In my case, I seem to have enhanced spatial reasoning when thinking about objects, rather than something visual.
For example, if I’m asked to think of an apple, I don’t see an apple (with no color etc.), but I can “feel” an apple in the sense that I can abstractly reason about the 3D space of an apple.
Again, there’s nothing visual about it. It’s almost as if I’m blind, and can form and reason about an apple as if I had only ever been able to hold one.
I have the same experience. Often times I find myself skipping steps when explaining things to other because I'm referencing a very obvious (to me) spatial disconnect between two concepts. I've also noticed that I'll gesture to where in my mind those concepts are located spatially.
Other quirks:
- I am also always aware of which direction "home" is. I can't remember ever being lost.
- I have an automatic annoyingly good memory for songs and sounds
- "Remembering" feels more like a bundle of sense impressions being re-expressed than it does recall. This is nice because I get much more "complete" impression of what my mind remembers happening. Not sure when this changed for me but it was after definitely after a few years of meditating.
Now that you mention this, removing color from the exercise and focusing on the spatial features made the exercise incredibly easy. Trying to visualize color seems to be more difficult.
For example, if I’m asked to think of an apple, I don’t see an apple (with no color etc.), but I can “feel” an apple in the sense that I can abstractly reason about the 3D space of an apple.
Again, there’s nothing visual about it. It’s almost as if I’m blind, and can form and reason about an apple as if I had only ever been able to hold one.