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?

@ImprobablePuffin Same here! And also when I think of a memory, I tend to be looking in at it.

Wow great question, I never thought about it but I imagine myself from a distance. I realise now that this is always the case whenever I imagine myself doing anything - UNLESS I imagine doing something with DS, then the perspective is from within my body, looking at him doing something. How weird!!

OP what happens if you imagine yourself with someone else, maybe with your DC if you have any?

In my body, which is good. I don’t want to look at myself in a bikini!

I can do both and I don't know which one feels more natural. I think outside looking at me... but I've made myself book better.

Both

A lack of mind's eye is known as aphantasia.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34039054

I'm in my body, (actually a better one - may as well upgrade in the imagination ) looking out over the sand and ocean. I know some people who don't actually 'see' this visually at all, either in the body or from a distance. They just understand it as an idea. I find that odd.

The first one. In my body looking out at the view.

I can switch between different viewpoints but my default viewpoint is I am in my body looking out.

I can choose. Like it's a solid 3D model, I can float around looking at myself but also "move" inside my body as well

Looking out through my own eyes, view is fab 😄 wish I was there

If you said "imagine yourself lying on a sunlounger" - then the second one. But if you said "imagine you are lying on a sun lounger" then the first one. It's a very subtle change of language but it would change my perception.

I’m another who initially pictures myself from a distance as if I’m watching a recording or something.

I can put myself in to my body if I think about it but it’s not instinctive.

I wonder if it’s because it’s totally unknown to me, I’ve never laid on a hot beach by the sea so I don’t know the feeling. So my instinct is to view it like I would a travel documentary perhaps.

I visualise like it's a photo I'm looking at I can't imagine myself being there in my body experiencing it.

[quote Krook]A lack of mind's eye is known as aphantasia.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34039054[/quote]
It's not lack of I don't think, it's more I can only do it in the third person.

Also to answer the question about dreaming - I do dream and I remember some very vividly too and I'm IN my body in dreams too. I also have strange reoccurring dreams about a house I don't know in real life but in my dream I know every nook and cranny - not that it's relevant