Eidetic Images can be scanned like movies.
In Hawaii, when I was on my surfboard of Waikiki, when I should have been chasing insects in Manoa, I would spend six hours straight watching the waves come in.
When I finally went home and was sitting in the vets dormitory, the whole panorama of the waves would appear automatically before my eyes. I could see the waves come and break and I could scan them from right to left.
Obviously, this is an aid to perception and memory. Again, children are found to have strong eidetic imagery ability (see the notes).
This is why re-reading books and telling stories many times to children is so beneficial. The sentences of the stories are replayed through eidetic imagery in children’s minds frequently throughout the day. How do we know?
NOTES: More on Eidetic Imagery