Mental Image Picture
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Mental Image Picture is a term that Dianetics originated. The term represents what a person is aware of during the recalling a past moment. A person recalls, say, a time when they viewed the ocean, when they saw shoreline and blue ocean water. The Dianetics term for that memory moment being recalled is a mental image picture.
The purpose of Dianetics is to help a person become more at cause over their image pictures. Its actions help people remember positive moments. Its processes help a person examine past difficult past moments. Commonly, people who practice Dianetics attest to better memory. Eventually, practitioners say, a memory is viewed much as a photograph is looked at. The mental picture has color and other information. The term "mental image picture" is used because an image of a past event appears to a person much like a photograph or painting. The difference between a mental picture and a real picture is that a person might remember a memory any time, and a memory picture has more information. Dianetics works with such recalls much as you would look at a photograph and describe its details.
L. Ron Hubbard introduced Dianetics to the public in 1950 in the book Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health. He characterized memory as being a series of mental image pictures, complete with all recorded details, literal copies of past experience, a full and complete record of what once existed for a person. The only difference being, it happened in the past. One of the actions that Hubbard took was to list all of the kinds of awareness, all of a person's perceptions such as sound, color, smell, touch, and so on. He compared that list with recalled perceptions. His conclusion was, a memory is an exact recording of all perceptions, in a past moment.
Some of the questions Dianetics address include:
- How can a person free their attention from a memory moment that is more persistent than is wanted?
- How can a person become aware of the details of a poorly recalled memory?
- Did remembered events actually happen as they are recalled, or does memory play tricks on us?
