I&#x27;m exactly the opposite. Everything in my head is an image. When I do math, I&#x27;m manipulating shapes, connections, colors. The space seems to be higher dimensionally, as things can be close and far depending on how I&#x27;m &quot;gazing&quot; through the space.  While I can visualize systems as I might see them, I can also visualize them topologically.  That&#x27;s basically how I write code.  I can &quot;see&quot; the path of operation through a ghostlike view. But only a few paths are in focus at any one time. Focus is not a great way to describe it, as it&#x27;s not like the optical effect of focus. It&#x27;s more like being able to feel a tension on a path.  The path&#x27;s I&#x27;m &quot;seeing&quot; are tight and the one&#x27;s I&#x27;m not seeing, are still there but I have no &quot;purchase&quot; on them until I follow them.<p>The way I do calculations used to drive my teachers nuts in grade school.  But my systems always worked.  I do addition and subtraction as complements, which is how I see them.  I do multiplication and division by what I can only describe as folding number lines.  Individual numerals have colors and sounds, and what I can only describe as personalities.  That is, in base 10. In other bases numbers seem boring and flat. I&#x27;m not sure what to make of that.  What if I&#x27;d been raised using octal or hex?  Binary makes me nervous.<p>I make my living as an illustrator and animator, I&#x27;ve been doing CGI since the late 1970s.  I&#x27;ve tried to draw some of these things, but when I try and project them into 2D, I can only get what to most people seems nonsensical. But if I close my eyes or concentrate they are visible inside my head.  I don&#x27;t try and do this very much anymore, because I&#x27;ve found that sometimes this &quot;breaks&quot; the system and I can&#x27;t see it anymore.<p>My dreams are very visual.  Often my dreams are multi-threaded, with several plots and sets of characters. I&#x27;m often more than one person in the dream, or sometimes not present at all. I generally remember the dreams as a linear thing, but they are often connected and &quot;inside&quot; the dreams they seem simultaneous.  I&#x27;ve no idea how to describe the experience better than that.  When I was very young I used to have terrifying dreams that I can only describe as geometric.  Things seemed connected in dangerous or threatening ways.<p>As I&#x27;ve gotten older, I&#x27;ve found that I have to work on problems with more consecutive steps. When I was younger I could &quot;fold&quot; several operations at once.