[southernplaces7]

Speaking from personal experience and only that, I've always had a fairly vivid imagination and yes, the images created in the mind's eye during an imaginative episode (in not referring to dreams here, but waking-state fantasies desired or not) "look" remarkably clear. It's not the same as literally viewing something because you're fundamentally aware that you're lacking the external physical stimuli of a real thing, but the mental fidelity of details is more than good enough to perceive colors, textures, specific appearances and with a bit of focus even tiny details of an internal visual story.

I always assumed this was completely normal for most people, but apparently it really is difficult for some.