I am confused as to the distinction between your "wakeful mind's eye" and your "more abstract mental visualization". Can you more precisely characterize their difference? Is one actually embedded in your visual field, and one not? Can they be employed simultaneously?
Sorry, I mean the same thing by both of those. It is quite abstracted. I can, with effort, summon a fleeting visualization which is a bit more pictorial, but it is not what I would call my mind's eye. More like my mind's strobe light?
By wakeful, I was trying to distinguish the day dreaming mode from sleeping dreams, which are vivid and immersive (and periodically lucid). Those dreams are like being in a simulation or virtual reality. Day dreaming may be like running a simulation, but I am outside it, thinking about it more like a script or story board.
