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Yes, but not visually. Which is to say, if I'm sitting in a room, looking at a wall, and then close my eyes, I still have a sense of where that wall is in relation to me, despite no longer being able to see it. I can navigate through a mental space "spatially" in the same way, with a sense of my own imaginary presence and its spatial relation to the memory of the place I'm moving through.
Interestingly, I can also do it with objects and animals. So despite not being able to visualise a horse, I can conjure up a mental spatial map with me and the horse in it that lets me "know" our relative sizes and locations. I can move it all around as well, and still feel "where" everything is, without seeing any of it