Photographic Memory
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Similar to me, for things like history at school while I could write an essay at length on the spot about anything I'd read about in terms of what and how it happened, dates just don't seem to gel into those memory's. American Civil war or something, i could tell you what happened start to finish in intricate detail(well I could/did back then) but ask me when it started, when the important key dates of key battles where and theres just nothing there.
I'm similar with names, which is a pain at uni, especially as my "name memory" gets even worse when drunk and thats when you meet most new people
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Stupid statement, right up there with some of your best.
It's probably theoretically possible to learn all the material within that time, however absorbing material and proper assimilation of knowledge; what to do with all these facts is an entirely different thing.
I'm similar with names, which is a pain at uni, especially as my "name memory" gets even worse when drunk and thats when you meet most new people
Don't even get me started on that.
It's worse or me since I've an usual name; I have to repeat it all the time to people I meet therefore they remember it easily. When they're called John, Kate, Hannah, Dave etc.,...in one ear and out the other. :/
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I don't think it works that way
Just because you can remember something doesn't mean you can understand it and then apply that knowledge to differening situations
yup, reading the info and being able to recall the words doesn't equate to understanding, nor to the linking of information in the brain which is where the important things happen.
So you're in a ER and someone tells you the potassium is low, you'd know all about potassium, and a bunch of problems that could cause it, but you couldn't link low potassium, high heart rate, this that and the other together because those links you estalish through proper learning and understanding.
I mean imagine you have all those books you read in the ER with you, someone says low potassium, you could look through every book, look up every potassium reference and read them, thats all photographic memory allows you, understanding, interpreting, linking idea's/thoughts together to come up with an idea of whats wrong and treatment, thats an ENTIRELY different ballgame.
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once apon a time I think I had something close.
Now, I think I burnt up way too many brain cells.
Now, I think I burnt up way too many brain cells.
I have a memory for passwords and numbers. I know every password I have ever used on any PC (20+) I know all the passwords for the past 5 years at the school I work at, plus my colleagues and teachers (30+) and I know credit card and debit card details for my accounts along with about 15 phone numbers off the top of my head.
I assume this is more repeated use of the words/numbers rather than "Photographic" memory.
I assume this is more repeated use of the words/numbers rather than "Photographic" memory.
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Best magick post ever imo.
What do you do for work magick, out of interest? I mean, if you're that great, I hope you're doing something to make the most of your talents!
I have the (some say unnerving) ability to remember the number plates of familiar cars. For instance, I know the numbers of all my friends cars, and in most cases, all of their previous cars. It's not exactly photographic, I just tend to look at a car, see its numberplate, and associate that plate with whoever owns the car.
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i think i have a selective memory, i jus remember stuff i need to when i need it, like i didnt use any of my online banking for about 6 months since i was without internet, then when i got internet back, remembered all my passcodes an numbers etc. also for my exams i'd read the question then the answer would pop into my head
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I have a pornographic memory ....takes the bank to a whole other level 
Em he's saying he thinks he could do those things with a photographic memory not that he could do them now :/
I wasn't aware that 'photograph' meant being able to visualise anything. I thought that it was the ability to recall something with perfect detail, regardless of what that information was.
An equivilent would be for me to quote tj7451 to you once in a scenario whereby you never have to recall it again, and for you to be able to remember it 3 years later.
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The only thing I can remember is my name.
I worked with someone who had a photographic memory (for some time before I realised.. I wondered why people kept calling him poleroid perkins), I never seemed much smarter than anyone else, like someone else said there is a difference between remembering facts and applying them... still i wish i could do it..
I reckon you should be able to teach yourself photographic memory using some simple techniques of recalling pictures, words, etc. I doubt its a genetic quality to have photographic memory. From my extensive research (wikipedia), memory is not fully understood on a physiological basis. No one has been able to reverse engineer 'memory', or the brain for that matter.
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That's what I thought, but I was hoping he was doing something useful with it in the meantime!
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I think I have a photographic memory. Whenever I think about things I tend to visualise them in my head. Most of my memories I recall as pictures. I'm absolutely useless at maths, becuase I have a hard time visualising the numbers in my head. I'm mechanically minded and can take things apart and put them back together again quite easily.