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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mind's eye¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425

Example Sentences

Scotland fans with even average memories take nothing for granted on the road, their mind's eye still capable of conjuring up disturbing images of losing qualifying matches to Georgia in Tbilisi in 2007 and Kazakhstan in Astana a dozen years later.

From BBC

One mystery, which the film never addresses — it’s less of one on the page, where the mind’s eye adjusts the setting to a believable degree of plushness — is how some of them can afford to live there at all.

From Los Angeles Times

I’d always seen it in my mind’s eye, and now here it was beneath my feet.

From Salon

That’s what we think in our mind’s eye Sinatra had the research to see and say, “I’m going to try and do the right thing for all these people down below as best I can and try and keep the people at bay.”

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Slate