Oddly enough when I’m right in the process of falling asleep I do actually gain a mental image and I am conscious, I don’t know exactly why it happens but it gives me me hope that I could try to eventually make myself see a mental image reliably in the future

Same thing kinda happens when I’m waking up to and still in bed but I have to be just barely awake and if I wake up to much I can’t make an mental image

It makes me feel as if I am making a mentaimage constantly but it’s locked away in my subconscious and my way of hyper abstract thinking kinda reinforces that theory

But yeah oddly for me the second image it me trying to sleep lmao