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Is Photographic Memory Actually a Thing
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- "Well, not that I can remember." 111
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)
When I started to seriously study the Japanese Kanji Characters, I was learning and using various memory techniques to upload enormous amounts of new type of information in my memory. What I had not expected however, is that my grasp of everyday events deteriorated immensely during that time, and I couldn't remember even the events of that or the previous day well, and I was living almost like in a daze.
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
"mirror-touch synesthesia",
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Very interesting video!
My grandpa had insane good memory but it wasn't like hers. He just liked reading the same non-fiction books over and over, reciting facts and analising historical and political events. He was passionate about such things.
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 “Awww yeah” 99
I could sort of do the same thing with my notebook. I either would never have to study for a test or would only have to study once for. a couple of minutes?, 10 to 30min max, just enough to flip through the pages and memorize the colors and the scenes that were playing out with the interactions of the letters and on each page. It made it so I would ace every quiz and test easily cuz every test was an open book test. I knew which page on my notebook the answer was on so I would just flip to that page in my head and see what colors I saw. I would sound it out and/or watch the scene unfold. If ANYTHING was multiple choice the right answer was the only one in remotely the right color order. I mean I still had to pay attention in class to understand the logic behind the topic at hand like in math or science and I had to take good notes but once I wrote it down it was like writing it in my head.
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.
I’m glad that you cut so much to speed your videos up to make it less like a real experience of information. 1
Some just don’t have any films….
Time to update that joke 87
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.
I can pretty much remember any moment of my life like a movie and always have been able to do so, though it's easier to do that with more recent events. Past events fade a bit and it takes more work to look around a past scene. But it's still possible to a certain degree, even back to a young age.
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 never learned/studied/had any interest or skill in before. I mention that because that underlying 'structural skill 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 are possible--though it doesn't look 'exactly' like what people expect it to be. I'm excited for neurological research to catch up with the evidence.
It served me very well in school, because I simply didn’t have to study, to memorize and then understand whatever I read.
I was constantly absent, but I maintained a 90 percent average.
I didn’t learn mnemonic devices; I could see the pages in my minds eye.
And let me tell you, women love no eye contact and being able to recite everything they just said when they think you aren't listening back at them.
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 can’t 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, it’s certainly not all events and conversations, there are numerous times where there is strong evidence of me being at some event, and yet I can’t recall it at all.
I think that having a good memory is more about having good recall. I know the info is in there but just can't get it to the surface or it comes in fits and spurts not recalling all the info at once. Sucks for telling jokes!
I look for patterns everywhere, in numbers and letters and shapes. I could probably come up with colors to go with numbers but I don’t initially “see” the colors.
A great book with a character who has synesthesia is called A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass. I read it to my son and we both enjoyed it. Pi in The Sky is another book by this author that we love. ....وسعت
Oh, and I also have synesthesia but it's also completely useless
After that is nostalgic memory, where I can tell you whether something is familiar or not familiar. It helps if I use the same tactics for research because even the keystrokes and keywords become nostalgic and I recall memories from previous searches. The same goes for spoken and heard words. So there is procedural memory or muscle memory as well.
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He could also explain what any of the technical paragraphs meant.
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?
This ability has become slightly less reliable over the years.
There was another trick she had, in which my sister and I would each pick out a particular car, on the drive to the local shopping mall, and memorize its license plate number. Once at the mall, we would describe the car to her (model, color, etc) and she would recite that car's license plate number. It really was impressive, until I asked her about the yellow Corvette we passed, on the freeway. "Which one?" she asked, "There were two." And then she proceeded to recite the plate numbers for both cars. I, of course, only recognized one of them.
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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