This is glorious, I have been researching "photographic memory techniques" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Danvelyn Niyameron Magic - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my neighbour got cool results with it.
That funny camera,, but truth picture in the mind is real, but how much corruption is also using individuals for their gift's, reference ( underground Colorado CIA military) the use of the milk cartoon children of the past, sits n a mountain in Colorado
This is glorious, I've been looking for "semi eidetic memory" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Danvelyn Niyameron Magic - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my partner got excellent success with it.
@abcd3625 atleast I don't remember a sexual scene very long or atleast a horror scene or jumpscare isn't ingrained in my mind and i don't think i am even missing out, people have their own ways of living
I thought "Eidetic memory" was often used as shorthand for "really really good memory for details", like when people can accurately recall every scene of a movie they really like, for instance. Just a sense of "can learn things by heart easily".
Brit is the best presenter ever, I don't know how she does it but she could be talking about anything and I would listen to her for hours *_* Hey maybe do an episode on that? Why we enjoy listening to certain people or sth like this?
I'd guess we enjoy Brit as a presenter because she has a very attractive voice, she uses her body language to present topics in an active and expressive way, and to top it off she's cute.
I'd be interested in an episode about that, too. Some youtubers and podcasters I can listen to for hours and it's almost soothing, while some people I can only do 20 min at a time. The weird thing is, some of the people I like the most don't have conventionally "pretty" or melodic voices.
HDCybersun you just essentially said "we are attracted the someone's style because their style is attractive", not really advancing understanding here.
I was looking to see if there was a comment for this before I added mine. Her hand motions are perfect. 👍👍 not the point but subconsciously made the video even better
There are techniques, "memory palace" for instance, and mnemonics for another, to train your mind to do otherwise near impossible level memorizing. Some of the application (of course) depends on the particular individual aspiring to improve memory, while others depend more on the nature of what's being memorized. Chess-masters, for instance, not only have the ability to memorize the entirety of a chess board at a glance, but can generally keep up with an entire game on notations alone. They implicitly understand the grid-layout of the board, and the nomenclature for the pieces is a coded language of simplicity... It's still no less impressive, but it's not quite as incredible as a lot of people make it out to be. On the whole, I'd have to admit the ability to memorize the Lord of the Rings, in its entirety isn't so impressive unless you impose a time limit for the process. Then... probably anyone capable of reasonable reproduction in less than a year would be incredible... (as an example)... Savants are very real, as well, but don't envy them. Where they may excel greatly in one category (memory for example) they usually suffer a pretty hefty detriment somewhere else. Not all are entirely "crippled" in some mental fashion, but a lot of them tend to be... Finally, you'd likely be impressed with your own growth in the ability if you just put in the time and effort to start memorizing things. I knew a guy who was working at his memory just to maintain cognitive function for his later years (a theory in the 90's proven later)... He'd memorized practically everything about any Hanna Barbara and Warner cartoon ever released to the public. On top of that, he was a signalman (SM) in the Navy, so there were flags, colors and shapes codes, semaphore, and morse code to be learned and maintained... :o)
:o) Carlos... :o) Actually, some of us actually bothered to read the books of research and development on the matters of "memory palace" technique before Shear Luck Holmes ever came out with it... To be most particular (and relating to my earlier post) It really depends on the type of information I'm memorizing as to how the palace must be laid out, and that comes right down to the details of lifts or stairs... If you really wanted to know... Usually, for me at least, the more detailed the level of information must be when recalled, the more production there is to storing it or "getting there"... In the actual technique (and I have no idea what the hell Shearluck said) it's a method of visualization to map your memory using the spacial senses of your brain, along with the imagery center, and then the actual information's general sourcing. So you're renetworking the brain to enhance the circuitry devoted to that particular piece of information. Say I want to memorize a date, (Battle of New Orleans, 1814) In the simplest and rawest form, it's an alphanumeric (mix of text and numerals)... So simple is this, that upon a mental map of the 1800's wing, I can stick a little mural of battle at 1814, label as New Orleans, and done and done... :o) BUT there's a fair wealth of other details, if I wanted them, like the whole thing was related to the War of 1812, which was fought over "British Impressment" of anyone at sea who spoke English, and this was due to the Napoleonic Wars with a rising and eventually falling French Empire under Napoleon, so I could wrap a nice staircase around the bloody 1812 tower with all this and set the portraits related to Napoleon at the base, and bring up the fact that "Impressment" as an issue was resolved two months before the first shot was even fired in 1812.... Of course, being relatively eclectic in my musical tastes, I could just refer to Johnny Horton for the New Orleans date as well... So the joke (as it were) can be bounced to your proverbial end of the court. :o) And no texts, notes, or idle rifling through net-scapes needed for this... The whole text wall took about 1min 40 sec... :oP
@@thedarthcreeper9536 "If those facts are made up and racially biased, it's called being conservative." You misspelled Democrat there. Conservatives celebrate the achievements and policies of their candidates as opposed to (talking about "useless and unhelpful"!!) their skin colour or reproductive organs.
I think a "photographic memory," is often used as a synonym for a really good memory. Also, sometimes paring various sensory inputs can help memory. When I was in college, I would doodle a lot while in lectures, and when I took the test I would remember the answer with the lecture along with remembering the doodle. It's not like I had an image of the doodle in my head, but the sensory input of the imagery helped to remember details of what was discussed in the class when it came to test time.
There's a whole technique around that called memory palace, where you pair together different pieces of sensory information to strengthen your recall skills.
