Interesting although not too surprising when I think about it: as they point out, in the moment perception is sort of lacking in detail too. There's a certain a

Interesting although not too surprising when I think about it: as they point out, in the moment perception is sort of lacking in detail too. There's a certain amount of attentional or working memory capacity, so you're not really capturing all of reality even in the moment, it's probably more like you're focusing and defocusing and refocusing on different details depending on demand, in a sort of real-time series of adjustments. For example, if someone asks you "what color is the ball?" even if it is in a room in front of you you might not necessarily process it unless asked, in which case you visually search to find out. In this sense, imagined worlds could be really vivid, because even the most vivid reality is only incompletely processed in the moment (reality will always be more vivid for lots of reasons nonetheless). This also made me wonder about dreams, in that many similar issues related to details and certain kinds of processes seem to surface there. It's pretty common, for example, for my dreams to kind of "short circuit" and for me to wake up when someone in my dream asks me a question like "what color was that ball?" It becomes evident that that detail wasn't there, and I'm sort of filling it in after the fact.