Can you visualize things in your head?

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I can visualize things, but not in a really detailed way. I can create a general picture in my mind, but I can't really recall specific details. Part of that is I just don't pay attention to details. I'm far from having a photographic memory.

It's the same way with faces. I can create a fleeting mental image, but can't really remember exactly what that person's nose, mouth, etc. looks like. When I have a crush on someone, I like to try to picture their face in my mind, and only once in a while can I get a really clear picture of them. Somehow, though, I manage to recognize people when I see them, even if I didn't really remember what their face looked like.

I do visualize when reading, though. And often when I go to bed and close my eyes at night, I see a mental picture of what I did that day. Like, if I went swimming, I'll see the water of the swimming pool in my mind.

The more I appreciate someone, the more I look past their face and thus it gets harder to picture them save for the vibe I got from them. It's like the only people I notice changing are the ones I care most about.

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I can't visualise things very clearly. I'm currently adding a second layer of glazing to a couple of windows, and it's very slow going because it's hard for me to imagine how it all fits together in 3 dimensions. I have to keep looking at the actual window and trying the bits and pieces I've cut out to see how it works. I'm better with 2 dimensional problems, though even that can get too complicated.

I have zero visual memory. I can't even remember what my husband or kids look like if I don't have their photos.

I have a horrid time trying to navigate anywhere, I can't read maps, and I can't remember pictures at all. It's just pointless. I have some face blindness although once I've seen someone 8 or 10 times I start to remember - vaguely - who they are.

I could.

But too bad, I wanna draw what I visualize but I couldn't.

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When I visualize people, they are people I have known in my life time or people I have seen on TV. They are like actors in the book I am reading. When I picture places, it can be my own imagination like places I have seen rather in real life or on TV. I used to have a real hard time with this as a child so I didn't like chapter books as the result and I didn't start reading them until I was 9.I didn't know how to form words into pictures and I didn't even know I could do that until I was older.

But I cannot visualize something and then draw it or look at a pattern and fold it in my head to see what shape it makes or what pattern it makes which is why I suck at geometry and could never do it. I hear autistic people are supposed to be good at this.

If it's something I have never seen before and it gets described, I have a hard time picturing it. I even read something slowly to try and make a picture in my head using the description.

I think I can visualize a 7 dimensional object pretty well.

I can visualize things quite well. I didn't actually realize until about a month ago that this wasn't something everyone could do.

However, I have a rather hard time visualizing outside of my point of view. I mean like from a bird's-eye view or something. We once had an assignment in school where we had to draw a map from the school to the local mall and, while I could easily navigate there in my mind as if I were walking, I was unable to view the route as a whole to draw the map.