Are you Aphantasic? If so, how do you feel?

You know when you're on your home page online and articles pop-up? Some maybe latest news, or items of interest? Well I came across one that asked if you are Mind Blind. By that, they meant what do you see when your eyes are closed. If you try to imagine something, do you see an actual image in your Minds Eye, or is everything just black? Apparently some people are born with this (it's not an illness), some lose the ability to 'see' images due to age, physical or mental trauma but I think it said that 1 in 50 just cannot see a mental image.

In my case, this explains a lot to me. It's probably why I have no sense of direction, I can study a route if I going somewhere but I can't 'see' a map in my mind. I like to paint but cannot make up a picture, I have to have a reference photo to paint from. Also, I wonder if that is why, when I dream about people I know, or family members, they don't actually look like them. It could also be the reason I can't follow a guided meditation. If someone asked you to imagine walking from your car down onto a sandy beach, towards the waves rippling onto the shoreline. Could you see a picture of this in your mind? This has only been looked into (pardon the pun) over the last few decades but only in the last few years been given the name of "Aphantasia".

At least now, I don't feel like I'm losing my mind.