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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Imagine you have a computer with two screens, the main one is your eyesight and that is connected to a camera, the other one has whatever you want to put up, you can’t turn off the main screen but you can block the camera, the secondary screen usually has the easiest to use 3d modeling software pulled up and you can make things by thinking about them, this could be items, could be an entire world, it could even be a flow chart, but in here things are only limited to what you can think of.

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