i would say that I can imagine picture, how something looks like, but it's kind of like bypassing some image recognition parts of brain and just fire "detected

i would say that I can imagine picture, how something looks like, but it's kind of like bypassing some image recognition parts of brain and just fire "detected objects" neurons. wg. when I imagine elephant I think I can "see" but when I want to eg focus at exact unusual place, like eyebrows (does elephants have them? I cannot really see those details) one also interesting thing is that when I read some book I can "see" story to point where I do not really notice text in the book I'm reading. I think that I'm in the opposite camp than OP, because when I first heard about condition where some people cannot imagine things or do not have inner voice I had hard time to understand how such people think, because for me such visualizations are integral part of thinking. I guess this is one of those things that are hard to comprehend the other side. Edit: for people believing they can see details there is interesting experiment I saw: try to draw a bike from memory. Everyone can recognize a bake but when you try to draw it, you might be surprised that you might not be able to reconstruct correctly some parts