“The idiom – seeing with the mind’s eye means to imagine something by “seeing” it without actually seeing it with your eyes. For example, on a cold winter day you may imagine yourself sunbathing on a hot beach by seeing that in your mind’s eye
The mind’s eye is also a major part of one’s memory
‘HAMLET:
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
My father! – methinks I see my father.
HORATIO:
Where, my lord?
HAMLET:
In my mind’s eye, Horatio.’
In this context Hamlet is using the phrase to refer to his memory, and later in the play, when talking to his mother, he describes his father in detail. In that scene he uses a picture of his father, so is combining that concrete image with the one in his mind’s eye”
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