Is there a difference between imagination and visualization?

I am not sure if I am able to visualize anything. Maybe I am one of the peple who have Aphantasia. If there is a criminal activity criminal act and police ask witnesses about the person who did it, people are often able to describe the person so good that someone can make a picture of it. If they asked me, I would not be able to describe it at all. What is more, I would not be able to describe the face even of my own mother. I am able to imagine something, though. If you tell me, for example, imagine an apple as big as a melon, or a hole in a door, I am able to imagine it. Is there a difference between imagination and visualization? If there is not, then I am able to visualize things. If there is, then I may not be able to do it.

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Jindřich Pelhřimovský

Dec 26, 2021

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I will ask another question that could solve this. Where do you see the visualizations? Is it in front of eyes as if you used them or it is somewhere in your head?

StumpedSlicken

Dec 27, 2021

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As someone who relates to this post and Mikka's reply, I'll say that it's mostly in my mind and not in front of my eyes. I don't know if it's also from a lack of vocabulary in the sense that I don't know tons of descriptors, but, I can't describe faces or even remember them all that well (same goes with voices) and yet I have a clear visualization of what they should be. I can visualize but, after the session of day dreaming/visualization, it fades or changes.

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Is there a difference between imagination and visualization?