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==The mind's eye==
The idea of a "mind's eye" goes back at least to [[Cicero]]'s reference to '''''mentis oculi''''' during his discussion of the orator's appropriate use of [[simile]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCU9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA535 |title=Cicero, ''De Oratore'', Liber III: XLI: 163. |access-date=2023-03-13 |archive-date=2022-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206153025/https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XCU9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA535 |url-status=live |last1=Cicero |first1=Marcus Tullius |date=1840 }}</ref>
In this discussion, Cicero said that [[allusion]]s to "the [[Gulf of Gabès|Syrtis]] of his patrimony" and "the [[Charybdis]] of his possessions" involved similes that were "too far-fetched"; and he advised the orator to, instead, just speak of "the rock" and "the gulf" (respectively) — on the grounds that, "The eyes of the mind are more easily directed to those objects which we have seen, than to those which we have only heard."<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/ciceroonoratorya00ciceuoft#page/239/mode/1upWatson, J.S. (trans. and ed.), ''Cicero on Oratory and Orators'', Harper & Brothers, (New York), 1875: Book III, C.XLI, p.239.]</ref>
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