ABSTRACT
Imagery, including mental imagery, is an everyday experience. It can be experienced in terms of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell and movement. One common way in which it is experienced is in creating or re-creating an experience in the mind. This is commonly referred to as ‘mental imagery’, and for most people it is a rich and multifaceted experience. It is also something most people take for granted as one aspect of normal, everyday life, and which they do not necessarily question or examine closely. Self is also an everyday experience that is not generally questioned. Most people have an ongoing, reasonably coherent everyday sense of self that is stable, and serves as a central reference point for organising and interpreting experience. From an everyday perspective, mental imagery and sense of self work together and help give our experience meaning in a range of ways, including value, worth, definition and impact.
