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I’m kinda late, but anyway.
(Note: This sort of turned into a bunch of rants about my imagination… But oh, well. Maybe it will make sense or something. So yeah.)
I have a pretty good imagination, so while I definitely don’t have aphanthisa, I don’t think my imagination is as vivid as someone with hyperphantasia.
I can sort of imagine things like they are there in real life, but I know they aren’t there and they aren’t super detailed (I can make them more detailed if I try to think about it sometimes). It’s like AR. You look through your phone, it’s there (but out of place a bit). You look around your phone, it’s not there. If that makes any sense at all…
Okay, this sounds kind of strange, so here’s an example. I was going to say that have an overactive imagination, but looking it up, I realized that it’s not that powerful. And I don’t do it that much. Maybe I just control it? *Shrug* I don’t know.
As a kid I was afraid of the dark. So sometimes when I lay in bed at night I would imagine monsters. Not on purpose. But because it was dark. So there I would be staring at the doorway… Mentally fighting monsters. So I kind of turned it into a game. Skeletons were easy. I just mentally told them that, “Hey, there’s nothing holding you together.” (cause they were just bones) and they fall apart into a pile of bones and mostly no more would march forward. Zombies? “You don’t have a brain. You can’t move.” Collapse. Ogres or trolls? “Go away. I want to sleep.” They’re so stupid they just walk off very disappointed. So that was actually fun. XD I don’t remember if there were vampires or not. But, I mentally threw garlic if there were.
Of course there were the unclassified monsters. The ones that my brain made up and I didn’t know what was, so I couldn’t fight them with logic or knowledge. Because, *every educational kids show* KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! So what did I do? I imagined ninjas or angels or lions or some other made up creature to fight them. So there I was, just some kid sitting on her bed coordinating an imaginary fight scene in her room, because my brain had decided to imagine monsters. I think they would fight until I convinced my imagination that, yes, the monsters been terribly beaten by my epic imagined army and must retreat so I could sleep now.

Like @Kelly-lundgren , characters can pop out of nowhere. Like in a dream you don’t know what’s going to happen.
It reminds me of the time I was playing a story in my head in the Story Thieves world, but with me in it as a character. At one point I confronted Nobody in his study. There was the jar and math book on a shelf of course, cause this was after I read Stolen Chapters (book two), but before Hidden Origins (book three). So I walked in and said a line that might spoil the book if you haven’t read it. But there was a mystery surrounding it, so I decided I could do this little head story and figure out some possibilities. Nope. I said my line. A smile cracks on his face and he starts to stand up (which I can already tell, is my brain guessing at possibilities and isn’t sure if this is what would happen in the stories or not.). And then my brain slaps a giant red sign in between character-me and Nobody. “Error 404!” It said (because sometimes my quick imaginings are vague/broad or don’t actually fit what I meant in the first place). But it meant that I didn’t have the slightest idea what Nobody would do next and I couldn’t decide between the possibilities. So much so, my brain was like, “This isn’t going to work.” The character kinda broke my mind. How are you like this? How did the author come up with this? You are so confusing! XD

And what @devastate-lasting said, “I think that my visualizing is pretty vivid, when you tell me to visualize something, I will.”
How vivid things are depends. They can be pretty vague sometimes. But I can make them more detailed if I want to.
Though there was this one time where I was reading a book and the MC was going into a small room that was between two other rooms (a study and sun room, I think) and I didn’t know the room was there earlier when she had gone into the neighboring rooms. So, I had to stop and move the walls in my brain. Cause there was a room there now. My brain kinda refused to move the wall, despite trying to force it to move the wall, I couldn’t move it that much. That’s when I realized the giant heavy card table was in the way. *facepaw* So apparently I just had to move the table and then I could move the wall. *shrug*

“However, my memory tends to warp what people look like, so that I have difficulty remembering their actual face.” I also have this problem. Unless I cement want their exact face looks like, then it kind of morphs and doesn’t look like the real them, except my brain just knows it’s them.

Another interesting thing is that my brain will reuse rooms/sets from previous dreams. I will sometimes recognize them in dream, but sometimes not until I wake up. So that’s interesting. I’ve had continuing dreams that last more than one night that I returned to. Also I can lucid dream, but mostly I just go with the flow of the dream even if I know I’m dreaming. I only end up rewinding or changing the dream if something goes wrong. Once in a dream I was a spy, but ended up getting caught. They had pulled out a map and asked for me to give up intel. But I just said, “I know something you don’t know. This is a dream.” And then I jumped out of the dream and woke up. *nod* So that was awesome. ^_^

I once merged some of my characters into one character. They are now Kay…
Kay: Yep. *fingerguns*

And that’s my crazy mind’s eye/imagination. *vanishes*