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Again, glad to have helped, even if it leaves me feeling a bit jealous of other ways of experiencing things. On aphantasia, I've come to suspect that's an area where the combination of the limits of communication and the variety of experiences that each of us assume are universal mask a much more complicated reality than we tend to think. For example, my visualizations tend to be "hazy" - I can picture things in my mind, but by default, my thinking is very verbal, it's almost all internal monologue, occasionally with abstract conceptualization around the edges, and only when I focus on images do I get something there, and there's a difference between "trying" to visualize something versus images that come strongly and clearly if I can relax and "observe" them. I used to do a lot more drawing than I do nowadays, and that led to some interesting observations of shifts in consciousness associated with both perceiving with my eyes and with my mind's eye.

Anyway, point being, if "visualization" is this complex, I have to assume everything else about thought, feelings, and everything else about the inner life is likely comparably complex, and our tools for conveying such experiences to each other are rough and cobbled together.