Your mind records pictures of everything you experience throughout life. These pictures, called “mental image pictures” in Dianetics, are your memory.

Through mental image pictures you can remember the past, hear what was said, feel, taste and smell things from long ago or from just yesterday.

You use these pictures to remember and imagine things, and you continually use the experience contained in them to solve the problems you encounter on a day-to-day basis. When confronted with a situation, your mind analyzes the data contained in your mental image pictures to form the best solution. This is called the analytical mind.



Your mind is capable of recording 25 mental image pictures a second, equaling 1500 a minute. All of these pictures are accessible as memories.

Yet, if they exist, why do so many people have trouble remembering their first birthday, their first step or even a fishing trip 20 years ago?

What is blocking your mind’s full potential?