Eli5 – How does the “inner eye” work?

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I have aphantasia, a mental disorder where I lack all internal visualization. I cannot “picture” things in my mind, I think in words and numbers and such. With this, I am very curious how the mental imagery works for the rest of you. Do you see it separate from your main vision? Does it get interposed? Is it like picture in picture? I’m baffled!

TIA.

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Look to the ground and listen to something, it’s basically like that.

I can still see but I’m more “absent” in my vision, also the image created in my mind lacks color and the color almost flickers. The image in my mind is not perfect and lacks many details unless I focus on them

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