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Interviews examined the sensory, embodied, spatial, temporal, relational and agentic qualities of inner\u2010world experience. Transcripts were analysed idiographically before patterns of convergence and divergence were examined across cases.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Four superordinate themes were generated: (1) inner worlds as lived, multisensory and embodied environments; (2) architectures of containment and passage; (3) awareness without authorship, distributed agency and internal governance; and (4) the internal community, comprising roles, relations and forms of selfhood. Across themes, places, boundaries and relationships regulated containment, access, communication and possibilities for action. Participants could be aware of internal events without experiencing themselves as able to initiate, stop or alter them.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Inner worlds were experienced as embodied, spatially and relationally organised environments rather than as uniformly voluntary constructions. The separation of awareness from authorship identifies the distribution of perceived agency within one whole person as an important phenomenological dimension. 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