" and trails off, letting a mental imprint in the shape of Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" fill in the blank.
"But I once had an awful pee block at one of those exposed four-way festival urinals, and maybe that left some kind of mental imprint?" In terms of avoiding them, James says it's "a real case by case deal – if it's an empty loo, I'll use a urinal.
If the map is changed too much, it no longer corresponds with this mental imprint and may cause confusion.
As proof of the powerful mental imprints left over from puberty I was instantly assailed by images of Bond drinking Dom Perignon, not Bollinger.It is true that Bollinger has been the Bond champagne of choice ever since "Moonraker" in 1979, but most fans would agree that this was the point when 007 films began to go downhill, becoming increasingly flashy and absurd.
What you must remind yourself daily -- through simple affirmations or guided visualizations -- is that your past is your past, and whatever happened in your past, which makes you afraid today, must be dealt with and its mental imprints removed permanently.
He penciled more reminders in his score and imprinted mental notes.
In effect, he lumps mental images (including imprints in the wax of memory, and paintings on the canvas of the soul) together with other sorts of images, such as sculptures, paintings, shadows, and reflections, and assigns them all to the very lowest rung of the divided line that represents the hierarchy of being (Republic 509 d).
The "fetal programming hypothesis" for instance suggests that conditions very early in human development, even in utero, can leave lasting imprints on a person's physiology and mental health - these imprints may 'affect susceptibility to diseases' with onsets potentially occurring many decades later [ 66– 66].
Add all of that to the mental imagery we are imprinted with in the eastern provinces of this country of a desolate, always-on-fire, post-apocalyptic frontier town grey and ugly with open puddles of crude all over the place that you can fall into and everyone, even the most of angelic children accidentally born there, are given a cowboy hat upon birth.
The most transcendent type of film, they say, leaves a subliminal image imprinted on your mental retina, an image which you only see fully on leaving the cinema.
This possibility of mining the mind (or at least informationally rich structural aspects of the mind) can be potentially used not only to infer mental preferences, but also to prime, imprint or trigger those preferences.
