Photographic Memory

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Does anyone here have a photographic memory?

I was thinking earlier today about how much eaiser life would be if you had a photographic memory. Is it possible to develop one?
 
One of my friends has a photographic memory - he remembered my email address 3 years after he once used it (it consists of 2 letters and 4 numbers).
 
I know someone who can listen to a piece of music once and then play it again perfectly without looking at music sheets, he can draw really well as well + his family is quite wealthy, used to be so jealous of him at school
 
I think I do, I tend to remember things more in video than a picture, which I think is referred to as Eidetic memory. I have several phone numbers + credit card details in my head, and when someone tells me their phone number I can bounce it back to them straight away.
 
chrisxuk said:
Would be good to have for exams :rolleyes:
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Well I finished uni over 10 years ago. But I was looking through a site with tons of ebooks to download and was thinking if I had a photogrpahic and only had to read them once to know all the knowledge in them, I could become a doctor, physicist, technican, architect in less than a month.
 
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Cyberstrike2027 said:
I think I do, I tend to remember things more in video than a picture, which I think is referred to as Eidetic memory. I have several phone numbers + credit card details in my head, and when someone tells me their phone number I can bounce it back to them straight away.
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Christ, i remember a time when i knew all my friends and familys numbers off the top of my head. Dont need to know them now, so that part of my brain died. Infact most of my brain has died because i dont need to remember spellings either. Dime bar?
 
Having a photographic memory is not something you can actually be born with. Some of us have a photographic memory and some of us do not. This is where the basis of evolution and generation genetic information come into play and the strength of our memories are dependent on these and maybe several other factors. But of course, there is no limit to this fact, as we can gain a photographic memory or something very close to it without too much of a struggle.

Yes, there are many programmes out there that help you to gain a photographic memory, but before you whip out your credit card and purchase a DVD or audio tape, you need to try your hand at some simple memory exercises you can do on your own in the comfort of where ever you are right now to improve your memory and give you an almost perfect one. Before all this, let us look at the causes of memory loss, and there are many things to dissect and bring across to the table. As the memory capacity of one person differs as you go from individual to individual, the different factors that do cause memory loss will have different degrees of effect, but they effect them nonetheless. One of these is hypertension.

Another is excessive alcoholism, which contributes to the brain cell deaths that would already be naturally occurring within the cortex and the neurons of the brain. People with thyroid problems would also be prone to memory loss as those who are prone to depression and emotional problems. One of the biggest and most common contributing factor of memory loss is stress, and all of us, at any one point of our lives, would feel the heavy hand of stress upon our backs and our minds, so we need to be wary.

Now, we can discuss some of the memory exercises you can perform in your free time so that your memory will improve as time goes by. One of them is mental focus, and this can be achieved by breathing exercises that allow you to reduce the heartbeat and focus the mind. Once you are able to achieve this on a daily basis, your memory and thought processes will improve. Yoga is a good way to do this.

The other way is called repetition, in which you repeat some of the things that you are most prone to forget to yourself and you increase this list on a daily basis. Another thing you can do is associations. Making mental associations and imagery to the aspects of your life that you always forget can be some of the mental exercises that will release your memory from the trenches of forgetfulness and give you a much more photographic memory. These are some of the mental exercises you can do which might give you the solution to a photographic memory. Practice them every day and you might find yourself at the top of the memory game in no time at all.

http://www.photographic-memory.org/memory-exercises-2/
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Looks like I may need to stop drinking then :(

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Though I do Yoga and breathing exercises which is very good for memory. According to above anyway
 
I can normally remember facts, but I can't remember dates at all.

Anything with a month, day, time or year in just goes in one ear and out the other. The only birthday I can remember is my own :/
 
I don't have a photographic memory but I have a knack of remembering things that I haven't tried to remember.

Things like if you show me a random object in my room, I'll probably be able to tell you when, where and how I bought it as well as who I was with/how much it cost/what I was wearing. Equally I'll remember postcodes weeks after of people/GPS places I've seen once and random things from day to day life.

I'm rubbish at revising for exams.
 
magick said:
I could become a doctor, physicist, technican, architect in less than a month.
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Not quite, there's a large gap between being able to recall information and actually understanding it or applying it to a real event.
 
Mate of mine does. He got an award from the Institute of Chemists for getting the highest ever A-Level Chemistry result (although since they get easier each year that's probably a regular occurance).
 
magick said:
Well I finished uni over 10 years ago. But I was looking through a site with tons of ebooks to download and was thinking if I had a photogrpahic and only had to read them once to know all the knowledge in them, I could become a doctor, physicist, technican, architect in less than a month.
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I don't think it works that way:p

Just because you can remember something doesn't mean you can understand it and then apply that knowledge to differening situations :)
 
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