Mnemonic devices work along with that, too... I think a lot of "us" get easily impressed by "memory athletes" because we just don't practice enough. :o)
That's exactly what happened with me when I took tests! The doodles were in my notebook margins, so whenever I studied, I would kind of include them in my memorizing, I guess. It wasn't even on purpose, but I found it helped. And it also seemed like doodling in class helped me focus on/listen to the lecture better, so I didn't zone out..
I've always had a photographic memory of sorts. I used this to breeze through exams. I have the ability to pull up pages of notes in my head, almost like an open book exam, but in my head. Always worked best with my own handwritten notes, but was possible to a slightly lesser degree with textbooks. I only really use this ability still today to recall where I saw something so I can go back to it later or tell someone else where to find it.
Found the same! Closed my eyes and could recall entire paragraphs. Even now I can only learn peoples names by writing them down. Guess the act of writing helps further cement the memory along with the visual.
It's not a photographic memory then, it's just your ability to create images by piecing together already known details - not noticing new details from an image you saved in your brain
I wouldn't say I have a photographic memory, but I do have an incredibly accurate memory that feels almost like a video, or rather a continuously fluent memory that feels similar to how we feel when we are describing/narrating/retell our favorite scene in a movie, but with nearly everything.
I don't believe that a 100% photographic memory exists, but I am able to read over notes once or twice and then I can see them in my head while testing. I don't know what you would call that but it works that way with most things for me. If I see something then I usually remember it. If it is something awful then I don't really forget it and that image comes up when I see something related or hear something related. However, this also happens with good events as well. It is not 100% and some details are left out but it is something. For example on a final exam I was able to remember all of my notes except for 2 pages and one of them had an important equation on it so it wasn't an ideal situation but I could still see the majority of my notes. Again, I don't think that a 100% photographic memory exists where someone will have perfect recall but my memory isn't like the eidetic imagery either because it stays for much longer and I am able to bring up these images years later. I know my memory isn't 100% but it is like remembering things as pictures and videos that I can recall by looking at things related to it or thinking about those events. I wish I could forget somethings but I can't seem to figure out how because if they very positive or negative then it is like they get burned into my mind. Anyways, I hope my experience with my memory gives some insight into this topic. I encourage further discussion and questions down below :D
I had similar experiences. Images were not photographic in that I could only "see" bits of a page or image, but they were often vivid enough that I could reproduce salient parts arranged in the same way or re-read figures in my mind. I also couldn't count on my ability to do this. In a similar vein, I can often recite conversations verbatim, but have trouble recalling only parts of them. I do not believe I am a savant, though I'm pretty sure I'm an Aspie.
My great-grandad had a similar thing though he left school at 15. He could play rounds of cards and in order recall every card played and by who. I don't think it was exactly eidetic memory because he couldn't recall them hours later but it was still impressive. We never beat him in 500 :( Good memory has passed down through the family but with our generation growing up with the technology we have the reliance on basic memory for phone numbers etc has decreased and the neural pathway for storage is used less so overall ability to remember things vanishes.
same. It's not always perfect, but I get most general details. Yeah it does suck because I remember many bad memories still VERY vividly and can recall them. My husband finds it weird because it means I remember so much more than he does like almost everything.
I clicked on this video because I am convinced that chess grandmasters have photographic memory. The video is dismissive of the idea. But how does one explain being able to play 10 or more blindfold games of chess at the same time? So the comment section might be more illuminating.
My father told me that when he was in school he use to have the ability to look at an exam review, or any kind of paper, and he could memorize it word for word. Now I'm jealous.
I used to have that kind of ability, but I got a brain injury and afterwards I lost it I don't know if I have lost it due to my brain injury or is it just because I have grown in age?!
Very recently there has emerged a young boy from Nepal "Bijay Shahi" who can memorize 1000 pages of book IN ANY LANGUAGE in just frikin 10 mins. He needs 1 sec to memorise 1 page. Search him on youtube.
I can recall snapshots of buildings I haven't been in since I was 5 or 6 years old in good enough detail to describe the layout of the building as well as colors and shapes of different objects. Also if there are large fonts on things like banners I can recall the text if its one or two words but nothing extensive. If I try to recall pages in books its just a blurry black and white blob. So can you explain how I can recall images from 20 years ago but you say that eidetic memory only lasts a few seconds?
I had a biology teacher, who told me once that I am more prone to thinking in images. I do recall when taking a test I could see the layout of the page, the information I was thinking of was on, however I always had a hard time seeing text, it was always colours and shapes, and when having an oral presentation, when I was at a loss for words, I was always trying to grasp an image, trying to show it to my audience through my gestures. But I never thought that other people might have a different experience in their way of thinking. Like... is that actually a thing? that people's minds adapt to a different form of thinking, either (broadly said) in images or text? would be interesting to know
Not sure if this has a name other than Spatial Memory but as long as I remember where I was standing I can remember all of the details around me. I'll be able to recall tiny details in what happened, who walked by, and who said/did what. Basically as long as someone gives me a couple clues as to what memory they're referring to I can go back to it. Places I've spent countless hours in like my bedroom have the least effect with this though because of all of the similar memories or places I've stood in
Your shirt gave me a throwback to my days in elementary school when I used to look forward to playing the Oregon Trail game when my class had computer lab. That random death by dysentery ruined so many of my adventures!
People seem to get confused about this because of course we can recall images, I can see the album art to my favorite album in my head. But recalling visual information, and "photographic memory" are not the same thing. Photographic memory would be looking at a page of a book for a moment, closing the book, and THEN reading that page. Its all about absorbing the information after the fact...your eyes acting as cameras. But in reality...we have to first read the page to then remember it later. Some people can do this to an impressive degree...maybe they can recall that page 10 years later...but its still not photographic memory.
