I wonder if there is a coincidence between people with extraordinary vision and an extraordinary capacity for fantasy. Maybe those same fantasies can trigger extraordinary acts of creation by scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, etc. On the other hand it could turn someone into a disfunctional wreck. I'd expect an overabundance of hyperphantasiacs toward both edges of the success-failure distribution.
I see a lot of mentions of Aphantasia here, but I'm at the opposite spectrum and think others might also find this interesting.
As an aphantastic, I can’t picture what being hyperphantastic is like but I can kind of imagine.
I was walking down the road the other day with a friend and had an SUV drive by with a dog in it. I perceived just a flash of the dog in the corner of my eye.
I told my friend that I experienced a full range of sensations in my mind including the texture of the dog's fur, the sound of the dog panting, the smell, ...