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.