I've been doing some reading on Aphantasia(a condition where people can't imagine visual imagery), Anendophasia(having no inner monologue in one's mind), and Anauralia(basically aphantasia but for sound) out of fascination. I found out that different people have different levels of vividness for their visual and auditory imaginations, and I'm curious about its effects on problem-solving ability. Would you guys mind replying to the post with a brief description of the process of how you model and reason about problems in your head, and what you believe to be your level of vividness wrt sound and visuals? I would describe myself as having a 3 for visual imagery and 2 for auditory. 
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Ill have to go with 2. I usually get a pretty clear image of the problem in my head
interesting, do you have an inner voice that reasons about the problem?
Yess, it is like an inner monologue.
cool cool, yeah i have that too. i can imagine sounds noticably clearer than i can imagine visual material.
I don't know which category this falls into. Nonetheless, when I am solving a difficult problem, I am mostly doing things in my head, occasionally using a pad to write out proofs and important points. When I am making a deductive proof I go through things step by step in my head, and sometimes take notes. However, if the proofs are complex or I need to visualize something, I draw sketches and use pads. It's because visualizing problem solutions or keeping everything in memory is difficult and it's very easy to make mistakes wrong deductions if the solution is complex
hey appreciate you taking the time to explain your thought process, thanks. could you tell me when you're "visualizing" the problem, how vivid are the pictures(wrt the above scale)?
It's mostly numbers, logics and theories, so don't think it's anything vivid. Usually the difficult part is to maintain consistency as you are trying to remember too many things at a time
gotcha
As someone with aphantasia, I'm definitely a 5. I don't think it matters that much since I can always draw things out on paper if I need to.
wow, that's really interesting to me how you can draw things without a reference image in your mind, which is how i draw.
I always hear someone is reading out what I'm looking at in my mind,so i think i have a 1
nice
In normal life I do talk to myself in my head A LOT(my main way of thinking), but funny thing is that while i'm solving problems it's 50/50 — inner monologue / absolute silence and emptiness in my head, but then randomly coming up with the ideas
interesting, in my case the inner monologue is almost always there unless i'm asleep or smn.