Not everyone is primarily visual. Some people are much stronger in audio, feeling, tasting, smelling. However because a majority of people are visual, they tend to discribe things the way they understand them, rather than adapting them for those that aren't
I recently did a guided 'visualisation' with a group.
We had to imagine we were in a favourite kitchen.
We had to picture the kitchen, smell the food cooking, hear the sound of the stove, feel the warmth from the oven.
We then had to imagine a lemon, see what it looked like including all the dimples, feel the surface of the skin, pick up a knife and feel it cut through the flesh, smell the juice, then taste a piece of the lemon.
Afterwards we talked about what we found difficult and easy to imagine.
The majority of the group found visualisation the easiest, with a sizeable number being able to imagine feeling the things like the skin of the lemon and the warmth from the oven that were discribed.
Others could only hear the sounds that were imagined and others couldn't imagine a smell or taste.
Probably, your primary mode is not visual. This doesn't make you wrong and it can be improved with practise, but you might find that one of your other senses gives you much more sensory rich data that you can use.
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