing in front of this man's house, what I saw was a little baby 3 days old in cold weather on a winter's day sitting on that doorstep by herself.
3. But Aphantasia is, like, the reverse, where a patient lacks the so-called "mind's eye."
4. It also suggests that the mind's eye can take you far away.
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