Photographic memory is old school, I want a full cinematic memory in Super HD 3D with THX certified sound. On a more serious note, this episode reminded me of the quote "If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.” from Civ V. a little googling found it is originally from Ian Stewart, The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
When I was studying for a test and read some pages over and over again to memorize them, I started looking at the whole page and tried to memotize how the page looked, how the pictures and text were arranged and stuff like that. When I got really nervous at the test, which I often do, I could technically "read" the text off of the page in my memory. Or at least a few words (or the shape of some words), which helped me remember the whole thing that was written there. I had to try really hard though. But that's the only thing that worked for me as I get extremely nervous during tests.
i could recall very specific pages and all the little details on a page of my textbooks in high school. now im 23 and i cant even remeber when i put my keys after i just opened my door
I had something similar to the eidetic imagery of sorts when I was younger... But it doesn't match up exactly. There were a fair number (significant number) of times where I could recall a whole page of text for instance, and use that word for word page to write an exam. But the perhaps not so odd part was that this was really common only for classes where I would read the textbooks or do the studies/revision very early (such as the grades 11 and 12 classes where I read the books and related online works over the summer prior to taking the course). Important to note is that the reason I said 'not so odd' in the previous sentence was because these classes and the material I remembered very well were my favourites. Therefore perhaps that fact and the situation where the specific memories were part of my long-term memory had helped.
At 4:07 you say that eidetic memory disappear when toughts become more abstract and linguistic. Do you have any reference study for that? Many people (including myself) would claim that learning the rules of some process kinda destroy the intuitive reasonning they could have had before. Like with the De Morgan's laws in logic or other areas of math. I wonder if that could be related to the effect that destroy eidetic memory.
Dose any one else remember thos kid chapter books where it was a girl who could just say "click" and she got the picture in her mind forever she was like 8 or something
In Star Trek - The Voyage Home, whale researcher Gillian, played by Catharina Hicks, can cite Spock word for word, after which she states that she has an eidetic memory.
I used to have eiditic memory when I was a kid. There's some bits that linger, but definitely not like it used to be. I always felt like it went away because as I got older life just got more complicated and I cared about more things so there was more for my brain to keep track of. When I was like 5 I had no responsibilities and just had to worry about not getting lost in the mall or fighting with my sister. When I got older, it was that, school, friends, coolness, homework, and everything that goes with that. My memory even now is pretty good and it was great when I graduated from college but it's not like it used to be. I might just be getting older, but I think it's more work stress. Deadlines, office politics, not wanting to fail or get fired and other stuff takes a toll on memory and I have a lot of work-related anxiety that's functional and helps me to do my best at my job but puts a lot of stress on me that messes with my memory.
@abcd3625 That might be so, but stress and mental illness also negatively affect memory too. Every human is a combination of any number of experiences so you can't actually test for this because you can't have an actual control group. If you try to do a study you can't control every person's experiences to ensure that you get the accurate results you want. Even someone who does have naturally good memory would have trouble performing if a loved one died and their mind is somewhere else. It just means it's difficult to study rather than it can't exist or is too rare because life is complicated. Same issue with most psychological studies. There's a lot of outside factors.
When I was a child I saw this (probably Disney) movie where someone slept with a tape recorder next to them that played the stuff they needed to know, when they awoke they retained the lesson they learned while asleep.
Can you do a video on aphantasia, pretty much the opposite of photographic memory? I am pretty sure I have I have it, and I'd be nice to see some research on it presented in your awesome format so that I can refer friends and family to it. A lot of them don't believe it's a thing.
i look at a street light led and when the light flashes on me it hurts me a little as it usually does when when i close my eyes i can see the led bulbs and can even count the no. of bulbs in a series and then they fade away after some time usually after blinking a lot, is it just with me??? plzzz
At high school my French teacher told the class she had a photographic memory. I'd never heard of such a thing. I tried mine but was sad to find I didn't have one. After that I gave up because I believed I could never compete. Years later, with Master's degrees and stuff, I realize that it's more about enjoying what you do, memory comes automatically with that as long as your brain is functioning right. The teacher's words were a hindrance to education.
My grandmother and mother have passed a paragraph of a book written by my great grandmother, through the daughters, but I had it passed down to me, is this a memory imprint or photographic memory?
i just wanted to note that i am not offended by the little square space blurbs at the beginning and end. as long as they aren't stuck in the middle of the science, i think a little ad like that is fine. i'm glad scishow is getting some sponsorship. just don't let it get out of hand.
I noticed that eidetic imagery is a very good description of what happens when I see a photo of a dinosaur (T Rex to be specific). I'm very very afraid of dinosaurs and when I see a picture of one and look away the picture is still there and doesn't go away it's honestly terrifying and I hate it but I've never experienced this phenomenon with any other image. Maybe fear is what triggers it? I'm not sure.
how about the ability to count objects after only brief look at them? Is that also part of savant syndrome or it's own thing? My friend can estimate the amount of things after a brief look, but notably he recalls the image in his head. Then (he says) he divides the objects in groups of equal size and counts them by multiplying. He can for example count flocks of birds flying, or in briefly shown image.
eidetik imaging is propably when you learn how to get your visual sensations to the 3D calculation part of your brain and send it through for a few rounds. I can do it but it needs a lot of concentration to keep it in the "3Dspace" of your brain and make it last longer
interesting. i remember reading comic books as a child and being able to remember what tile contains which text and describe it months after reading it. i always thought that ability fading away had to do something with me being rediculed for it :/
Food for thought: How do children who are deaf develop linguistic aptitude? You mentioned that children can have eidetic imagery, but that their development of linguistics may help cause it to dissipate. Are deaf children more likely to have eidetic memories, since they have loss of hearing? I am anosmic and know, as of almost 3 years ago, what it is like to lose a sense; however mine was acquired. This has created more of an interest in those who do not have at least one of the basic five senses. (Everyone needs to learn more about flavor vs taste more, as flavor is from the olfactory nerve AND NOT taste buds. I love this channel!
I've got that eidetic memory but it only lasts for like 30 seconds. So I look at an object, close my eyes, and then I can see it and recall what's in the image for a little while before it disappears. I should try prolonged rehearsal
good to know thx. I was always a bit down on myself because I didn't remember everything picture clear. I can pull up audio sounds perfectly though, and my visual memory is still amazingly good to the point I quote, combine, interpret, and combine information well enough to create very complex things/ideas. Most of my life I thought it was just how everyone could remember, and no one was ever interested in me enough to tell me other wise (partly because we moved about ever 6 months since I was born). Anyway, thx for letting me know its not even possible to get a photographic memory :-)
In Nepal there is a guy how can read upto 1000 pages any language books in just 10 minutes and can memorize all pages texts and can write whole book without any mistakes even little things like . , -/ with in a day like magic... using Photographic memory
Actually, a relative of mine used to be able to look at a page of text and remember it well enough to call it back up in her brain days later and read it out loud. For example, she managed to read the entire 3rd part of Tolkien's Lord of The Rings in two school days (albeit with all nighters) because she could only have the book out of the library for a limited time. When her friends wanted to know what happened, she simple read the book aloud to them- she didn't remember the specific words, but she could call up the image and read from there. She sadly doesn't have that ability anymore, as it disappeared with age, so no testing can be done.
After reading I can recall thought for though what i read, along with images (not well enough to reproduce it, but enough to be able to say what it was.), and even where in the book and page the information was. This ability always impresses people when I go looking for information, as I can flip through a book looking only at the exact spot where the information is. All I know is when I try to describe to anyone else what I have they say they wished they could do it too.
I can remember exact memories like pictures, or like I'm actually experiencing it from like 14 years ago.. when I was like 4. Since I was around 4 I've been able to do this, and I'm great at taking tests - I can remember the image of the notes or vocab by like pulling up the memory in my head like a picture. Like, it's almost like I'm looking at a picture of the stuff. Like the studying for a test doesn't last long, like I'll forget by the end of the school year, but I still remember it kind of. Like I see the words, it triggers something, but nothing will come up. But if you ask me something about my past, I can look up, and see the memory, and describe in (almost) exact detail of what happened. I remember my internet password that is around 15 digits long with random symbols, numbers, and letters. I make As on every test because I will study beforehand, and remember exactly what I needed to remember. I also remember how to play every piano piece I've learned in the past 3 years, such as "Turkish March", "I Believe", "My Immortal", "Trouble", and more. Idk if any of this is significant, but it's here
Nik Wolver According to him he could visualize objects extremely realistically. Tesla had a tendency to exaggerate but I feel there was some truth to it. He did come up with imaginative creations.
Tesla barely blueprinted any of his inventions (which were extremely detailed, mind you). When his lab, with all of his plans, burnt down, he rebuilt most of the inventions from his head
There was a student a few years ahead of me when I was in high school. She could page through a chapter of a textbook for a minute (taking a couple seconds per page), close it, and recite it then or the next day, or even the next week. She would challenge the teacher when she said something that contradicted the textbook during lecture, referencing the paragraph and page that contradicted it (and she'd quote it in front of the class). I agree that such a memory cannot be developed, but unless she was capable of memorizing a page of text after looking at it for two seconds I cannot agree that it does not exist at all. And frankly, I find that to be the bolder claim.
Can you talk about some kind of "photographic" sound memory? Often I replay songs in my head, some of which I've only heard once and even years later I will realize there is is soft bell or a maybe a quiet background synth I never noticed, or even the lyrics just suddenly come to me. I listen to the song and always confirm it. I have a masters in piano performance along with absolute pitch which I'm assuming is a factor. This is a topic none of my professors had any valid input on. Maybe you have better resources?
Still a little confused though. I can recall images and even “video” of what happened (generally earlier in the day) and replay them in my surroundings. My attention completely goes to that and is directed away from reality. I don’t have to close my eyes. I use this sometimes on tests and it’s wonderful. What is that called if it isn’t a photographic memory?
I remember my (older)sister convincing myself and friend of ours that she had photographic memory. Thing is she always was very smart and it wasn't hard to believe her, true I was 6 years younger than her, but still...
Because every time we remember something, it changes a little due to our constantly shifting perspective. Even if there is such a thing as photographic memory, it will, like a photograph, get dark spots or become blurry.
There's a teacher at my college that has some kind of photographic memory. He can recall who sits were, their hairstyle, clothing, everything. My bf told me that he and his classmates tried to mess with him and changed seats. The teacher noticed and told the one by one, to seat on their usual places
I can still recall a red brick building from a spelling book I had in elementary school when I was attempting to use photographic memory to study for the test, it worked well enough. I think given the right circumstances a child could fully develop photographic memory, but the incentive for that neurological development hasn’t been provided yet.
In case anyone was wondering the “image” is corruptible (susceptible to suggestion), and fades without reinforcement so it’s certainly not accurate any longer, but even thinking about it now my brain is reconstructing details about it, such as it taking up the top page of the book, on the left, with a colored title bar above it, and the text on the right behind a solid vertical line.
How about the guy that draw rome after just seeing it once? How would you explain this case? I know he has autism but that doesnt explain his ability to recall an entire city.
Back in the seventies, my mother had a friend who could recite, verbatim, any page of any book she owned, and she owned hundreds. For clarity, she had a bookcase that spanned an entire wall, floor to ceiling (roughly 15' x 8'), filled to the brim with books, and her garage was scattered with boxes of books. Anyway, when we visited, my sister and I would pick out a book, at random, and give her the title and page number and she would recite the text back to us. To make it more challenging, I'd choose the top of a right hand page, right in the middle of a sentence... Another thing we would do was to pick out a random car, on the road to the mall, then, ounce we got to the mall, we'd give her the make, model, and color, and she'd recite the license plate number back to us! If that isn't the definition of a photographic memory, I don't know what is. By the way, and for what it's worth, she was in her late twenties at the time. Not surprisingly, she was in MENSA.
I'm horrible with names and faces but I can remember a story I've read once even years after reading it. I can also describe places I have visited in great detail even after a short visit. But that's not really the same.
I can remember things from when I was 2 years old... But when I think of other things that was in that moment, it appears white for me.. Like when I was 2 year sold, I would unplug my moms treadmill when she was on it constantly. I remember getting in trouble about it but I also remember how the living room was set up but when I think of the kitche it appears as a white glowing room..
at my dads college they had a guy who just looked at the board for a couple of minutes and that was it, no notes at all, maybe he was just really smart and pretended he has photographic memory but still, pretty cool
Then what is it that I'm doing when I can recall a page of, say vocabulary words, and partially read some of them? True, they're not super clear, most are kinda fuzzy. But I can often bring up pages I've long studied from in my mind. Even if I can't see it clearly, I know where on the page it should be. I always thought that was a kind of bad photographic memory.
I had a friend of mine who before every test im at lunch trying to cram it all in my head and he comes over (normally i would only cram if it was for a test after lunch) and he would ask to see my book he would look through and then give it back. I didnt know him super well but after a while i began talking to him more and then i asked him like why he would always ask for the book if all he did was look through the pages for a few seconds. He told me that he had photographic memory and i asked how and he just kinda shrugged and said he could remember the pages just like you would do with a phone. Like pull up whatever picture you wanted or needed without question.
I have photographic and audiophonic memory. It's not too detailed but I can pull up images exactly as I saw them months, years, or a decade later. Not just images but videos too. I can remember pages of text but it's much harder and easier if it has colored sections. Only thing is I don't have perfect recall; sometimes it takes a while for images, moments, or audio come back. It's a lot like a library and I have to flip through a few pages of a book to find the image I'm looking for. It's not perfect but I can watch someone do something once and learn how to do it on my own after. Also I can create 3D images like augmented reality technology but everything is set to like 50% opacity or something close to that. I can pull up models of buildings, maps, and even make stuff or write stuff to go back and read later. It's limited in how much I can hold on to at once but I can hold onto a note I wrote to myself in the air (creating almost like a self induced controlled hallucination) and pull it up to read again days later.
I had an uncle who could look at a blue print and reproduce it up to two days later. He was an engineer and rose through the ranks quickly. Also Marilou Henner has an iditic memory and can remember thing from her early childhood, like age 2 or 3. So if sci show says there is no such thing then I think its more of a definition problem.
I knew someone who had the ability to remember every moment in his life. He said he would make himself pass out when too much became overwhelming - his only relief he claimed. Is this common?
Oh, so that's why I used to remember pages on my notebook when I was younger. I always thought I just made them up, like say, I remembered the answers, and of course, I knew my handwriting, so I thought I made up the pages everytime I remembered them; I was in fact worried why I don't seem to to do so nowadays. But I guess that's just the childhood ability, so... I wonder if I tried to practice it, could I get that ability back?
What about drawing things on paper from memory? I've been trained in art school to keep "a library of images" in my brain where I can draw from, we can even draw people from memory.
That's normal memory. I bet you can't accurately find what colour the dot was on the top upper left corner, for example. Moreover, you've been trained. Photographic is that - a photograph. In one instance, the person remembers. It can be a type of image they haven't seen before, or one they're used to. The quality still stays the same.
I have a photographic memory, I just can never remember to take off the lens cap first...
I have photographic memory and it's hard for me to sleep
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idk if i do but i remember that one time 2 years ago my teacher told me he was doing tax evasion
This is glorious, I have been researching "photographic memory techniques" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Danvelyn Niyameron Magic - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my neighbour got cool results with it.
That funny camera,, but truth picture in the mind is real, but how much corruption is also using individuals for their gift's, reference ( underground Colorado CIA military) the use of the milk cartoon children of the past, sits n a mountain in Colorado
So I guess you could say that our photographic memory just hasn't _developed_ yet.
60 Second Success I see you with a new pun on every video that I click on. I kind of love you.
Badum-tsss
60 Second Success that's a negative.
get out
I would think many people would be too young to know about developed and negative.
Everyone has Photographic Memory
Some people just don't have film.
snap!
This is glorious, I've been looking for "semi eidetic memory" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Danvelyn Niyameron Magic - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my partner got excellent success with it.
I don't see these "mental pictures" people say in the mind, preferably because I have aphantasia
@abcd3625 atleast I don't remember a sexual scene very long or atleast a horror scene or jumpscare isn't ingrained in my mind and i don't think i am even missing out, people have their own ways of living
I need that Oregon Trail shirt
That shirt gives me traumatic flashbacks to full party wipes
It's LOLZ
YAAAAAAAAASSSSSSS! LOL
I thought "Eidetic memory" was often used as shorthand for "really really good memory for details", like when people can accurately recall every scene of a movie they really like, for instance. Just a sense of "can learn things by heart easily".
My childhood dream, crushed, in a mere 6 minutes.
so this is adulthood...
I have a pornographic memory, good enough.
fischX
Me too! lol
fischX my shop foreman had it too!
Thank you for brighten my day.
Hahahahahahahaha
Haha you got me!
Brit is the best presenter ever, I don't know how she does it but she could be talking about anything and I would listen to her for hours *_* Hey maybe do an episode on that? Why we enjoy listening to certain people or sth like this?
I'd guess we enjoy Brit as a presenter because she has a very attractive voice, she uses her body language to present topics in an active and expressive way, and to top it off she's cute.
charliesgotaguitar +
I'd be interested in an episode about that, too. Some youtubers and podcasters I can listen to for hours and it's almost soothing, while some people I can only do 20 min at a time. The weird thing is, some of the people I like the most don't have conventionally "pretty" or melodic voices.
HDCybersun you just essentially said "we are attracted the someone's style because their style is attractive", not really advancing understanding here.
I was looking to see if there was a comment for this before I added mine. Her hand motions are perfect. 👍👍 not the point but subconsciously made the video even better
what about that guy who draw a city after seeing it a few minutes?
Franlu Gauto i think he was a savant
Franlu Gauto savant syndrome.
This guy? /watch?v=x3IMP0fwlCM
There are techniques, "memory palace" for instance, and mnemonics for another, to train your mind to do otherwise near impossible level memorizing. Some of the application (of course) depends on the particular individual aspiring to improve memory, while others depend more on the nature of what's being memorized.
Chess-masters, for instance, not only have the ability to memorize the entirety of a chess board at a glance, but can generally keep up with an entire game on notations alone. They implicitly understand the grid-layout of the board, and the nomenclature for the pieces is a coded language of simplicity... It's still no less impressive, but it's not quite as incredible as a lot of people make it out to be.
On the whole, I'd have to admit the ability to memorize the Lord of the Rings, in its entirety isn't so impressive unless you impose a time limit for the process. Then... probably anyone capable of reasonable reproduction in less than a year would be incredible... (as an example)...
Savants are very real, as well, but don't envy them. Where they may excel greatly in one category (memory for example) they usually suffer a pretty hefty detriment somewhere else. Not all are entirely "crippled" in some mental fashion, but a lot of them tend to be...
Finally, you'd likely be impressed with your own growth in the ability if you just put in the time and effort to start memorizing things. I knew a guy who was working at his memory just to maintain cognitive function for his later years (a theory in the 90's proven later)... He'd memorized practically everything about any Hanna Barbara and Warner cartoon ever released to the public. On top of that, he was a signalman (SM) in the Navy, so there were flags, colors and shapes codes, semaphore, and morse code to be learned and maintained... :o)
:o) Carlos... :o) Actually, some of us actually bothered to read the books of research and development on the matters of "memory palace" technique before Shear Luck Holmes ever came out with it...
To be most particular (and relating to my earlier post) It really depends on the type of information I'm memorizing as to how the palace must be laid out, and that comes right down to the details of lifts or stairs... If you really wanted to know... Usually, for me at least, the more detailed the level of information must be when recalled, the more production there is to storing it or "getting there"...
In the actual technique (and I have no idea what the hell Shearluck said) it's a method of visualization to map your memory using the spacial senses of your brain, along with the imagery center, and then the actual information's general sourcing. So you're renetworking the brain to enhance the circuitry devoted to that particular piece of information. Say I want to memorize a date, (Battle of New Orleans, 1814) In the simplest and rawest form, it's an alphanumeric (mix of text and numerals)... So simple is this, that upon a mental map of the 1800's wing, I can stick a little mural of battle at 1814, label as New Orleans, and done and done... :o) BUT there's a fair wealth of other details, if I wanted them, like the whole thing was related to the War of 1812, which was fought over "British Impressment" of anyone at sea who spoke English, and this was due to the Napoleonic Wars with a rising and eventually falling French Empire under Napoleon, so I could wrap a nice staircase around the bloody 1812 tower with all this and set the portraits related to Napoleon at the base, and bring up the fact that "Impressment" as an issue was resolved two months before the first shot was even fired in 1812....
Of course, being relatively eclectic in my musical tastes, I could just refer to Johnny Horton for the New Orleans date as well... So the joke (as it were) can be bounced to your proverbial end of the court. :o)
And no texts, notes, or idle rifling through net-scapes needed for this... The whole text wall took about 1min 40 sec... :oP
WHat's the name of the condition where you can only remember really useless unhelpful facts but can't remember anything important.
Questionable Object It's called being an American. If those facts are made up and racially biased, it's called being conservative.
Absent minded professor?
@@thedarthcreeper9536 "If those facts are made up and racially biased, it's called being conservative."
You misspelled Democrat there. Conservatives celebrate the achievements and policies of their candidates as opposed to (talking about "useless and unhelpful"!!) their skin colour or reproductive organs.
I think a "photographic memory," is often used as a synonym for a really good memory. Also, sometimes paring various sensory inputs can help memory.
When I was in college, I would doodle a lot while in lectures, and when I took the test I would remember the answer with the lecture along with remembering the doodle. It's not like I had an image of the doodle in my head, but the sensory input of the imagery helped to remember details of what was discussed in the class when it came to test time.
There's a whole technique around that called memory palace, where you pair together different pieces of sensory information to strengthen your recall skills.
Mnemonic devices work along with that, too... I think a lot of "us" get easily impressed by "memory athletes" because we just don't practice enough. :o)
That's exactly what happened with me when I took tests! The doodles were in my notebook margins, so whenever I studied, I would kind of include them in my memorizing, I guess. It wasn't even on purpose, but I found it helped. And it also seemed like doodling in class helped me focus on/listen to the lecture better, so I didn't zone out..
Tuliona I'm a bit ADD, tricks like this would help me focus, it just turned out that it also helped me recall information.
Stephen Benner this is something i do in class without thinking about it when i'm bored, but i think it helps me focus better on the class.
I've always had a photographic memory of sorts. I used this to breeze through exams. I have the ability to pull up pages of notes in my head, almost like an open book exam, but in my head. Always worked best with my own handwritten notes, but was possible to a slightly lesser degree with textbooks. I only really use this ability still today to recall where I saw something so I can go back to it later or tell someone else where to find it.
You just described my ability 😂
Found the same! Closed my eyes and could recall entire paragraphs. Even now I can only learn peoples names by writing them down. Guess the act of writing helps further cement the memory along with the visual.
@@farrahlipsham5533that's just a good memory, not photographic
It's not a photographic memory then, it's just your ability to create images by piecing together already known details - not noticing new details from an image you saved in your brain
I have a near photographic memory. It takes a while to develop.
(OK, that's a pre-digital joke) ;)
Lol
but if someone does have photographic memory they wouldn't forget the bad memories as well :/ not sure if i want that
Indeed, I'm very thankful for some of the many things I have forgotten.
quick question: Does Batman have photographic memory?
How can you possibly know you forgot the bad memories? At least some of mines are still very real.
I know I've forgotten bad memories, because bad things happen in life, the fact I dont remember them all is a fortunate gift.
Ceelvain There’s a thing where you remember that something happened, but you can’t remember what happened.
I want a memory like Sheldon Cooper's memory.
Mohammed same
It’s called an eidetic memory. Search it on Google. Great read.
an actor's memory.
I wouldn't say I have a photographic memory, but I do have an incredibly accurate memory that feels almost like a video, or rather a continuously fluent memory that feels similar to how we feel when we are describing/narrating/retell our favorite scene in a movie, but with nearly everything.
I don't believe that a 100% photographic memory exists, but I am able to read over notes once or twice and then I can see them in my head while testing. I don't know what you would call that but it works that way with most things for me. If I see something then I usually remember it. If it is something awful then I don't really forget it and that image comes up when I see something related or hear something related. However, this also happens with good events as well. It is not 100% and some details are left out but it is something. For example on a final exam I was able to remember all of my notes except for 2 pages and one of them had an important equation on it so it wasn't an ideal situation but I could still see the majority of my notes. Again, I don't think that a 100% photographic memory exists where someone will have perfect recall but my memory isn't like the eidetic imagery either because it stays for much longer and I am able to bring up these images years later. I know my memory isn't 100% but it is like remembering things as pictures and videos that I can recall by looking at things related to it or thinking about those events. I wish I could forget somethings but I can't seem to figure out how because if they very positive or negative then it is like they get burned into my mind. Anyways, I hope my experience with my memory gives some insight into this topic. I encourage further discussion and questions down below :D
I had similar experiences. Images were not photographic in that I could only "see" bits of a page or image, but they were often vivid enough that I could reproduce salient parts arranged in the same way or re-read figures in my mind. I also couldn't count on my ability to do this. In a similar vein, I can often recite conversations verbatim, but have trouble recalling only parts of them. I do not believe I am a savant, though I'm pretty sure I'm an Aspie.
My great-grandad had a similar thing though he left school at 15. He could play rounds of cards and in order recall every card played and by who. I don't think it was exactly eidetic memory because he couldn't recall them hours later but it was still impressive. We never beat him in 500 :( Good memory has passed down through the family but with our generation growing up with the technology we have the reliance on basic memory for phone numbers etc has decreased and the neural pathway for storage is used less so overall ability to remember things vanishes.
same. It's not always perfect, but I get most general details. Yeah it does suck because I remember many bad memories still VERY vividly and can recall them. My husband finds it weird because it means I remember so much more than he does like almost everything.
I clicked on this video because I am convinced that chess grandmasters have photographic memory. The video is dismissive of the idea. But how does one explain being able to play 10 or more blindfold games of chess at the same time? So the comment section might be more illuminating.
My father told me that when he was in school he use to have the ability to look at an exam review, or any kind of paper, and he could memorize it word for word. Now I'm jealous.
I used to have that kind of ability, but I got a brain injury and afterwards I lost it I don't know if I have lost it due to my brain injury or is it just because I have grown in age?!
Very recently there has emerged a young boy from Nepal "Bijay Shahi" who can memorize 1000 pages of book IN ANY LANGUAGE in just frikin 10 mins. He needs 1 sec to memorise 1 page. Search him on youtube.
I can recall snapshots of buildings I haven't been in since I was 5 or 6 years old in good enough detail to describe the layout of the building as well as colors and shapes of different objects. Also if there are large fonts on things like banners I can recall the text if its one or two words but nothing extensive. If I try to recall pages in books its just a blurry black and white blob. So can you explain how I can recall images from 20 years ago but you say that eidetic memory only lasts a few seconds?
