Very similar. I can conjure a brief glimpse of an image but never hold onto it for longer than a few hundred ms. I'm left with a notion just as much tactile and

Very similar. I can conjure a brief glimpse of an image but never hold onto it for longer than a few hundred ms. I'm left with a notion just as much tactile and 3D/spatial but without any visual imagery attached. At best, it's like abstract chalk drawings with rough shapes on a black canvas. Very little recall. But the strange part is I experience above-average visual recognition memory. It's like I can take those "chalk drawings" and pattern match them ridiculously fast against real stimulus. I can recognize faces and street corners from decades ago - but only if I see them again in real life. I can't conjure the image up in my head without the corresponding stimulus no matter how hard I try. Personally, I find it strange that non-aphantasic people can effectively hallucinate on demand. It's the equivalent of hearing voices in your head - a disconnect between sensation and perception that, honestly, reduces my trust in their judgement. I know people who are strong visualizers (can play movies on demand behind their eyelids) and find they tend to have a terrible ability to accurately convey a story - presumably they've visualized their fantasy scenario so much they're unable to differentiate it from reality? My narrative + chalk drawing memories are consistently more reliable, if not more sparse.