You take the information your senses deliver and interpret it, often in terms of your own experience, until it becomes vivid to you.
Most of us, for instance, knew that there was a refugee crisis in Europe but it didn't become vivid to most people until we saw that photo that everyone in the world saw of that toddler with his face in the water.
It appears, however, that there could be a threshold effect with psychedelics, above which pseudohallucinations become vivid hallucinations, with loss of insight and increased anxiety [ 64].
Véronique's identity, her very existence, become vivid and deeply felt because the fable or mirage of its duality has allowed it to be questioned and examined.
Distant, genteel sonorities become vivid, even violent.
The difference has become vivid in the days before and after Tuesday's presidential election.
Strands of the women's hair, formerly grey, become vivid red tendrils, while their bodies are made radiant by streaks and patches of color, variously soft and diaphanous, deep and opaque.
In the midst of all this, some aspects of historical experience begin to become vivid: we can imagine the fear the raids must have inspired, as well as the determination to defend the town.
One arrangement that stands out, he said, is the cellist Richard Henrickson's version of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze," a textural romp in which unison glissandi, col legno — striking the string with the bow's wood — and other techniques become vivid acoustic analogs for Hendrix's electric explorations.
