# Photoreading, The Einstein Factor? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Memory Chat\ **Created:** [May 8, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/photoreading-the-einstein-factor/50562 "2020-05-08T18:50:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![AttiLa-24](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/attila-24/32/30822_2.png) [@AttiLa-24](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/AttiLa-24)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/photoreading-the-einstein-factor/50562/11 "2021-04-10T02:14:05Z")
> [@Test for Aphantasia \[POLL\]](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/test-for-aphantasia-poll/47569/30): > > I`m a fan of Nikola Tesla. And when I read his diaries. I was surprised that Tesla did not have exceptional visualization abilities as a child. He started visualization training in age of 16, because it helped him get rid of the flashbacks that haunted him after his brother’s death. He just looked at objects and then tried to recreate them with his eyes closed. When the items run out. He started doing mental journeys. As Tesla recalled: “At first everything was very blurry. It seemed to be p… Nikola Tesla did it to save himself from flashbacks and created the most complete method of imagery training. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/photoreading-the-einstein-factor/50562)._