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How I experience aphantasia is as not being able to maintain an image. However I have good spacial imagination.
Extremely jealous. My friend can manipulate 3D objects in his mind and I wish I had that ability! I did an IQ test once that broke IQ down into different brain regions, on visualisation I got around 20%, for spatial awareness I got something like 12% haha.
Your aphantasia is milder than mind, at least you can form the image in the first place. Maybe you might be a candidate for improvement! Have you heard of image streaming technique?
From asking family members it seems like it runs in the family, so I don't have much hope it will improve.
I am able to maintain 1-3 simple objects (so cuboids, spheres etc), though I find the euclideanity of this space to be quite fluid (ie impossible shapes, such as Klein's bottle come naturally), though I can "feel" a few more objects, which can be more complex if I don't focus to much on them.
As for visualising, I can also maintain simple geometry (& plotting simple functions), and I can let my mind "drift" letting it make random images which morph overtime and I cant focus on the details, or I can focus on trying to imagine something and I can feel like I'm looking at it, but don't really see it, even less details.
When I let my mind drift I can vaguely control in which direction it moves (kinda like the control style in slider.io if that tells you anything) and I can vaguely steer it to morph into something but it morphs away soon after. It kinda feels like trying to morph a really viscus fluid, if that makes any sense?
I think it's very genetic, my dad and sisters both have it too
You could be a very promising candidate for image streaming, I know many people get frustrated and don't maintain the practice (guilty here) but I've heard from enough people having transformative effects that I'm going to give it another go.
I mean from the few minutes I tried, I doubt it will work as I use spacial imagination as a substitute for visual imagination. Ie when a scene is described, I "feel" the things being described being there, but don't see them.