Do y'all actually imagine PICTURES in your head when reading a story/description or is aphantasia a made up term?
I'm an artist, I like reading and writing, I've always had a vivid imagination in the sense of concepts and stories ever since I was a kid, so it wasn't until recently that I found out about aphantasia and went "isn't that just how vision works?"
Let's say, if you talk to me about a city I know for a fact that it includes cars, buildings, I can picture a liiiitle of the smog and hear in my mind the people walking and music but I genuinely cannot create an "image" in my mind. This is why I love character creation and looking up official art of the books I read, it's like I need a reference to *know* what I'm thinking of. Audiobooks are terrible for me unless they have sound fx for this reason, they make me feel blind. Does that make sense? Is everyone else like this or do you have like super mind powers that let you even see a pink elephant instead of thinking "okay, I know how a pink elephant would look like"m