It's interesting to talk! I believe I have rather the inverse of aphantasia — I "see" music as shapes and colors in my mind's eye. Also I think in pictures and

It's interesting to talk! I believe I have rather the inverse of aphantasia — I "see" music as shapes and colors in my mind's eye. Also I think in pictures and relationships which I have to translate into words after the fact. Whether it is a delusion or not is interesting. It might be moot. Maybe the judgement of realness or delusion is whether it is a competitive advantage or not. I have read that people with more synesthesia than me who can e.g. see numbers in colors, these people can pick out numbers faster off a page as they just go by the color. The color is processed in at a lower level, so it does come out as a competitive advantage. For me, the visualization of everything is useful in interface design. Conversely I find it hard to talk to people sometimes due to the translation lag. Re. the last paragraph, the delusion of a sensation vs. the sensation itself: Very interesting. The vision of the visual field in front of you, the vision of the surfaces and things and light in front of you, that vision does not exist there — it only exists inside your mind, physically inside your head. It is the delusion. Furthermore, the colors you might see do not exist at all.