Good read! Never really gave these special powers of us a thought in that way.
There is an opposite phenomenon to this as well: Aphantasia. The case where people have no visual representation of their thoughts at all…
So they would think of a bird, but not see a bird, they would just really think of it… I'm really still struggling with how that thinking without representation "looks" like, and whether or not it affect how and what a person thinks about, and forgive me when I say I really think it's interesting ! Just as your post for that matter, thanks!
Just found this site about Aphantasia in case SO's interested as well: http://aphant.asia
I hadn't heard of that before, very interesting!
I also couldn't imagine how you would think of something without picturing it in your head, must be very difficult for those people to design something visually.
Thanks for your input!