btbnnyr wrote:
Most of my memories have both third-person and first-person at same time, third person in left field of view of mind's eye, first-person in right. Third-person can be from any perspective. My favorite one is surveillance camera's eye view. The right side shows the tiny details, and the left side is more big picture. My mind's eye is like this when I am recalling a memory or visualizing things. While driving, I keep track of the road with my right side, and the left side thinks in pictures in my head. It's hard to switch the two and impossible to sustain the switch for more than a few seconds.
Yes, this. I'm glad somebody else replied "I see it both ways", because it kind of confused me at first trying to figure out which way I see things. I think I remember things in three dimensions and can just switch to whichever perspective I want. The experiential perspective has a time axis; the bird's-eye one tends to be a static image with all of the event's duration visible "at once", kind of like a map with a path on it, but with more than just visual data in it. Though, it's technically not bird's eye, as I don't see it from above; I don't really have a perspective on it... it just feels like an object or a shape with my position marked on/in it.
That probably made no sense, but whatever!