I’ve a general question on those who visualize over here.
Many people who are good at visualizing say they one should treat the Mind’s Eye like a screen in the movie theatre or television set, where they see whatever they visualize on that screen.
However, the other aspect to successful visualization is that your visual imagination must be immersive. For example, if you imagine yourself at the beach, you can see the beautiful sea, touch the warm sand with your feet, feel the warm sunshine on your body and hear the waves. That is considered an immersive experience.
Going back to the first type of scenario where you just treat your Mind’s Eye as a “movie screen”, how do end up immersed in your imagination? There are limitations to immersion if you simply see your imagination on the movie screen of your mind’s eye - it is like the other senses are not really activated since you are just an “observer”.
The second scenario where your immerse yourself fully into the imagination seems to be like more of being “in the state” rather than being the “observer”.