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Is Photographic Memory Actually a Thing
Published 11 Jun 2021
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my ex wife has one. It helped her win two university medals. Not only could she memorise pages of text, diagrams, spreadsheets
i began to lose the ability later in college. Though the file cabinet remains to this day, i find i can' t recall images nearly as well as i used to as a teen. Health issues affecting my cognitive abilities likely affect it as well)
even now, while i still remember extremely clearly the characters, the notebooks i used, the locations where i learned which character and almost every conversation i had with anyone about those characters, i still have very hazy memories from that whole period of time other than things directly related to those characters. Even when someone describes to me in detail the events i was present, and even seeing photos, i have only the vaguest memory of having been there
once i actively stopped mass memorizations, my episodic memory slowly returned, but never to full strength, and now 15 years later, i still have a lot of trouble with it. However, memorizing and recalling specific information comes to me very easily even now, even if i didn' t think i had paid too much attention to it and was exposed to the information only once.
sadly it doesn' t work with images at all, and i have found out that also my ability to remember and conjure images for drawing has actually deteriorated since then
my photographic memory says so. 38
synesthesia" where i feel the same physical sensations thatelse feels when i touch them. It' s a weird thing i mostly don' t tell people about (never told people about, until i learned it was an actual condition) because it sounds crazy to someone else when you tell them about it. It works on anything that is alive and feels from a bug to a cat to especially people. It mostly works only when using my hands and can go through clothing and such up to a point. I feel both good and bad sensations and it happens(i don' t go around punching people) the condition has been mainly a good thing, but i have been diagnosed with add/adhd and have trouble with maths like many others with this condition. I am excellent at giving a massage (you can imagine where that goes) and can even tell where someone is hurting and generally why by touching them near the area causing pain. Unfortunately, i have suffered a bit of a loss of my ability in my dominant hand after getting frostbite from an especially wet and cold bicycle ride without proper gloves. It still works, just not as well. Cheers!
me: yesn' t. 25
my dad has always tried to make people think that he' s got graphic memory but he uses pnemotechnia and is in general full of bs.
i' m autistic and time doesn' t seem to pass but i don' t have anything resembling graphic memory. It' s just easy to remember a lot of things, useful and not. Some painful things and regular events remain fresh, it can be too much emotionally. And some very painful and shocking things i forget immediately unless i write them down. Up until i was like 10 i found it really odd that other people didn' t have clear memories from when they were infants.
i have executive and propioception disorders. As well as directional dyslexia and situational mutism. Funnily enough i can copy body movements in physical sports and crafts accurately without trying, but don' t ask me to react quickly because it' s not gonna happen
i' ve been intending to get one but when i go to the mall, i forget about it. 6
next 2 weeks aw yeah. 99
i wasn' t a straight a student though. I was really bad at long term projects like term papers and book reports. Huge procrastinator and a very slow reader because every word had so much information in it. My main weakness though was. And still is. If i can' t read or write down the information when i first learn it, then i can' t hold on to it. I need to see it so i can see the people and colors. Anything said verbally to me like a person' s name goes in one ear and right out the other instantly unless they have a name tag on or if i can write it down in the air with my finger (i learned that trick much later in life) also i have zero talent when it comes to music. Idk how anybody does it, it looks like absolute magic to me. I don' t understand scales or notes and i actually don' t listen to music because it' s sometimes overwhelming to hear more than a song or two in a row. Overall math, science, art, and language classes were easy and i excelled in them (applied concepts, puzzles, equations, facts, reproducing what you saw, rote memorization, tests, and quizzes: chef' s kiss: but english, history, and music were harder or impossible for the latter (lots and lots of reading, interpretation in long winded essays, verbal discussions about topics with no real right answer, long term projects: hiss: sound? What is that even. Where are the people? There is some color but it' s somehow faint and at the same time also overly bright. Like colored lights instead of paint like numbers and letters are. It' s also somehow overwhelming and reverberating in my head too that sometimes becomes painful) hmm i never was able to describe it so well. Yes! Words and numbers are like a painting to me, colors and people depicting a scene. Songs are like being in an empty room with a colored strobe light flashing in your face, even though some can be pretty you could only take lights flashing in your eyes for so long before you wanted out.
this was all before i knew that synesthesia had a word to it, i didn' t find out until college that there were others like me. Also i' m sure other things are going on in there beside synesthesia but that' s a topic for another day
im glad that you cut so much to speed your videos up to make it less like a real experience of information. 1
some just dont have any films.
