Something that might help - in this specific instance - is trying to contrast with others.
That is: if you show this photo to people that you know and you compare and contrast _how detailedly_ you can imagine the apples, that can help.
For example: are you imagining a _specific_ apple? What high-level color is it? How about more specifically? How does the color change across the surface? If so, does it have any distinguishing features? Leaves on the stem or no? What does the bottom look like? Can you turn it around and describe that?
Folks who are high up on the spectrum (like 1) can often answer these questions specifically, whereas as you go down the spectrum these tasks seem progressively more impossible.
That doesn't really help me, because I feel that I could answer those questions in detail but also truthfully say that there is no image at all of the apple in my head.
I guess what I'm saying is that image / not-image binary doesn't really map on to how I perceive the experience of my own imagination.
But again, maybe that just means I'm a 5 and I'm coping.
That is: if you show this photo to people that you know and you compare and contrast _how detailedly_ you can imagine the apples, that can help.
For example: are you imagining a _specific_ apple? What high-level color is it? How about more specifically? How does the color change across the surface? If so, does it have any distinguishing features? Leaves on the stem or no? What does the bottom look like? Can you turn it around and describe that?
Folks who are high up on the spectrum (like 1) can often answer these questions specifically, whereas as you go down the spectrum these tasks seem progressively more impossible.