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Hyperphantasia

Unusually vivid, often photograph-like mental imagery — the opposite end of the spectrum from aphantasia.

Some people report mental images so detailed they are close to real vision. This is termed hyperphantasia. Like aphantasia it is not a disorder; it is a description of where a person sits on the imagery-vividness spectrum measured by questionnaires such as the VVIQ.