[karmakaze]

I took the https://aphantasia.com/vviq test which said that I'm a Hypophantasic:

> A thinking style that relies less on visualization and more on other sense modalities or other imaginative processes to perceive and understand the world.

I agree with this assessment. I had no idea that I was near one end of this scale. I can only focus on characteristics of the imagined thing rather than its image--like conceptual fragments. I can focus on a specific thing, like a specific facial proportion and can conjure up an estimate but it's not much more than a couple blobs with relative size/spacing.

An interesting thing that I had noticed earlier in life is that I can often recognize things instantly from such a fragment, like the gait of a person off in the distance, or even the make/model of cars by the shape of headlamps at dusk.

An opposing/complementary thing is that I have on occasion experienced lucid dreaming where I had loose control of the scene.

[tymscar]

I think I am very much like that myself. I notice it most when I think about a certain logo in my head for example and while I have the characteristics of it,i.e. that its heart shape and I can somewhat visualise that, when I check out the real logo I notice that the heart was lopsided. And from there on I always “see” it lopsided. So while it sure feels like I can see something, in practice maybe I don’t?