Visual Thinking?

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I would love to see the world through someone else's head.
Then I'd know what I have! and probably completely insult that person when I said so
What do they see???
How do they plan their day without visualization???
Is that why they need to be social?
Has anyone ever figured out what's ailing the NT mind?

If you tell me to think of an elephant with a cupcake on his head I can see it in front of me but not through my eyes through my mind. So many people envy this ability. We are all gifted in this area.
I can not imagine life without it.

Wow, this is exactly how my mind works. I'm constantly getting images in my head and also if someone mentions a country or city my mind is like google earth and zooms to that place on a map in my head. This might be because I have spent many hours staring at atlases throughout my life. Also I have a time line in my head; for years, centuries, millennia, and months. It is hard to explain as it is quite abstract but different decades form a sort of spiral. The last decade is shaped like a parabola in my head. Don't know why.

This discussion is really interesting to me, and I'm glad to see so many replies since yesterday. I agree with jacked that I would like to see what it would be like to think like someone else, if only for an hour (I think a day might get scary), to see if colors and numbers go in my head in completely different ways...I doubt that I would get one answer from any two people, but I would like to understand how different I really am from your average NT. It's sort of comforting to read that so many people have posted similar experiences at WP, though! ^^

I took the quiz that Mirror21 posted. I got 3.86 Spatial, 3.57 Logic/Math and 3.57 Naturalist intelligence. Can't argue with any of that

4.43 = language
4.00 = spatial
3.71 = musical
2.57 = nature
2.14 = body movement
2.14 = self
1.86 = social (no surprise there then)
1.71 = logic/maths (I know I'm crap at maths but I thought I was very logical)

I have visual thinking combined with a lack of verbal thinking. I think that's an autistic kind of thinking, +visual, -verbal. It really takes a lot of effort for me to think verbally. Most NTs who think visually are +visual, +verbal. There was a study showing that NTs used visual+verbal strategies to do some things, and HFAs used visual only strategies. People in the AS group used visual+verbal strategies, not just visual like HFA group.