My mental images of the notes as they came from the piano are faint and uncertain and not nearly so distinct and clear as my recollection of the scene.
I can also faintly imagine the odor and taste of the coffee and toast, but I find that these images of taste and smell are not nearly so realistic as my mental images of what I saw and heard during the course of the meal.
He admits that animals have "mental images of sensible objects, combined in all degrees of complexity, as governed by the laws of association.
But judgments, emotions, and volitions cannot by any possibility be included under the head of "mental images of sensible objects.
You know that the part of You which you call "I," in a sense, stands apart and witnesses the creation of mental Images in your own mind.
Instead of living upon the impressions made upon their minds by others, they dominate their own minds by their Will, obtaining the kind of mental images desired, and moreover dominate the minds of others likewise, in the same manner.
The illusions dependent on vivid, expectation thus answer much less to an objective conjunction of past experiences than to a capricious subjective conjunction of mental images.
The liability to error resulting from mere oblivescence and the arbitrary selection of mental images is seen most plainly, perhaps, in our subsequent representation and estimate of whole periods of early life.
Such verbal suggestion, moreover, acting through a sense-impression, has something of that vividness of effect which belongs to all excitation of mental images by external stimuli.
However irresistible our sense-illusions may be, so long as we are under the sway of particular impressions or mental images, we can, when resolved to do so, undeceive ourselves by carefully attending to the actual state of things about us.
We may conclude, then, that three of the desirable attributes of great works of the imagination are number, variety and vividness of mental images.
The word image is somewhat ill-chosen; for it usually signifies something connected with the eye, and implies that the stuff of mental images is entirely visual.
Its products are thoughts, mental imagesand ideas.
By Presentation is meant the direct offering to the consciousness of mental images or objects of thought.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mental images" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
