That's likely something that anyone with a 'mind eye' can do.
I wonder if that's something that can be trained, just like 'fixing' aphantasia can be trained [1]:
- Sit in front of a table, with a large vase of flowers on it.
- Remove the vase and put it behind you.
- Looking at the now empty table, try to remember the look of the vase on it.
This is how it 'feels' being able to put imagined objects into your FOV. You don't get to actually see it, but you can imagine what it's like to do it.
Well, I have a mind's eye. I've gotten quite deep into it before for dissociative reasons. But it just doesn't seem to work very well for me at any other time. Whenever I try to imagine something like that I get frustrated that I can't really "see" it well.
Yes, I can imagine everything about what it would be like to see it. But I cannot actually see it.
I'm so jealous.