How many people here have an eidetic memory?

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20 Feb 2018, 4:34 pm

How many people here have a photographic memory?

It must be great to have one. I wish I had one.



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20 Feb 2018, 4:36 pm

I don't, and I'm glad I don't. Read "Funes the Memorious" by Jorge Luis Borges.



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20 Feb 2018, 4:42 pm

Is it because of the information overload?



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20 Feb 2018, 6:03 pm

I do. It's not super useful, but it does help me avoid face blindness.

This sounds interesting, though not all of it applies to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia


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21 Feb 2018, 9:01 am

I do though most times I wish I did not. I have a bad habit of rehashing old experiences and things that made me uncomfortable, not great when you remember those things for the rest of your life. I am still face blind though but that works in a different way to normal recollection it seems.


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21 Feb 2018, 9:56 am

Pretty close, but I feel like I can't always access it voluntarily. Like I need a prompt and then my mind is flooded with everything I know about whatever.



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22 Feb 2018, 5:51 am

Yes... and it can feel like almost a curse at times, along with hyperthymesia of my own life.



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22 Feb 2018, 6:18 am

I had both a photographic and auditory eidetic memory up until I had a traumatic brain injury. I also had synesthesia and that's gone too. I miss it.


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22 Feb 2018, 10:31 am

I have a decent memory---especially for past events. But not "eidetic."



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22 Feb 2018, 10:50 am

I feel like I have a *mild* eidetic memory, but perhaps my ADHD gets in the way.

I can script very well. If someone tells me something, no matter how long it is, I can repeat it right back to them. However, I often don't understand what they've said!

This was actually very helpful when I got my first real job. During the training, we had to watch videos on the history of the food (it was a restaurant) and were then asked verbal questions. I was able to recite passages from the videos easily!

Also, during educational testing, I was asked to recite numbers back to the tester. Then, numbers and letters. Then, numbers backwards, letters in alphabetical order, etc. Later that year, I was given the same test and I still remembered the numbers and letters!

So odd.

I would almost categorize it as non-functional eidetic memory, as it doesn't help me much in everyday life, but it is a weird little trick.


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22 Feb 2018, 11:26 am

I forgot what I was going to post about this.



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22 Feb 2018, 12:05 pm

bunnyb wrote:
I had both a photographic and auditory eidetic memory up until I had a traumatic brain injury. I also had synesthesia and that's gone too. I miss it.

Ouch! I am sorry about that. I miss my synesthesia, too. Research shows that it fades later in life. But, having just four triggers (the letters B, D, L and the numeral 2), and a few resulting qualia (Grapheme-color synesthesia, Chromesthesia, Auditory-tactile synesthesia and Misophonia), my synesthesia is apparently rare according to some researchers. In other words, my synesthesia packed a lot into one consistent experience.

My memory, however, is still humming along fine. I reexperience memories as movies. So, conversations end up reappearing in the same sequence. I can walk around in the scene and see it from different angles. The only drawback is when someone is reading or discussing written words on a sheet of paper or from a book, I can't see the words because I didn't seem them in the original experience. This kind of memory is useful to me even decades later. It helps me remember the other individuals in my memories.


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22 Feb 2018, 2:02 pm

I have the opposite. I have the worst memory ever. I have exceptional facial recognition though.