Maybe two or three times, I've gotten a mental image when I prayed about something that gave me some insight. It wasn't like virtual reality or like I was really there, just pictures. But I think they were from the Lord, so I might put them in the 'vision' category. I wonder if, when Jeremiah saw the almond branch or the boiling pot if he saw it in his mind's eye, was in some visionary experience where it looked real, or literally saw a branch and saw a literal pot while he was walking around and the Lord spoke to him about it.I had gone through a couple of years of college without having to write a term paper. My dialectology professor gave us diskettes with data from one of their surveys. We had to write a paper on it.This is a brilliant idea. I've got to subject my students to such an onerous assignment to get some research ideas.Anyway, I was praying for direction about what the write because I couldn't think of anything. A picture of a dialect map in the textbook popped up in my mind, and I ended up writing two papers on that and getting A's.Another time, I was praying for a friend I had not seen in a long time during 'ministry time' after the service at a church. I got a phrase to pray, no more tears'-- a phrase from a commercial as I recall. I started praying about the tough time she was going through. i saw a picture of her in my mind's eyes with a garland of flowers about her neck and continued to pray as I felt led. She confirmed I was praying about issues she went through. I went through a period of time where I prayed with people a lot and I could pray about details they were going through without them telling me first, as I followed promptings I was getting. That has happened on occasion since. I've probably had the picture-in-the-mind's-eye sort of thing a lot since then. I scarcely think in pictures, and I think in words instead, so pictures may stand out to me a bit more than it does for people who constantly think in pictures. I've also had dreams that I believe were revelatory, too.I can't think of a waking vision that gave me long-term direction, though