Photographic Memory

Who here knows all their credit card/debit card details off by heart?
I do, has actually come in handy a few times.

Forgot a card once and said to the shop "I know my details, I can type it into the machine" you know, the PIN ones. Didn't believe me, thought I was "hacking" it.

D:

I'm good with remembering numbers I think.. that's about it.
 
Having a photographic memory doesn't necessarily mean you remember everything you see, it just means you remember things as pictures. I do this, as does my boyfriend. It means that we can both just write things over a couple of times as revision for exams and then can imagine it written on the page later.
 
Vixen said:
Having a photographic memory doesn't necessarily mean you remember everything you see, it just means you remember things as pictures. I do this, as does my boyfriend. It means that we can both just write things over a couple of times as revision for exams and then can imagine it written on the page later.
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Was just about to post this :)

I guess the clue is in the name, but the term has come to mean somebody who can remember facts and pull them up at will. As I understand it, somebody with a truly "photographic" memory will at some point in their life have setup a trigger system in their brain which effectivly means they have easy and quick access to specific "snapshot" images that they have seen with their eyes. Though what may lead to this, i am unsure.

However, in the same way as having a well catalogued system of photographs doesnt mean you ncesserily know the content without having a specific look, having a photographic memory doesnt naturally make you a "genius".

What it does mean is that said person can probably recall facts and figures they have physically seen with much greater ease than the rest of us.

I used to have a friend with a photographic memory, he could glance at a page and then re-write the majority of the text back hours later, definately a useful tool for the UK education system, where the ability to copy from a text book from memory makes up a lot of our exam system!
 
Vita said:
My memory is kind of photographic. As In I remember being there and what/how everything was. I can even some how look at it in third person view. From different angles, kind of cool tbh.
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I've had this since I can remember! I thought everybody's memories were like this?:eek:

I can recall so many random places and events in full 3D. Like when we opened out N64 console over 10 years ago, I recall exactly what the room looked like, plants, furniture, etc...
 
for people interested, take a look at the book "how to develop a super power memory" i read it when i was like 14, then i realized i could just remember anything i wanted if i concentrated.
 
I can memorise more or less any numbers, be it phone, credit card, national insurance, building reference numbers etc.

But my best is car registration plates. All I need to do is look once at someone's plate and I've got it for life. People often test me on this.
 
I have a photographic memory, but I sometimes leave the lenscap on.

I use to be able to take a pack of cards, get someone to shuffle them, then I could memorise the order they were in. Can't do it now though
 
used to be able to read books very quickly as a young'un and be able to recite pretty much word for word hours/days later. Got 100% in a few exams at secondary school as I could visualise the answers from reading the text book. Still remember one or two weird things like all the kings and queens of england from 1066, my dad's car registration numbers through the ages (though not my own oddly) and one or two phone numbers of people I haven't rung for 20 odd years but mostly the ability has disappeared or been untrained.....:(
 
Would rather have perfect pitch than a photographic memory i think. Would prefer the ability to become invisible or stop time though...
 
I have a pretty good memory of what people say. If someone says it outloud chances are I can remember the exact conversation. Reading something is a different matter, have to keep going over and over.

In 4 years of going to uni lectures I think I used one or two pads of paper, went to every lecture and listened though!
 
RadoX said:
for people interested, take a look at the book "how to develop a super power memory" i read it when i was like 14, then i realized i could just remember anything i wanted if i concentrated.
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Thanks for the heads up, found a free pdf on the net.
 
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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Are you really trying to say that if you were allowed to take an eBook into an operating theatre, you could quite easily perform an operation - without any other training or study? "Don't worry love, I downloaded an eBook, you'll be fine!" Or design a Hadron Collider? Or design a bridge?

What sort of University did you go to where you could pass the finals simply by remembering what was in text books, without being able to adapt and apply it to real-world situations?

That, somehow, is even more ridiculous than any UFO/Conspiracy Theory threads you've started.

:)
 
My photographic memory covers the contents of my house. That is all.

Very functional if your housemate/brother steals your shizzle
 
I think I have a photographic memory - when I was away my brother said to look at something for a couple of s3econds then when I looked back at me asked me how many bars there were on a railing or how many stripes were painted on a pole - I got them all right, and with the pole one wasnt sure if there were 8 or 9 as the bottom bit was covered - things I hadn't thought about when I'd first looked at the scene.
 
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