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Could also be part of a significant portion of people have undiagnosed aphantasia.
Learning that some people can't mentally visualize anything, but pictures of memories that they can't modify since they have no imagination felt wild.
Aphant here! I would actually love your theory to be true but unfortunately no amount of training or practicing makes me better or even able to visualise. Believe me, I spent many years trying and practicing art before I heard about aphantasia and realised thats what I have.
If I looked at 10k slop pictures and their corresponding prompts I wouldn't be able to imagine the outputs any more than I already can (which is not at all).
Likewise I can't do meditation or self-hypnosis where the guide says stuff like "imagine you're lying on a beach" etc. At least it makes me immune to those stage hypnotists who try to get someone suggestible up on stage.
I don't know if training would help alone, forcing your brain to create new neuronal connections is probably necessary.
Personally that came from deep painful emotional instances in my early life where I had nowhere else to hide but within myself. I have 3d imagination in which I can create full environment and caracters. It is entirely different from dreaming that I remember while waking up,. Memories or half awake dreams that I make operational decisions.
I actually had the reverse issue of you. I had to learn not to imagine what was discussed, saw or dreamed since some people would discuss things I didn't want to imagine. It made my memory worse though.
https://youtube.com/@codeparade
Since finding this developer, I have been trying to visualize 3D environmental as 4D. I can create some new axial rotation, but I am still trying to determine how to find the actual 4th vectorial rotation in objects. Unusual problem to have I guess.
Just watching his video "I published a math paper" from your link and he's very good at explaining things for the layman (me)