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it was a curse i felt like i was going insane because it started to fade in my late 30' s, color video became black and white, then i could only remember color pictures that turned to black and white pictures. I got to a point that i was forgetting things i had just done. I am not sure why but i did have an accident in 2006 where the doctors gave me very strong drugs that made my life worse. I had surgery to fix my problems last year and my memory has improved but my memory is no where near what is used to be.
yes it was great not forgetting anything but when i was young i believed everyone was like me and wondered how people did not go insane, i always said to myself " these people have more restraint that me so if they can do it i have to
of course still image moments are easier, but not the words on a page.
sound memory is useful too, and i use the sound memory of a saying or phrase to do accents for languages, or to do voice/sound impressions, or just to remember how someone said something.
definitely the mind palace thing makes sense, sort of, but not as a house. I tend to think the theory of a thing is a tree and the empirical examples are the ornaments on the tree. Or leaves and fruit. Whatever makes sense.
lectures are more of a joy without note taking, just a brief distillation at the end.
yes, it' s hard for me to forget most images, especially harsh ones, but i' ve learned to not think about them.
but i' m fine with people and very coordinated, except perhaps the time i almost stuck my foot through a manky chair, stepping onto it from another chair. I chose to fall on the floor hard rather than breaking my leg. Good balance, friendly and very modest. Yes sir.
nice at parties. Everyone loves to talk about the latest scientific papers at parties.
actually it' s fun to be able to talk about any field or thing people are interested it.
anywhoo, i know actual totally photographic or eidetic memory isn' t real, like i can' t look at a book and then repeat the whole thing forever. Maybe draw the pictures though without looking, and describe the concepts with examples.
but don' t other people recall their lives like movies or can' t other people recall images or pictures from their lives? Musicians must remember whole songs, and lots of them, right? That seems standard.
maybe it depends on how you define eidetic memory? Too overarchingly defined might abrogate the concept, no? Perhaps memory of most visual or auditory experience, not all, is what is being described by others as photographic or eidetic. Idk
another part of the recovery was recognising that i could suddenly do math/science that i certainly neverany interest or skill in before. I mention that because that underlyingskill set' feels like what has made the eidetic aspects possible. Sort of like, once you learn the alphabet, you can write any word you hear, even if you don' t know the word itself.
i' m probably explaining this poorly, but i know that at least some aspects of eidetic memory areit doesn' t looklike what people expect it to be. I' m excited for neurological research to catch up with the evidence
i was constantly absent, but i maintained a 90 percent average.
i didnt learn mnemonic devices; i could see the pages in my minds eye
as for episodic memory, i can recall many conversations and events in reasonable detail, but i often need another participant to prompt me, or some event to trigger the memory. I cant always recall from a casual reference to it. This has been an issue in numerous relationships, when someone asks, do you remember when we talked about x, or when y happened, i often need them to prompt me with additional information before i can access the memory. Also, its certainly not all events and conversations, there are numerous times where there is strong evidence of me being at some event, and yet i cant recall it at all
a great book with a character who has synesthesia is called a mango-shaped spaceby wendy mass. I read it to my son and we both enjoyed it. pi in the skyis another book by this author that we love
as always. Thank you sir.
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he would also run equipment tests turning switches and taking proper readings in the correct order. He would do this while flipping pages of the manual without reading it.
several times qa stopped him and questioned him. Each time he correctly identified what test step he was on, what it was testing, and where on the page the step was print at. He could also tell you what circuits the test was checking and what page the diagram could be found on in another book.
he was a great instructor and tester. But you give him a screw driver it was a 50/50 chance whither he would fix it or break it worse
if photographic memory doesn' t exist, how did he do that?
sadly, she and her family moved away when i was about 11. In my mind' s eye, i can still see my father, speaking with her on the phone, telling her to come on over. The call had been her, asking whether my father had a road map of the us. As befitting any good truck driver, he did, indeed, and by the time she arrived, some fifteen minutes later, he had the thing spread out across the kitchen table. I still get chills when i watch her study that map, memorizing the highways they' d take, from california to new york. She stood at that table for one minute, tops. No lie, no exaggeration. One minute or less, and she was good to go. Simply fascinating!
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