I used to think I was somewhat face-blind, but after a few of these threads, I suspect I may be hypophantasic. If I think about one thing in a scene, I can sometimes get a flat image of a very narrow cone of it (e.g. the shop doorway question - I could ‘see’ a small and relatively detailed section maybe a 1-2 feet long, but nothing else. Maybe only my color receptors trigger this kind of memory?)
I do sometimes get very vivid, full color and motion memories that can sometimes even shove aside my ‘present’ visual feed and get my full attention. But that’s rare, usually (not always) related to something traumatic, and always related to memory, not imagination.
My imagination tends to rely more on shape, dimension, and spacial relationships than images. When I used to sew, I was eventually able to fold, flip and invert pieces in my head, even imagine them fastened together and transformed as a unit, but it didn’t really come as images per se.
