I have a mode of this: my imagination is ‘mostly blind’; I do not imagine »concepts like this author, but my visual imagination is ‘incredibly uncooperative’, I cannot ‘see’ an apple in my mind. Or any other object. There are strange, half-exceptions. So I can ‘very vaguely’ imagine »the image of an apple, but it does not ‘appear’ in my mind’s eye.

There are other exceptions. If I go to memory or ‘imaginary’ scenes, sometimes I can ‘kind of see them in a strange way’ that isn’t really visual. It’s like a curtain behind the blackness that promises the ghost of an image.

I am fairly sure many people actually see what they imagine in their mind. But, like this author, my visual imagination, with strange exceptions, is ‘mostly blind’.

There was one extreme exception in my life which involved contact with a nonhuman intelligence, and, in a few such contact events, I have had waking visions.

I have also had actual ‘visions’ of the kind the prophets speak of, and those are incredibly unusual since the entire normative environment of mind transforms, and I begin to ‘see in time’, this experience is hypervisual, and as if I am actually seeing all that the vision portends ‘as if in a dream whose images contain a living fire”.