Can you imagine this and tell me what you see?

[ImprobablePuffin]

If you imagine yourself lying on a sun lounger on a beach...in your minds eye, are you 'in' your body on the lounger or are you looking at yourself on the sun lounger from somewhere else? Or something else? How does your minds eye see you?

Both I feel the sun and am looking at the sea and then it's like the camera pans out and it's looking at me . Slimmer me but me !

Looking down at myself.

@TwoBlueFish

In my body. My DH has no minds eye at all and was quite astounded to learn that other people really do see pictures in their heads. He gets very frustrated at things like meditations that ask you to picture things.

I am absolutely the same!

Distance, and so does DD.

I don't see anything, but I can smell the sea, sunscreen feel the breeze and the heat, hear the waves etc.

I'm experiencing that in my body.

Maybe the ones who just see themselves rather than their surroundings see themselves at the centre of every experience, and how it relates to them only, rather than the wider picture?
I think it's very odd to hear "imagine yourself on a beach" and literally see yourself, rather than the beach!

If you said imagine lying on a beach it would’ve been a first person perspective.

You said imagine yourself on a beach. I imagined my self and then put me on a beach.

I am dyslexic not sure if relevant.

In my body. I’ve closed my eyes, I can feel the sun on my skin, hear the ocean, smell the salt etc.

I could zoom up and look down if I wanted to, but it’s not where I’d go first.

Are you saying you can’t get into your body on the lounger or just that it’s not where your mind would first go?

Seems to me one is passive (watching yourself) and one is active (experiencing)?

Not there at all. I'd imagine a past image of a pool I'd been to, say Egypt or Florida or Spain, then I might imagine what the sun feels like on my legs and by doing so place myself on the lounger.

OP, when you remember events that have happened do you remember them from your own POV (as you experienced them) or as if it’s a TV programme you’re replaying where you watch yourself?

@NoSquirrels

In my body. I’ve closed my eyes, I can feel the sun on my skin, hear the ocean, smell the salt etc.

I could zoom up and look down if I wanted to, but it’s not where I’d go first.

Are you saying you can’t get into your body on the lounger or just that it’s not where your mind would first go?

Seems to me one is passive (watching yourself) and one is active (experiencing)?

I can't get into my body I'm just watching myself on a lounger from a distance.

@NoSquirrels

OP, when you remember events that have happened do you remember them from your own POV (as you experienced them) or as if it’s a TV programme you’re replaying where you watch yourself?

Like a tv show where I'm in the scene but I'm not in my body

I'm just wondering how the he'll I get up from the sun lounger, hoping for a forklift truck to come along

I can’t picture it at all. I have no mind’s eye and can’t visualize things, including faces of loved ones.

@user1471453601

I'm just wondering how the he'll I get up from the sun lounger, hoping for a forklift truck to come along

Before kids I'd imagine seeing my body like I'm watching someone, now I'm in my body and seeing the scenery etc

Funny - I don't have an image to start with.

"Imagine you're on a sun lounger" and I'm feeling the fabric of the chair, the plastic arm rests, the smell of sea air and sun cream, warmth on my skin, sand on the soles of my feet.

I don't go to a visual image first.

I can’t see pictures in my mind but I can feel myself being in a sun lounger. That’s pretty weird right?

I am like you OP and see myself lying there. I am visualising looking at me when I was on holiday so see myself and the backdrop as if in a photo.

The really strange thing is that in real life when I am doing things I often feel quite disconnected to my body like I am outside looking in. I guess that makes me doubly wierd.

So when you remember stuff that happened you watch it like a TV show, @ImprobablePuffin? You have no access to your sense memories - how things felt/tasted/smelled/seemed? You don’t remember what it looked like to look out at something from your perspective- you’re always looking on from outside?

Isn’t the mind odd? I couldn’t picture what it looked like from the outside when I gave birth to my DC, for example, unless I’m piecing together from what I know I was wearing/doing/room looked like. But I can absolutely conjure up the sense memories very easily - how it felt, what I saw etc.

Do you dream much, OP?

Yeah I can see myself as if I'm somebody else

I see myself from a distance too OP

I kinda flit between both, though I started at a distance, like a camera and more around the atmosphere/feeling of sitting in a sun lounger than a clear visual, until I read 'in your body' and then went back and forth as I read others answers.

I can go between the different forms, though without prompts I tend to more 'visualize' auditory - like dialogue, sounds - and emotions around something - if I think of something sad enough I will cry. I only tend to really do visuals if prompted or trying to do so.

I’m looking from outside my body. I’m
Not above but looking at myself from the side

Wonder what that means

Both.
I shifted viewpoint as I read your scenario.