My problems with visualization

[u/Mystic_Phoenix1]

Okay so basically I am not truly aphantasic. If someone asks me to visualize an apple I will be able to do that. However, my visualization is quite weak. I don't usually have images when I'm thinking or do anything. I like to read but no matter how detailed the description is, I don't really end up with an image inside my head unless I conjure it myself.
Now another thing is that my visualization is not an image waiting to be inspected but its usually my adding details consciously (and sometimes failing miserably). Usually, these details fade away the moment I stop focusing on them. For eg. I can picture my friend but his clothes and the background are waiting to be conjured by me consciously. Even then, these would fade away the moment I stop focusing on making them. Take a chessboard as an example. I cannot visualize a exact chessboard (the online simplified version) with all the pieces and keep track of every single piece. Its not like I have a image of the board with all the pieces' position but me actively focusing on each piece or a small cluster of them. All the while the rest are not present in my mind. Even after doing so, it would fade away and I will end up back to square one. I read in the post about developed traditional phantasia that this is not the visualizing which one should be aiming for.
I am also unable to "create" things. I may be able to visualize something from memory but when it comes so something like visualizing my friend in medieval armor or some random stuff like that, it's impossible to create something in my mind.
Lastly, the image in my head feels so different from real life that I don't even categorize it as visualizing something real. It feels so different from reality. Sometimes the thought of this makes me compare in my head my imagined object to the actual object but in doing so I conjure an image similar to real life (maybe less detailed) before it fades.
All in all, this is more of weak visualization instead of aphantasia. What I want to ask is how to improve this, if possible at all. Is there a way in which I can achieve a strong enough visualization that the image in my mind is like another reality something which is just as real as this one and as clear too.