I began to consider this as my mouth filled with the flavor of pineapple as I remembered the flavor of a pineapple.

Do other senses suffer from the same issue?

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    People with aphantasia have improved spatial memory that tries to compensate for episodic memory.

    So the first thing that I feel when I try to remember something is my position in the room, or where the person speaking to me was standing.

    Same thing if I try and ‘see’ a circle. I’ll just feel the dimensions. Hard to describe but it’s almost like pressure in my frontal cortex. A circle feels like coming down from the left and right in a circular pattern, whereas imagining a tree feels like the pressure is at the bottom pushing up.