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That test doesn't work, at least for me. I can't visualise at all, but I can think about my house and remember how many windows are in each room. The difference is I remember them abstractly, not visually.

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Same with me. My description of it is that my "visualisation" is not "visual" but "conceptual". I don't SEE the room and therefore the windows, but I know the concept of the room with it's windows.

That's a really good way of putting it, and it's fits me to some extent too. Thanks.

For me its almost like that. But I have like a vague visualization. Like I recall what it looks like to be standing in those positions or looking in that direction, but it's never a sharp or stable image. Rather very fleeting.

To me it's like there is a visualization ability that is turned all the way up when I am asleep and turned most of the way down when I am awake.

Yeah, when i'm visualizing i'm just describing how something looks with language. I could write out a description of walking through my house and counting the windows i find, and that's pretty much the same as what i call visualizing. I even dream occasionally without visuals, just me telling the story of what's happening in the dream.

Do you have audio, scent, taste , or touch memory?

I can't visualize, but I have all those. So for example I can think about objects abstractly, remember their smell and feel them.

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