It sounds to me like your brain is WIRED.

Not weird. I'm similar. I know I'm highly visual--as well as verbal--and am trying to work around and take advantage of this propensity.

I'll develop this theme even further:

• Purposeful visualization: Not long ago I started to develop a habit of visualization as an effort to help remember things: a name or the title of a book (I would visualize the words, reading over the letters slowly, several times) ; counting repetitions (I would visualize sequential numbers, starting out hollow, then filling up with color, and bursting like a balloon before the next number appears) ; even lectures (I would pick out key words or concepts and marry it to an image in my mind, creating a running catalog of pictures; I try to keep track of different lectures, sermons, classes, etc. by "filing" them in a mental cabinet).
• Visual attention attenuation: I found that watching a speaker usually diverts some of my attention away from what's being said, so I'll often close my eyes or focus on something neutral like a wall or the floor. It seems like when my eyes are not getting visual input, my brain is more able to readily generate images to go along with the words I'm hearing, and that helps me better understand and retain the material. I sometimes tell people that when I'm looking away from their face as they talk, it means I'm paying even closer attention to their words.

Embrace your "weird". Use it.

This illustrates how amazing our brains are and how each individual has their own unique brain. No two people think exactly alike. It is a futile undertaking to try to force individuals into thinking only one way, thus the issues with politics and religion (among other things).

I think that's a big plus, and one that my brain lacks. I'm more spatially gifted. Given what you described, you must score incredibly high on a Pictorial IQ test.

i do think visually to an extent, and i do see stuff happening when i read, as if watching a movie, but no, the visualizations don't match yours too closely. that doesn't make either of us weird (or NOT weird, for that matter).

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If your brain is not weird you should not be on this site. Thanks for the images they are now lodged in my brain too.