What it's like to have aphantasia, the inability to create mental pictures

I have done that test (or a basically identical one) before. The result was that the vividness of my visual imagery is somewhat diminished. That seems like it could be about right, but I find it incredibly difficult to give meaningful answers when you are not on ever extreme of the spectrum. I am definitely not fully aphantasic, but none of my of my mental pictures are “as vivid as real seeing”. But are they moderately realistic and vivid or realistic and reasonably vivid?

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