AspiringRationalist comments on Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles - Less Wrong
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Your visualizations include such details? As the description didn't include such details, they're necessarily undefined - so why did you define them out of their uncertainty?
How many of you dream in concepts rather than images?
Because a visual image cannot lack these details, in the same way that if you are given the prompt "visualize a rectangle" and you do, the image must have some aspect ratio, even though the prompt didn't specify what it should be. You can certainly imagine a man walking into a drugstore in a non-visual way and not include such details (that's what I did, for example).
For the dreams I remember, it's probably ~1/2 visual, ~1/3 concepts and ~1/6 sound only.