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I do not have a mind's eye*, outside of the dimmest, briefest flash of people's faces if I've known them for several years. I do have a peculiarly strong sense of imaginary touch, which gets used when contemplating problems like these. Also, a significant component of my job is arranging things in 3-space. I'd be one of those people who say "I'm good at tetris" while packing a moving truck, but I am not actually good at tetris per se.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia



Thank you for your reply. Extremely interesting to me. My thinking and memory is pure motion picture and sound, it makes me think that I could be good at geometry as I can do spatial thinking well, however the downside of my thinking style is I've never been able to find a framework that allows me to hold fine detail symbols in space and work with them usefully, I suppose hence dyslexia + dyscalculia diagnosis. Maybe people like me who are in math use whiteboards and notes a lot or something? Maybe people like me don't go into maths so much. Imagination of touch is also very interesting, I've read about kinetic leaners before, I like to touch things when I'm learning as it helps with the recall later, but absolutely zero sense of touch is present in the recall. Sorry for the massive tangent, I'm just very curious about this stuff!




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