What is a metaphor for perception?

What is a metaphor for perception?

Definition
	A conventional metaphor in English in which perception and its stimuli are represented as interactions with tangible physical objects in space.

Kinds
	Here are some kinds of metaphors for perception:
	What is a nonvisual-perception-as-spatial metaphor? What is a seeing-as-touching metaphor? What is a visual-field-as-container metaphor?

Generic
	A metaphor for perception is a kind of
	What is a metaphor for mind and mental processes?

Context for this page:

Concept module: metaphor for perception
In modular book: Metaphors in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Lexicon

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