Nearly every human has the experience of recording all that is exposed to their senses, though it be a candle lit a mile away.
When someone 'picks up a voice in the wind' it is called spontaneous activation.
You can increase this to consciousness by various forms of mental discipline and you find this aptly demonstrated by those who investigate crime scenes for instance. They see what escapes the notice of the average person every day and not just at a crime scene.
Every profession can demonstrate this, a workman on a job soon learns the sounds of their profession, the smells and sights and processes a profound array of information in mere seconds of arriving at a new job site.
Every single driver of any vehicle does the same. A common surfer on the net soon masters the clicks site upon site. Yet watch how timid the new person is to the same activity.
I was a writer by trade before taking to Photoreading; words, ideas and books themselves were my life. I am very accustomed to perusing or studying book upon book in my normal course of research year after year. Acclimatized to both mathematics and logic and used to 'thinking' out the material I read helped make assimilating large amount of material a snap.
So, to PhotoRead a book as fast I turn the pages was but a small step in land I already well knew.
Your mileage will most certainly vary as there are many other factors, such as belief and confidence that add to each person equation.
