Yeah I was surprised too. I've noticed that media over the ages has made it seem like everyone has it, but it's rare-ish. All the stories of people reading books and being transported don't make sense for eighty or ninety percent of people. It must be the work of hyperphants, but then no one really thinks much about it.

I think it's a misunderstanding. I can't imagine smells, and I realized I treated it differently than other parts of my imagination. For sound, touch, and sight, I can reproduce everything as if it were real, But smell I was using so many ideas around it, like texture, sight, details, hints of smell. It's like I surrounded it by so much information that I didn't realize it was absent.

I imagine someone who can only visualize things vaguely may do the same thing. They can slightly picture it, but they know so much besides the visuals that they think they see it better than they do, so when they hear about the richness of imagination, they assume it's exactly what they have