What does the word’saw myself going’ stand for?
What does’saw myself going’ mean here?
I saw on the door surgical started at 8:30 and I ought to have guessed it would be a lot of people as usual, but for some reason I saw myself going into and seeing Dr. straight off.
Why doesn’t a person understand my philosophy of life?
What definition of to see is being used here is
3 a : to form a mental picture of : visualize
So you can parse this as
I visualized (what did I visualize?
myself ) (doing what I did?. Do
you have
any feelings about going on holiday?
I expected that I would go into the… It’s not particularly an idiom in this sense.
In this sort of context what you’re reading is commentary on a prediction, not literal situations.
Did they actually have a “logical” scenario in mind in which they would go to The Doctor’s office instead of waiting for 20 minutes?
In practice, this usage of See is almost always in a pragmatism scenario-driven context, similar to Oracle “seeing”
the future.
