Control is the ability to change images and manipulate bonds.
These memory images are not as vivid as a movie, but typically clear enough for us to describe past events. That's helpful for remembering details but not necessarily for solving problems.
To solve problems, we must be able to control or change the images.
Control: I can, for example, with some effort imagine how my home office might look cleaned up, with the clothes in the closet pressed and hung in the same direction one inch apart.
I can see the bed made so tightly that a quarter would bounce off it if it were dropped on the blankets. The floor would be so cleaned and polished that I could see my reflection; and the lumps on my arm, which my wife gave me would all have gone away.
Control involves mental manipulation of the images. In the following two examples, let’s see how well you do.