[the_af]

For the record, I can do all of those. When asked to visualize something, I see it in my mind, as if a memory. Very detailed, full color, sometimes moving, sometimes static.

But IF asked to visualize something floating in front of me, I can do that too. It cannot ever be mistaken for the real thing, it's not a ghostly image or a hallucination, but I can sort of pretend something imaginary is sitting next to me and I can, through voluntary effort, "see" it.

Whenever I want to draw something -- or build a scale model -- I always try to visualize the end result first.