I was amazed to find out people have aphantasia. I'm def. a visual thinker. I went to art school, and had a hell of a time, until I could competently draw out w

I was amazed to find out people have aphantasia. I'm def. a visual thinker. I went to art school, and had a hell of a time, until I could competently draw out what I imagined in my head (my hand/eye coordination had to catch up!). But even before that, I could visualize a lot of detail on just what I wanted something to look like. I could see a detailed part, or manipulate the visual in my head. I remember waking up and playing Tetris in my head before I got out of bed. I could keep track of the piece falling, the next piece and the board as it stood. Even when I started programming, I would just remember like, the pattern the code made, and where it was within the file structure. I never used an IDE - I kinda felt like I could fit the entire thing in my head and just compile it dynamically to imagine what it would do. Some languages are easier to do that with then others. Even before that, learning HTML coincided with dreams of simply writing HTML and seeing the results. I had a nightlight until I was at least 12 (off and on), as I would imagine the craziest things happening while I slept. I also suffered from sleep paralysis - I can still picture some of the demons that were on top of me from 25 years ago. To this day, I live in a daytime world of constantly daydreaming, making up scenarios, and playing them out. I probably shoulda went into film. Anyways, y'all aren't like that? Weird.