I bet when you woke up this morning, even before you opened your eyes, you knew where all of your limbs were. You didn’t have to look at, or try moving them, to feel their presence. This is because you have the power of proprioception (it’s also sometimes called “kinesthesis”). Because it’s a sense, just like hearing and seeing, you can have mental imagery specific to it. That’s what motor imagery is—just as visual imagery uses the same brain areas as visual perception, motor imagery tends to use the same brain areas responsible for moving your body. Imagine putting your hands together in front of you. Now imagine straightening your legs out, then spreading them. Although you might have a visual image accompanying this motor imagery, they’re not the same, and they don’t necessarily come packaged together.