I think this is a typical response for someone with aphantasia.
To see why your take might be false, many people dreams have a fidelity of images that is comparable to reality, even for people with aphantasia. Do you dream with this fidelity? Can you recreate that fidelity while awake?
There are also testable differences that support the claim that people can actually visualize, in photographic detail, images while awake [0].
To see why your take might be false, many people dreams have a fidelity of images that is comparable to reality, even for people with aphantasia. Do you dream with this fidelity? Can you recreate that fidelity while awake?
There are also testable differences that support the claim that people can actually visualize, in photographic detail, images while awake [0].
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7856239/