Hector Martin

?????? this is a thing? people can see pictures with their eyes closed?????

I'm not sure I'd call it "just as vivid". What I visualize is like a higher-level representation of the image. I can try to focus on a particular part and visualize it in more detail, subject to the limitations of how much I remember about it. But it's not like a photo.

If you're seen my laser tracer stuff, it's kind of like that, with varying levels of detail/simplification. I figure how good you're at this varies between people though. Obviously people with photographic memory are much better at recalling such details.

Ha, so you still get to recall sound? I lack that as well; as a drifter teen I discovered I can 'hear' music I'm thinking of vividly when I'm extremely exhausted, on the verge of falling asleep, and actually thought I was hallucinating before I learned people do that all the time

I'm the same, but interestingly it's not an exact copy. It *feels* like an exact copy, but if I sit down and actually try to analyze a song and copy it in a synthesizer, I often find I've been picking up (and audiating) some parts wrong.