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How do I know how detailed you are experiencing a mental picture? Can you imagine a detailed map and follow a street from one place to another in precise detail? Or is it an approximation


Yes, it's pretty accurate. Interestingly, this can be used as a memory technique, the method of loci, also known as the memory palace. You imagine a path such as from your house to the grocery store, and you place items on that path to remember them. For example, a large fish cresting out of the sidewalk might remind you to buy fish at the grocer.




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