Interestingly, I&#x27;m pretty good at mental rotations, thinking of complex shapes, etc though I don&#x27;t actually &quot;see&quot; the objects in my &quot;minds-eye&quot;. They still remain abstract concepts.<p>The only analogy I can draw is this:<p>Imagine these &quot;concepts&quot; in your head:<p><pre><code>    Recursion
    Monad
    Quantitative Easing
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They don&#x27;t particularly have an &quot;image&quot; associated with them. I can think of &quot;recursion&quot; as an idea and have a mental understanding of the concept, yet I don&#x27;t see it as a picture (I assume that most people don&#x27;t actually see it as a picture, but perhaps they do).<p>Now, when I think of things like:<p><pre><code>    A Dog
    Flower
    Sunset
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I still think of them as abstract concepts. Like the activations in my mind when thinking of &quot;recursion&quot; are of the same kind as when I think of &quot;flower&quot;. If I really focus strongly on thinking of a dog, I get a really fuzzy &quot;flash&quot; of a visualization of a dog, but it&#x27;s in no way &quot;image-like&quot;. When I do this I can feel my brain really really working hard and it&#x27;s mentally tiring.<p>Understandably, it&#x27;s hard to express the internal mental life in words :)