Hector Martin

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.

You know what the most bewildering question people ask when you say you don't seem to have an imagination, or visual memory? It's 'why (or how) do you read books then, if you can't see what happens?' It really gets you thinking on how different our conceptual frameworks are

You know, this reminds me of language. I'm bilingual (half trilingual?) and people ask me what language I think in. I... don't know? Unless I'm explicitly trying to put things into words, it's some abstract conceptual system, not a language.

Same, basically. And this seems to be very much related to how I can't see things in my head, but still somehow can translate them to paper - it's like you don't have to, it's something deeper. I see my drawings the first time when I am actually drawing, like everyone else

Oh I do that too, explicitly, sometimes. I find it interesting to imagine myself writing an article or giving a talk. But most of the time there is no conversation, it's just some kind of higher level conceptual flow.