As someone suffering from Aphantasia [0] (I don't have mental imagery at all) and I've been telling people for the longest time that this is how I relate to the world. I summarize things. Even my mother's face. A post by a Facebook engineer [1] felt like a good way to understand it.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
[1] https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/medic...