I want a 'photographic memory'

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That's it really, that's all I wanted to say...

I haz videographic memory

I have a pornographic memory

I have a photographic memory its nice especially when you start remembering months worth of memories in a matter of minutes its a feeling of pure ecstasy well it is for me at least.

I don't know if I would want to have it. I mean, it would be nice for good things and studying, but also think about how vivid any bad memories or nightmares would be. Sometimes the mind just needs to forget stuff.

QFT.

I have a photographic memory (not eidetic -- I'm not a walking camcorder) and while it's extremely useful, there are things that I don't want to remember but can't get rid of.

Then there's the annoying stuff like the photo of the extremely fat naked guy that was posted on this site once (the one where he was sitting in front of a computer and you couldn't see the chair). Who needs that image stuck in their head?

EWWWW! Not a good image, I would never want to see that.
What does eidetic mean?
Once I accidentally saw a picture of a pre-op transsexual (I have nothing against them, it's just really weird seeing male genitals on a girl's body. I definitely prefer post-op...) masturbating...I haven't forgotten it, even though I reallyreallyreally want to! Stupid pop-ups...thankfully I fixed it so I don't have to be tortured with images like that again.

I think that pic needs to be posted at the random thread

Wikipedia's definition describes an eidetic memory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory.

I don't agree with photographic memory being used as a synonym for eidetic memory, and you'll note that it has been suggested that the article be split into separate entries for the two types of memory.

The definition I've heard for a photographic memory is an above average recall (but not total recall) that is visually based.

I have a photographic memory, but I keep leaving the lens cap on...

I just read that article and it's very interesting. I think I am somewhere in between a normal memory and a a eidetic one because I remember things visually and usually with more detail than most people remember things but yet it's not usually 100% perfect, either.

I found that the more your ability of instant and long-term accurate memorisation moves away from a regular memory and comes closer to what's commonly called 'perfect memory', the less able you are to participate in society.

Really? Very interesting bit of info, thanks.

I am a walking camcorder.
(sigh of horribly deep passionate filled pain; long pause at keyboard)...
less than 10 days ago, I thought everyone had same kind of memory only some where lazy thinkers.
(another pause)
Yes, eidetic, instant recall on purpose, and then also, when ever and whatever it feels like.

...ask questions get pictures, then some pictures cause involuntary recall of another, here they call it a meltdown, it is to me an avalanche of pictures cascading like a dump truck emptying its contents, and in conversation i am sorting through the barrage, pulling pictures aside to talk about, if interrupted in conversation I could loose complete track of conversation for another barrage of information, so I talk really fast, and am very animated trying my best to communicate huge amounts of info quickly, I have heard some say when asking me a question its like, taking a drink from a fire hose. One said that after an hour with me talking shop, he was so informed that he felt exhausted like he had a week seminar.

there is handicaps of course...
Question: Describe lunch with a friend...
In my head (luckily) i have only a few friends that I have had lunch with, 3 associates pop in mind, with each is a different place and we had more than one lunch together, I now have (like standing infront of a wall of TV's at bestbuy) a collage of images, now I have to sift and sort to bring to surface ones that apply to question. If the question was more specific like with only one friend, I will still have an over lay, of seeing my friend setting at the table but now with 3 different meals in front of me, the whole room in perfect accuracy and clarity, except for the smorgasbord, and I couldn't tell you time interval or which lunch came first...

next complication, I am a visionary, I can, because of my extremely diversified hand skills, a craftsman of many trades, I can design anything that some one can ask a question to, or tell you the physical constraints, IE gravity, friction, heat transfer, and many other mathematical limitations, by using real life images and then kind of constructing a new image one that is imaginary, a composite of several real pictures. This is where we go into "surreal" for it is seamlessly real even though it has never been made yet like CGI in the mind and the only limitation is questions, and time...

My question now is...
NOW WHAT!

I have a photographic memory, and I remember everything that's happened to me, since I was 2.

If you are not naturally eidetic there is no method do become eidetic. However anyone can improve their memory by using a set of association techniques.

ruveyn