(NEXSTAR) – How vivid is your mind’s eye? If you were to try to picture an apple right now, can you see it? The shape ...

Now see if you can rotate it around in your mind. Look at it from the ... are not speaking in metaphors when they say, “I picture it in my mind’s eye.” This phenomenon of mind blindness ...

Form a mental picture of its size, texture, and color. Easy, right? But when you summoned the table in your mind's eye, did you really see it? Or did you assume we've been speaking metaphorically?

Even the same person can be better or worse at picturing things in their mind ... your best friends, you may automatically picture their faces in your head without actually seeing them in front of you ...

Eventually, that research might even make it possible to strengthen the mind’s eye — or ear — with magnetic pulses. “This is not a disorder as far as I can see,” said Dr. Zeman ...

Mental imagery is the ability to visualize things and scenarios in your mind, without actual physical input. For example, when you think about your best friends, you may automatically picture ...

If I asked you to visualize, say, Harry Potter, you’d probably have no problem picturing him in your mind: a teenage wizard ... experience of an apple. I can see a stem. I can see a leaf.