[jddj]

I think I'm with you, but I'm not sure if you're putting too much emphasis on visual.

It certainly doesn't seem to come from the same place as regular vision does, but they do say "mind's eye". I can imagine an apple, and even slice it up, spin it around, pour water on it. It has a colour, and can have any colour.

I always wondered how memories seemed (TFA touches on this but not in detail) to people who claimed to be minds-eye-blind. Can you not put yourself back on that beach when you were in your mid twenties? Can you not remember his/her eyes/hair/smile/etc at all? Isn't it kind of an image?

As an aside, the apple thing is actually slightly easier if I dedicate only part of my attention to it, like casually rotating it while writing this text, than if I close my eyes and focus. But I've been working all day so clear focus in general is hard to attain right now.

[lll-o-lll]

> I always wondered how memories seemed (TFA touches on this but not in detail) to people who claimed to be minds-eye-blind. Can you not put yourself back on that beach when you were in your mid twenties? Can you not remember his/her eyes/hair/smile/etc at all? Isn't it kind of an image?

The short answer is no. No to all of that.

The longer answer is that the condition tends to be correlated with severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM). So, yeah, can’t remember things like I was there, or with any emotion attached. Which is sad I guess, but comes with the upside that I can’t remember bad things that happened in that way either.

Also can’t really imagine the future in a daydream kind of way, which I suspect is a downside for goal motivation.

[japostoles]

When I think of a black and white apple in the context you described, vs. a red or green one, there's a difference. The way you've explained it makes me feel like we're similar, and I'm definitely putting too much emphasis on visual.

My sister, though, said when she thinks of something in her mind it's "blurry like [she doesn't] have glasses on", which sounds highly visual.

I'm wondering if it's more about semantics and a tomato/tomato like thing -- technically anything we visualize is calling up a memory, or at made up of various components from memory.