Eidetic images

Valdes -. ..plants and flowers. I think they were what people call eidetic images, cause I saw them when... 

On the Recollective-Analytic level, a large part of the phenomena are familiar ones in the literatures of psychoanalysis and hypnosis. The unconscious materials are unusually accessible, and the patient may recall or live through traumatic experiences from his early life. The events may be seen (eidetic images), or felt to be occurring, or vividly remembered. The patient, perhaps assisted by the therapist, can immediately review the recollection or age regression with an adult consciousness that interprets the events more appropriately than the child did. Even as the trauma is recalled or relived, a coexisting adult consciousness can draw mature conclusions. Even if abreaction does not occur, interpretation by the mature consciousness may still prove therapeutic. 

Here, eidetic images become of major importance as an... 

Those who have not experienced them find it difficult to understand what is meant by eidetic images. It is somewhat as if a technicolor motion picture were being projected inside one s own head, with the possibility that one may become an actor in the drama. The images are usually seen with the eyes closed, although sometimes they can be projected into a gazing crystal or upon a flat, blank surface. They are typically brilliantly illuminated and vividly colored, exceeding in... 

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