Does your dick look smaller than it actually is?

[bathpears Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close bathpears]

I was just wondering: I measured my dick at 6.5" - around half an inch bigger than when I started. However, it doesn't look 6.5 inches - or even 6 unless there's a ruler right there.... It looks really small if I just look at it, even if it's horizontal or in the mirror.... I'm 6" 4" tall - could I just be seeing it from far away? (I'm around 5" girth by the way - if I was 6" I guess it'd look bigger, huh?!)

[Messerschmidt Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Messerschmidt]

Could be your height and the relative proportion. I'm 5' 7'' and I'm always surprised when I measure because it always looks a lot bigger to me than what the ruler says.

[Hockey_NY Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hockey_NY]

I think most people are so used to their own, they probably decipher it as smaller than it is either way. Especially from the view we get (top).


Most of the times in pics, it will look more impressive.

[Editor Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Editor]

My penis usually looks bigger if I lay down and look down.

[Brian98 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Brian98]

mines doesnt looks as big as the stats say in my own opinion, girth ruins my length visually! im 5'10-5'11.

[NeverEnuff Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close NeverEnuff]

Mine looks so small to me, even when I measure I think that it cannot be right I must be smaller than that, so much so it keeps me motivated to keep gaining, guess thats the bodybuilder/powerlifter in me, good is just never enough. I have even questioned the inches on my ruler (seriously, buy a new ruler is on my ocd to do list) and wondered if my measurement are accurate, I feel an inch smaller than I am.

NE

[somebodyelse Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close somebodyelse]

i cheat myself length and I'm still bigger than I look to myself. My pictures tell a completely different story, but to me it looks small

[r2rumble Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close r2rumble]

ive always thought mine was tiny!, When growing up the only thing i ever had to compare it with is some monsters i saw in porns,,, When i became sexually active though every girl has had to stop me in some positions and said it was big if not the biggest, now having measured and from reading these forums i see that i am a bit above average and still feel like when i look at him hes just miniture, im 511 200 12% bf...Also i think since im pretty buff that having big legs makes him look small..i know hes not but it still lingeres in my mind..

[dmcollin Member Find all posts View Profile Close dmcollin]

Its all in your head, im 6 foot tall and my member is bone pressed just under 8 inches, but really i look in the mirror and see 5 1/2. I thought for so long i was just average so i saw average in the mirror, when i actually measeured i was above average, but i had conditioned myself to believing i was average even though every girl ive had sex with said my dick was huge and it hurt like hell. I still saw 5 1/2 in the mirror. You are your biggest critic. Seeing is believing but imagining is irrational. Ruler say 6.5" then see 6.5 when you look in the mirror. Simple

[NP97 Retired ModeratorPEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close NP97]

I do sometimes...
Compare yourself to household objects. Best way to show how big you are in relation to something else.
Like a water bottle for instance.

[aidan784 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close aidan784]

I do sometimes...
Compare yourself to household objects. Best way to show how big you are in relation to something else.
Like a water bottle for instance.

Agreed. I mean for me, also, I roll out 6 inches on the tape measure and think 'that's pretty long!', and I'm at around 7" Bpel and don't feel long. But then for me it's also because of the fatpad.

[cameraobscura Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close cameraobscura]

It does! I took NP97's advice a while ago, good one NP97!

[KasaK Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close KasaK]

I guess this happens to all of us. In my case, I have the same issue, I think my Willie is smalller than it is, but the ruler says something different. To be honest, I look at my Willie and for me it looks like 6" long 5" girth, but the ruler says 7.1" long fully erected and 5.9" girth; but somehow it looks smaller to me.

[GTO Retired ModeratorPEGym EditorPEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close GTO]

Yeh, top down will always give you bad perception.

[Messerschmidt Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Messerschmidt]

So I'm really the only one with an unrealistically positive perception of my dick? Perhaps it was partly due to my EQ of over 9000 tonight (which I'm going to go ahead and blame on the new routine) but I swear I felt like it looked an inch bigger and an inch thicker than the ruler was giving me. Now just to track down all these people making faulty rulers.