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?

Asked on March 13, 2021 in Meaning.
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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?

Answered on March 13, 2021.
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I expected that I would go into the… It’s not particularly an idiom in this sense.

Answered on March 13, 2021.
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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.

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