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Some people literally call it a 'stuck thought' as for example in this extract where these words are used in the context of certain anxiety disorders:

Stuck thoughts; thoughts, mental images, concepts, songs, or melodies that stick in your mind and replay over and over again.

Source: http://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-symptoms/thoughts-that-seem-stuck.shtml

The concept you described, if it is a repeated picture in the mind, is also sometimes called a mental afterimage as in these examples:

From google books:

several months after the events [...] the author is still incessantly re-enacting the collapse in his mind. More precisely, he sees a mental afterimage of the glowing tower from different perspectives and distances.

Another example in a literary context:

Major Lund smiles at him encouragingly, and then leaves the room, trying hard to erase the mental afterimage of Beckstrand's [...] face and neck.

Note that 'afterimage' literally refers to a transient anomaly of vision and 'mental afterimage' is its equivalent in the mind.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage

Some people literally call it a 'stuck thought' as for example in this extract where these words are used in the context of certain anxiety disorders:

Stuck thoughts; thoughts, mental images, concepts, songs, or melodies that stick in your mind and replay over and over again.

Source: http://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-symptoms/thoughts-that-seem-stuck.shtml

The concept you described, if it is a repeated picture in the mind, is also sometimes called a mental afterimage as in these examples:

From 'Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel' By Kristiaan Versluys on google books:

several months after the events [...] the author is still incessantly re-enacting the collapse in his mind. More precisely, he sees a mental afterimage of the glowing tower from different perspectives and distances.

Another example in a literary context:

Major Lund smiles at him encouragingly, and then leaves the room, trying hard to erase the mental afterimage of Beckstrand's [...] face and neck.

Note that 'afterimage' literally refers to a transient anomaly of vision and 'mental afterimage' is its equivalent in the mind.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage

Some people literally call it a 'stuck thought' as for example in this extract where these words are used in the context of certain anxiety disorders:

Stuck thoughts; thoughts, mental images, concepts, songs, or melodies that stick in your mind and replay over and over again.

Source: http://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-symptoms/thoughts-that-seem-stuck.shtml

The concept you described, if it is a repeated picture in the mind, is also sometimes called a mental afterimage as in these examples:

From google books:

[...] several months after the events [...] the author is still incessantly re-enacting the collapse in his mind. More precisely, he sees a mental afterimage of the glowing tower from different perspectives and distances.

Another example in a literary context:

Major Lund smiles at him encouragingly, and then leaves the room, trying hard to erase the mental afterimage of Beckstrand's [...] face and neck.

Note that 'afterimage' literally refers to an anomaly of vision and this is its equivalent in the mind.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage

Some people literally call it a 'stuck thought' as for example in this extract where these words are used in the context of certain anxiety disorders:

Stuck thoughts; thoughts, mental images, concepts, songs, or melodies that stick in your mind and replay over and over again.

Source: http://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-symptoms/thoughts-that-seem-stuck.shtml

The concept you described, if it is a repeated picture in the mind, is also sometimes called a mental afterimage as in these examples:

From google books:

several months after the events [...] the author is still incessantly re-enacting the collapse in his mind. More precisely, he sees a mental afterimage of the glowing tower from different perspectives and distances.

Another example in a literary context:

Major Lund smiles at him encouragingly, and then leaves the room, trying hard to erase the mental afterimage of Beckstrand's [...] face and neck.

Note that 'afterimage' literally refers to a transient anomaly of vision and 'mental afterimage' is its equivalent in the mind.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage

Some people literally call it a 'stuck thought' as for example in this extract where these words are used in the context of certain anxiety disorders:

Stuck thoughts; thoughts, mental images, concepts, songs, or melodies that stick in your mind and replay over and over again.

Source: http://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-symptoms/thoughts-that-seem-stuck.shtml

The concept you described, if it is repeated pictures in the mind, is also sometimes called a mental afterimage as in these examples:

More precisely, he sees a mental afterimage of the glowing tower from different perspectives and distances.

From google books.

Note that 'afterimage' literally refers to an anomaly of vision and this is its equivalent in the mind.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage

Some people literally call it a 'stuck thought' as for example in this extract where these words are used in the context of certain anxiety disorders:

Stuck thoughts; thoughts, mental images, concepts, songs, or melodies that stick in your mind and replay over and over again.

Source: http://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety-symptoms/thoughts-that-seem-stuck.shtml

The concept you described, if it is a repeated picture in the mind, is also sometimes called a mental afterimage as in these examples:

From google books:

[...] several months after the events [...] the author is still incessantly re-enacting the collapse in his mind. More precisely, he sees a mental afterimage of the glowing tower from different perspectives and distances.

Another example in a literary context:

Major Lund smiles at him encouragingly, and then leaves the room, trying hard to erase the mental afterimage of Beckstrand's [...] face and neck.

Note that 'afterimage' literally refers to an anomaly of vision and this is its equivalent in the mind.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage