Photographic memory? Options

[pandora]

Just for the record, your brain doesnt actually work like a computer. And photographic memory does not actually work like a camera.

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just to clarify. your brain does not take some kind of stupid snap shot of EVERYTHING you see. Photographic memory has to do with the way you read/analyze things. Anyone can develop photographic memory. Some people pick it up easier than others. In other words, most people are entirely in control of what they choose to "photographically" memorize.

[superstitious]

I didn't intend for it to be taken literally. It was very much a theoretical response. I even used "sort of" twice. XD

I'm saying that true eidetic memory could possibly drive someone to madness.

edit: and I even put "image" in quotes.

This is also something I've talked to psychologists about, especially when Iz was first diagnosed.

[transcendentalis...]

my bio teacher's son has photographic memory. she didn't even know until he was eight and asked her if she wanted him to read her a bedtime story while they were camping in the dark.

"you can't read, there aren't any lights."
"why would you need lights?"

[pandora]

oh lol i was just saying that photographic memory is like any skill. some people are naturally gifted, and some people can develop it.

[Gigi]

Although, once I saw an autistic man on television who had a memory as close to a photographic one as I could imagine. He could look at any scene or image for a few seconds and recreate it afterwards almost exactly without a reference, complete with fine details. It was absolutely bizarre.

[superstitious]

^ That's sort of how it was with my son. He'd see a pattern for what seemed like a few seconds, turn around and recreate the same pattern with blocks.

Yet didn't speak a word until he was 4 years old.

[Jennifer]

I sometimes do have a feeling that my memory is slightly photographic I guess. Like with the thing, the remembering where text is on a certain page etc. I get that quite a lot, if I can't remember something in a test I'll just try and picture the page and there it all is. I also have this weird 3 second video of memory from when I was 4, skipping around the corner to go to the milkbar with my mum. It's so weird, just a 3 second clip of a little skip and a hop around the corner holding my mumma's hand

[markmejia]

I sometimes do have a feeling that my memory is slightly photographic I guess. Like with the thing, the remembering where text is on a certain page etc. I get that quite a lot, if I can't remember something in a test I'll just try and picture the page and there it all is. I also have this weird 3 second video of memory from when I was 4, skipping around the corner to go to the milkbar with my mum. It's so weird, just a 3 second clip of a little skip and a hop around the corner holding my mumma's hand

I know what you mean by those "3 second videos." I do have a lot of those.

[Gryffindor-Girl]

I don't think I do. But allot of other people who know me think I do they say I remember events and what they where doing at the time very well. Also that I even remember what they where wearing. But sometimes I just think they are full of it.

[melodyus]

i think everyone has some type of photographic memory but some have it more than others. like i know for a fact that a lot of my friends are just really good at memorizing anything & everything. but for me i actually can look at a piece of music and not necessarily remember the notes but remember what the notes looked like on the piece of paper.

[freeridefight]

I believe I have it. When I was in elementary school, that was how I did so well on spelling tests.