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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9293923" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, on the bright side you don't have to worry about daydreaming when you are driving a car causes your vision to be replaced with what is in your mind's eye.  I have to be very careful how much I engage my visual imagination while performing a task or I cease to consciously see.As a highly spatial thinker who thinks in pictures and then puts words to them, even to the point of seeing and hearing the text I am now typing before I put it down, this is one of those things that I have a hard time imagining.  It's like I get that blind people would struggle to do it, the way that deaf people would struggle to imagine sound, but that you lack a playback mechanism much less the ability to conjure up something baffles me.  My suspicion is that it's like color blindness or autism or inappropriate hyperfocus - really really annoying except in those narrow moments it becomes a superpower.  To make up for the lack of mental imagery your verbal skills would have to be really high.  I mean I can't remember the name of half the things I know because they are only coming up as pictures and referents and I can't attach the right sound to them.  I suspect you don't have that problem.</blockquote>