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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Its more like a parallel process for me. Like i can imagine an apple pretty easily keeping my vision.

But if you ask me to imagine an entire apple store with the seller i would need to focus for that and my current environment would remove from my focus.

How ever, i can overlap the environment like use the currenr environment and draw things on top of it or do something else.

Like tv in front of me is not pn, i can imagine something is playing on it along with sounds. Pretty weird.

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