> For me, I can imagine the feeling of being on a windy path, spatially aware of the paths the forest, the mountains - even a stream, but in terms of "seeing" it's more like walking into your bedroom in the dark and knowing where the bed is.
I can imagine this, but if someone just says "you're walking down a winding path", I visualize something much more like the original parent. It takes nonzero effort to bother to mentally render a scene like that, so it doesn't just happen when someone says something; I have to actively want to be imagining it. I don't have some scene ready-to-go that I can drop myself into.
The above changes if a specific place is named, somewhere I've been. Then I'll generate some scene based on my memory.
Your second two paragraphs could have been written by me.
I can imagine this, but if someone just says "you're walking down a winding path", I visualize something much more like the original parent. It takes nonzero effort to bother to mentally render a scene like that, so it doesn't just happen when someone says something; I have to actively want to be imagining it. I don't have some scene ready-to-go that I can drop myself into.
The above changes if a specific place is named, somewhere I've been. Then I'll generate some scene based on my memory.
Your second two paragraphs could have been written by me.