visualizing things

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Thanks for the link, strings!

I took the test out of boredom, and got:

This is interesting. Ive always thought in pictures- so for ex, you say ‘bird’ and i can just flip through pictures in my head of all the birds i can visualize. I also daydream a lot and i just watch things in my head, like a netflix show or video game.

I cant even imagine thinking words. Do the words just flash in your mind like a picture?

I think in pictures and short videos, but it's kinda blurry. I can't draw from memory, but I can draw what I see.

I can draw from memory, but more often draw original objects. Sometimes my first guess at the necessary proportions is off considerably. As I sketch, more details become clear to me. To build the velomobile shown in my avatar, I first drew the rider, and then the wheels, because those shapes can't be changed, and their placement is critical. Then came the machinery, and then the structure to tie it together.
I just finished making seven similar drawers, and had precision cut the panels. The little sticks to reinforce the corners were not spelled out in the plans; I just made some square stock and cut what I needed as I went. By the last drawer, I had learned how to cut all eight sticks to the right length in one session. It helped to have finished assemblies to look at.
I'm no whiz at advanced math, but a bit of mental algebra is often very time-saving, as when somebody proposes generating electricity from their downspouts. The math seems to float in my head as various quantities that have to be in balance. I know right away if a problem has a mathematical solution, and can often find it.

The best way I can describe my mind is like this; it starts off with just audio, complemented by sheer empty space/blackness. Then, certain words or triggers spike imagery. So, let's say I was thinking about a subject and the word stallion came up in my mind. Once I have uttered the word in my head, a visual imagine of a stallion pops up often accompanied by sound and movement. The horse shakes its head, flicks its ears, and lift its front left leg up, then exhales from its muzzle and blinks.

Usually the horse is dapple and white, but sometimes brown. This changes if I happen to be talking to someone about the horse and they mention that its a different colour to how I originally pictured.

If I were to continue my thought on a stallion, then more detail would appear in the background, as if a camera was really zoomed in on the horse, and then began to zoom out to reveal the surroundings. So, if I were to start thinking about horse grooming then a person would appear with riding gear on and a horse brush, and they would start brushing the mane and I'd hear the sound of the brush on the horse's mane.

Then, if I were to start thinking about something I might smell in such a scene, perhaps it rained recently there, I would almost smell that.

Once I've finished on a visual train of thought, it usually goes back to a blank space. But I might also think about something that connects to the horse, such as the lyric "you're a f***ing horse" from the music video for the cover of "Move b***h" performed by Ellektra. Then I'd start imagining the music video, and because there's a telephone in that video, I would start thinking of telephones, which would lead to picturing and hearing "Telephone" by Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce.

Yeah, my mind moves from one thing to another quickly, and often in detail.

People sometimes struggle to follow my train of thought, because once I've explained one or two of my connections, I've already moved onto the fourth one in my mind. Then I have to go back and explain the third one and how I got to that from the second, so then they can understand the fourth and so on...