What do you genuinely just not understand?

I’ve always known but still have no idea how clear these images are or if they can actually just think of something and it shows up in their head. In kindergarten they always had us do these things like close your eyes and imagine x. I just saw the blankness of having closed eyes. The closest I can get to seeing images in my mind is with closing my eyes and then rubbing them, like a crying child in a way. I would call these more of hallucinations in my head than images. I can’t control the things I see. Usually it’s just patterns, sometimes there are colors, very rarely there are things that look like they are vaguely familiar. If I move my eyes anywhere everything just goes away. I really want to be able to just imagine things in my head, it seems awesome.

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