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I'm a 2 on this scale. I can "see" the image. But it's not like it's in the world in front of me. It's not like 3D goggles have drawn a virtual object on the table in front of me. If I'm picturing a football, I'm not just imagining the football; the picture in my mind is of the lawn, and trees, and sun, and whole environment where I am standing looking down at a football.
When I picture something, I can see it clearly, it's in my mind's eye. I see it, but it has it's own environment. It's like my eyes are outputting the actual primary PC desktop, and my mind's eye is a separate virtual desktop in a different area, but running off the same processor. For people who haven't experienced this, I would describe it like dreaming. In a dream you're seeing things, but not with your eyes. It's like a dream scene, but my eyes are open and I'm getting visual input too.
I often zone out, or miss parts of what people are saying because I can easily start concentrating on my mental imagery. I find online video meetings incredibly difficult to keep up with because I can easily end up re-living some other fun activity I did recently and concentrating on that instead. I have a bunch of fidget toys on my desk to get me through these online meetings (if I focus on the fidget toys, then my mind doesn't go to its secondary virtual desktop).