One of the reasons we lose our eidetic memory is because from about the age of 6 to 7 we start speeding up our thinking processes. We use a word to describe a multitude of things. Rather than trying to interpret the image that comes to mind. My question is which is really better? An image of the page that you have to 'read' to put to use or a mind that has already processed the information so that you can act on it immediately when the need comes up?
Or another way... do you prefer that your mind knows how to work the breaks on your car or bike as you are going down a hill or would you want to be 'reading' the instructions while gaining speed as you go down the hill?
We still have that photographic/eidetic memory its just that our mind has sorted it out for us so that we can act on the information a lot faster than we did as a child looking at that eidetic picture in our mind. One picture may be worth 1000 words but one word can create 1000's more pictures in ones mind. When we say the word chair any number of chairs can come to our minds and everyone will have their own image. It might even be the chair in the room. If you had to descibe a chair from an eidetic memory it would take a while. Yet when we say the word chair we've given it more meaning than being one particular chair. Our mind knows that a chair is a piece of furniture for parking our rear end on. Yes, I could have said that differently and it would have created a different image in your mind. The point was if it created any images in your mind then you still have a photographic memory. It moves a lot faster and is more efficient than the eidetic memory was that's why we don't notice it anymore. The picture flashed by a lot faster.
Alex
