As a student of Japanese and having previously thought I might have Aphantasia this was interesting to me. But I'm still not convinced that we understand Aphan

As a student of Japanese and having previously thought I might have Aphantasia this was interesting to me. But I'm still not convinced that we understand Aphantasia completely. I think there's a whole spectrum of different conditions in visualisation and everyone has different skills and abilities. Here's mine: - I can currently recall just under 1000 Kanji - The learning system I am using (wanikani) doesn't require me to, but from previous study I can write a few hundred - I can easily recognize people's faces from memory ("never forget a face") - But if you asked me to draw a face from memory I'd have a very hard time - I can visualize geometric figures in my mind's eye and move them around - As a long time software developer I can effortlessly deconstruct a complex system into base abstractions, hold these in memory, and manipulate/recall the constructs in my head - I get a very abstracted visualisation when reading fiction. Lengthy overwrought descriptions bore me and I throw away most of it anyway, so I tend to favour Charles Bukowski over Dan Brown - My imagination is similiar, I can set up basic scenes but I can't "see" the detail in any way like looking at a photograph - My art skills are decent but I'm not working off any kind of internal image. I think of the main points I want to express but I don't know exactly how they'll look until I commit them to paper/pixel - Sometimes when I'm really tired I have very short (under one second) open eye hallucinations where I do visualize random things in extreme detail, indistinguishable from reality. - I have visual dreams that feel as accurate as reality - I have sporadic occasions when I (start to) lucid dream. Before I'm lucid, everything in the dream is vivid, but once I become aware then all the detail of the dream unravels and I wake up shortly after