Sentence examples for mental projections from inspiring English sources

My work is like that: you think you're looking at a picture but it's not a picture it's something seeking to transport you into another space; my projects are phases of mental projections.

Desperate to forestall succumbing to a "gray-green, tidal emptiness" during his years in captivity, Taimur casts mental projections on the paint-chipped walls of his cell that are just as ravishing as the bit-mapped images crafted by Adie Klarpol, the artist who lends the Cavern its lush, illusory textures.

This audacious novel crosscuts between two psychic screening rooms -- a prison cell in Beirut where an American hostage is shackled, and a virtual reality lab in Seattle -- to draw links between the virtual reality of cyberspace and the mental projections of the human mind.

But in the main, the class invoked the secular pillars of the practice, including sitting in an upright posture with legs crossed and gaze lowered, breathing exercises and "minimizing the distracting quality of past and future concerns by reframing them as mental projections occurring in the present".

Alif falls for Ms. Right on the Web, meets her in real life ("in an instant he forgot all his mental projections of Lebanese pop stars and Egyptian movie actresses"), gets into trouble with the authorities, taps into the secrets of a genie and stirs up a bookload of wizardry and glee.

First, a person's consideration of her interest involves expectations or mental projections of the future, not actually existing material interests.

Ms. Zhang uses a technique adopted from her mentor, Lorin Maazel: "a mental projection".

A blurb for the book promises instruction in "rituals, 'seeing' into other realities, working with the forces of nature, mental projection, and much more".

The heart of the film is his agonized dialogue with this flesh-and-blood phantom woman who seems physically real but whose selective memory suggests that she is only a mental projection of what he remembers of her.

Through his gripping, nomadic lens, the spa city of Art Nouveau façades and neo-classical villas parts company with its history, its geography, to become a stage for encounters and adventures, a place to indulge in mental projection, a visual poem.

In (d) the patient is asking a question in an indirect manner (mental projection as a metaphor of mood).