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Inquiries into Human Faculty
3.
In some instances quite as bright as an actual scene.
4.
Brightness as in the actual scene.
5.
Thinking of the breakfast-table this morning, all the objects in my mental
picture are as bright as the actual scene.
6.
The image once seen is perfectly clear and bright.
7.
Brightness at first quite comparable to actual scene.
8.
The mental image appears to correspond in all respects with reality. I think
it is as clear as the actual scene.
9.
The brightness is perfectly comparable to that of the real scene.
10.
I think the illumination of the imaginary image is nearly equal to that of the
real one.
11.
All clear and bright; all the objects seem to me well defined at the same
time.
12.
I can see my breakfast-table or any equally familiar thing with my mind’s
eye, quite as well in all particulars as I can do if the reality is before me.
Cases where the faculty is mediocre.
46.
Fairly clear and not incomparable in illumination with that of the real scene,
especially when I first catch it. Apt to become fainter when more
particularly attended to.
47.
Fairly clear, not quite comparable to that of the actual scene. Some objects
are more sharply defined than others, the more familiar objects coming
more distinctly in my mind.
48.
Fairly clear as a general image; details rather misty.
49.
Fairly clear, but not equal to the scene. Defined, but not sharply; not all seen
with equal clearness.
50.
Fairly clear. Brightness probably at least one-half to two-thirds of original.
[The writer is a physiologist.] Definition varies very much, one or two
objects being much more distinct than the others, but the latter come out
clearly if attention be paid to them.
51.
Image of my breakfast-table fairly clear, but not quite so bright as the
reality. Altogether it is pretty well defined; the part where I sit and its
surroundings are pretty well so.
52.
Fairly clear, but brightness not comparable to that of the actual scene. The
objects are sharply defined; some of them are salient, and others
insignificant and dim, but by separate efforts I can take a visualised
inventory of the whole table.
53.
Details of breakfast-table when the scene is reflected on are fairly defined
and complete but I have had a familiarity of many years with my own
breakfast-table, and the above would not be the case with a table seen
casually unless there were some striking peculiarity in it. 
54.
I can recall any single object or group of objects, but not
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