"your own impression" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to someone's opinion or judgment. For example, "The story left a deep impression on me, although I know it was just my own impression."
Which I think goes back to this book; no two people read this book in the same way, because this book is so sparse, it gives you so much room to have your own impression of it.
How closely does your own impression track that of Ruthie, that "graduate school was the part of my life when I had the most free time and the fewest obligations, when I discussed fiction the most and read it the least"?
I didn't want it to be like 'Oh, you get your own impression of the lyrics.
Others provide you with their impressions of an object or event from their point of view, and thereby you can fine tune your own impression.
It's better to start with a rudimentary idea of the sound, and add your own impressions as you encounter new acts.
INTERACTIVE FEATURE Read about the works at the Venice Biennale that stuck with the Times art critic Roberta Smith, and then add your own impressions in six words.
To absorb your own impressions, stop at the Bridgeview Restaurant on the trail and take a booth in the smoking section for a good view.
See below for more details from the longer version of the article that was published Tuesday in the International Herald Tribune, and let us know what your own impressions of Ms. Merkel are.
So let me know in the comments below what other meetings I should get to and, if you were at the debate last night, tell me your own impressions.
(Here's a finding you can test against your own impressions: between 2007 and 2009, during the 110th Congress, the most Republican phrases were "domestic energy product" and "Wall Street Journal" and the most Democratic were "education, health care" and "mental health service").
Of the people to whom you almost blindly entrust your life--surgeons and pilots come to mind--you may get some idea of a surgeon through references, former patients, affiliations, and perhaps from your own impressions during a consultation, but an airline pilot is a remote and unknown figure.
