People who remember every second of their life - Total recall: People who remember every second of their life - Total recall Imagine being able to remember every minute detail of your...

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

People who remember every second of their life - Total recall

Imagine being able to remember every minute detail of your life. You can recall what the weather was like, what you were reading or what you wore to the shops at any minute, any hour or any day stretching back decades. It sounds like some kind of parlour trick, but it's actually a real and very rare medical phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpTCZ-hO6iI

woodguru

I had a friend in 7th grade that had a true photographic memory, he could look at a list of 20 locker numbers and their combinations, see it once and go open 20 lockers days or weeks later. People used to put locker numbers and combinations on their book covers, if he saw a list he had access to the lockers, it was that simple.

I have often wondered what became of him, what he does for a living. A memory like that is the ticket for extreme computer software skills.

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

woodguru wrote:

I had a friend in 7th grade that had a true photographic memory, he could look at a list of 20 locker numbers and their combinations, see it once and go open 20 lockers days or weeks later. People used to put locker numbers and combinations on their book covers, if he saw a list he had access to the lockers, it was that simple.

I have often wondered what became of him, what he does for a living. A memory like that is the ticket for extreme computer software skills.

My guess is that he was recruited into one of the security agencies.

woodguru

ACP45 wrote:

My guess is that he was recruited into one of the security agencies.

You may be exactly right, people with talents like this got scholarships to Ivy League schools and were often picked up by intelligence agencies.

Liberty Tree

woodguru wrote:

I had a friend in 7th grade that had a true photographic memory, he could look at a list of 20 locker numbers and their combinations, see it once and go open 20 lockers days or weeks later. People used to put locker numbers and combinations on their book covers, if he saw a list he had access to the lockers, it was that simple.

I have often wondered what became of him, what he does for a living. A memory like that is the ticket for extreme computer software skills.

Probably doing 20 years for safe cracking.

woodguru

Liberty Tree wrote:

Probably doing 20 years for safe cracking.

I was thinking high level hacking, whereupon the NSA picked him up so that they can have the best hackers in the world.

bahmer

Oldsailor65 wrote:

People who remember every second of their life - Total recall

Imagine being able to remember every minute detail of your life. You can recall what the weather was like, what you were reading or what you wore to the shops at any minute, any hour or any day stretching back decades. It sounds like some kind of parlour trick, but it's actually a real and very rare medical phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpTCZ-hO6iI

WOW that is awesome boy now where did I put my glasses?

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Oldsailor65 wrote:

People who remember every second of their life - Total recall

Imagine being able to remember every minute detail of your life. You can recall what the weather was like, what you were reading or what you wore to the shops at any minute, any hour or any day stretching back decades. It sounds like some kind of parlour trick, but it's actually a real and very rare medical phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpTCZ-hO6iI

They could clean up in Vegas!!

bahmer

nwtk2007 wrote:

They could clean up in Vegas!!

Only if vegas was using a system where they were repetitive and the person could recognize the repetition and then bet ahead accordingly.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

bahmer wrote:

Only if vegas was using a system where they were repetitive and the person could recognize the repetition and then bet ahead accordingly.

They could also remember what's been played as well. A great asset to determining the the chances the next card is a face card or no!

bahmer

nwtk2007 wrote:

They could also remember what's been played as well. A great asset to determining the the chances the next card is a face card or no!

True forgot about that not being a gambler and all.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

bahmer wrote:

True forgot about that not being a gambler and all.

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See their---you forgot already!

pafret Loc: Northeast

bahmer wrote:

WOW that is awesome boy now where did I put my glasses?

That is not so great. My memory is even better, I regularly remember stuff that never happened,
At least not as I remember it.

Rebecca E

I had a friend in high that could look at a person and draw that person like it was a photograph. She graduated at 15. She then had a true true photographic memory; majored in music in college, now teaches at that college now, and has 4 bachelor degrees: Business, Mathematics, Graphics, and Music.

bahmer

Rebecca E wrote:

I had a friend in high that could look at a person and draw that person like it was a photograph. She graduated at 15. She then had a true true photographic memory; majored in music in college, now teaches at that college now, and has 4 bachelor degrees: Business, Mathematics, Graphics, and Music.

Good for her the rest of just sit and marvel at that kind of memory.