“Anauralia”—the auditory analogue to aphantasia

[Neuro]

Aphantasia is the inability to evoke one's own imagined conscious images.
"Anauralia" is the inability to evoke one's imagined conscious sounds.

People Who Can’t Picture Sound in Their Minds

For some, the brain is a quiet place.

nautil.us

How does the audiophile perceive internal sound in the thought?
Does the perception only happen in real-time?
Can we recall exactly a specific sound from a certain speaker/room event? Or is the perception biased by other factors?
Can we perceive the optimal sound which we have never heard through thinking?

JM

 

[InfiniteJester]

I have an issue with this: most of the sounds I imagine are "interpreted" by my own "voice".

For example, instead of imagining a saxophone, for example, I imagine my inner monologue imitating a saxophone.

This doesn't happen 100% of the time, but ≈80% of the time.