It is not meditation

In meditation the mind should be used to calm the body, but beware if you are using visualizations as an excuse for meditation. Visualization is not meditation and it will not lead you out of the mind. Images in the mind are ideas and they belong solely to the mind. You can be deceived into thinking that you have had a spiritual experience, but in reality you have just stroked the imagination. This will have an effect on your mind, but it will not necessarily lead to awareness or reality. Reality is not experienced as an image in the mind, it is felt within as your true nature, it is not outside the identity of which you really are. Imagination is outside the reality of who you truly are.