Interesting article I wanted to share. Wish I had that kind of super memory!
What if you finished reading this article and remembered every detail of it for the rest of your life? That’s the problem people with super-autobiographical memory face—and yes, it’s often referred to as a problem, not a gift. Their minds are like a computer hard drive that retains everything: dates, middle names, license plate numbers, even what they eat for lunch on a daily basis There are only four confirmed super memory cases, a disorder experts say is somewhat related to OCD, though no doubt there are plenty others who haven’t been identified yet.
So who are the four individuals who’ve all recently been the subject of a study at the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California, Irvine.? Let’s meet them and find out…
Wow, that really is a two edged sword. I would have loved that ability in school during exam time, but I think it is quite merciful of our brains to forget certain things-the pain of a break up or what childbirth feels like, for instance.
I could not imagine remembering every single thing. What if one of them has a traumatic event, they would constantly relieve it? This is so interesting; hopefully they can release more information over time about this. I bet there are a few more people with this ability, but they don’t come forward because they don’t understand why they are that way.
Four people with extremely rare mental power
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