I have this, as does my wife. We both thought it was normal up until about a year ago, until our kids informed us that they actually see the things they imagin

I have this, as does my wife. We both thought it was normal up until about a year ago, until our kids informed us that they actually see the things they imagine. I have very good autobiographical memory and my dreams are so real I sometimes can't tell if I was asleep or not. But I can't visualize something when awake. I can think about it, and I can visualize how things will fit into a space and then make it happen. In fact I'm really good at looking at a room and figuring out how to rearrange the furniture to fit better, for example. Or an entire backyard (I designed all of our landscaping just by looking and imagining). But yeah, no mind's eye. I saw one study that said having no mind's eye was correlated with higher intelligence. Not sure how strong the evidence for that actually is, but I like to think it's accurate. :)