The phrase "envisaged himself" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It is a form of the verb "envisage," which means to picture or imagine in one's mind. You can use this phrase to describe someone's thoughts or plans, or to show that someone has foreseen a certain outcome. For example: John envisaged himself becoming a well-known author one day.
Mr. Vovo pessimistically envisaged himself exchanging his present apartment, a large, sunny one, for a single dark cubicle in a run-down rooming house.
The new Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck claims he envisaged himself playing in Arsène Wenger's side long before he signed on deadline day.
As he did this, he envisaged himself thirty years earlier, inserting these same bolts into the same steel, and once more he felt a sense of identity with the great structure.
Optimistically attached to a third Iron Man in 2012, Downey is also signed up for The Avengers the same year: Ask whether he ever envisaged himself as the hero of a multi-million-dollar comic-book superhero franchise such as Iron Man, he quips: "Yeah.
Now he says that he cannot begin to envisage himself in that profession.
But I've tried to create something for the island and I think that I've done that... ...... Could he envisage himself retiring at some point?
Envisaging himself as a modern Sinbad — his other nickname — he had tried to enlist but was turned away, because he was too young.
"I don't think he envisages himself walking through the door of No. 10," a former adviser to Miliband told me.
Asked whether he could envisage himself returning to a cabinet role in any future Labour government, he said: "A week is a long time in politics.
My father, for example, used to say that he wished he had lived in the Victorian age, envisaging himself as a country gentleman with a large estate who spent his time giving orders to servants.
Envisaging himself as something of a prime minister in Washington's official family, Hamilton developed a bold and masterly program designed to build a strong union, one that would weave his political philosophy into the government.