I had a biology teacher, who told me once that I am more prone to thinking in images. I do recall when taking a test I could see the layout of the page, the information I was thinking of was on, however I always had a hard time seeing text, it was always colours and shapes, and when having an oral presentation, when I was at a loss for words, I was always trying to grasp an image, trying to show it to my audience through my gestures. But I never thought that other people might have a different experience in their way of thinking. Like... is that actually a thing? that people's minds adapt to a different form of thinking, either (broadly said) in images or text? would be interesting to know
Not sure if this has a name other than Spatial Memory but as long as I remember where I was standing I can remember all of the details around me. I'll be able to recall tiny details in what happened, who walked by, and who said/did what. Basically as long as someone gives me a couple clues as to what memory they're referring to I can go back to it. Places I've spent countless hours in like my bedroom have the least effect with this though because of all of the similar memories or places I've stood in
Your shirt gave me a throwback to my days in elementary school when I used to look forward to playing the Oregon Trail game when my class had computer lab. That random death by dysentery ruined so many of my adventures!
People seem to get confused about this because of course we can recall images,
I can see the album art to my favorite album in my head.
But recalling visual information, and "photographic memory" are not the same thing.
Photographic memory would be looking at a page of a book for a moment, closing the book, and THEN reading that page.
Its all about absorbing the information after the fact...your eyes acting as cameras.
But in reality...we have to first read the page to then remember it later.
Some people can do this to an impressive degree...maybe they can recall that page 10 years later...but its still not photographic memory.
Photographic memory is old school, I want a full cinematic memory in Super HD 3D with THX certified sound.
On a more serious note, this episode reminded me of the quote "If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.” from Civ V. a little googling found it is originally from Ian Stewart, The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
When I was studying for a test and read some pages over and over again to memorize them, I started looking at the whole page and tried to memotize how the page looked, how the pictures and text were arranged and stuff like that. When I got really nervous at the test, which I often do, I could technically "read" the text off of the page in my memory. Or at least a few words (or the shape of some words), which helped me remember the whole thing that was written there.
I had to try really hard though.
But that's the only thing that worked for me as I get extremely nervous during tests.
i could recall very specific pages and all the little details on a page of my textbooks in high school. now im 23 and i cant even remeber when i put my keys after i just opened my door
I had something similar to the eidetic imagery of sorts when I was younger... But it doesn't match up exactly. There were a fair number (significant number) of times where I could recall a whole page of text for instance, and use that word for word page to write an exam.
But the perhaps not so odd part was that this was really common only for classes where I would read the textbooks or do the studies/revision very early (such as the grades 11 and 12 classes where I read the books and related online works over the summer prior to taking the course). Important to note is that the reason I said 'not so odd' in the previous sentence was because these classes and the material I remembered very well were my favourites. Therefore perhaps that fact and the situation where the specific memories were part of my long-term memory had helped.
Recently a young boy named as bijaya shahi from nepal was revealed in public.he has unbelievable memory power just like photographic memory.
At 4:07 you say that eidetic memory disappear when toughts become more abstract and linguistic. Do you have any reference study for that?
Many people (including myself) would claim that learning the rules of some process kinda destroy the intuitive reasonning they could have had before. Like with the De Morgan's laws in logic or other areas of math. I wonder if that could be related to the effect that destroy eidetic memory.
Dose any one else remember thos kid chapter books where it was a girl who could just say "click" and she got the picture in her mind forever she was like 8 or something
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In Star Trek - The Voyage Home, whale researcher Gillian, played by Catharina Hicks, can cite Spock word for word, after which she states that she has an eidetic memory.
I used to have eiditic memory when I was a kid. There's some bits that linger, but definitely not like it used to be. I always felt like it went away because as I got older life just got more complicated and I cared about more things so there was more for my brain to keep track of. When I was like 5 I had no responsibilities and just had to worry about not getting lost in the mall or fighting with my sister. When I got older, it was that, school, friends, coolness, homework, and everything that goes with that. My memory even now is pretty good and it was great when I graduated from college but it's not like it used to be. I might just be getting older, but I think it's more work stress. Deadlines, office politics, not wanting to fail or get fired and other stuff takes a toll on memory and I have a lot of work-related anxiety that's functional and helps me to do my best at my job but puts a lot of stress on me that messes with my memory.
rigghhhtt
@abcd3625 That might be so, but stress and mental illness also negatively affect memory too. Every human is a combination of any number of experiences so you can't actually test for this because you can't have an actual control group. If you try to do a study you can't control every person's experiences to ensure that you get the accurate results you want. Even someone who does have naturally good memory would have trouble performing if a loved one died and their mind is somewhere else. It just means it's difficult to study rather than it can't exist or is too rare because life is complicated. Same issue with most psychological studies. There's a lot of outside factors.
When I was a child I saw this (probably Disney) movie where someone slept with a tape recorder next to them that played the stuff they needed to know, when they awoke they retained the lesson they learned while asleep.
Can you do a video on aphantasia, pretty much the opposite of photographic memory? I am pretty sure I have I have it, and I'd be nice to see some research on it presented in your awesome format so that I can refer friends and family to it. A lot of them don't believe it's a thing.
i look at a street light led and when the light flashes on me it hurts me a little as it usually does when when i close my eyes i can see the led bulbs and can even count the no. of bulbs in a series and then they fade away after some time usually after blinking a lot, is it just with me??? plzzz
At high school my French teacher told the class she had a photographic memory. I'd never heard of such a thing. I tried mine but was sad to find I didn't have one. After that I gave up because I believed I could never compete. Years later, with Master's degrees and stuff, I realize that it's more about enjoying what you do, memory comes automatically with that as long as your brain is functioning right. The teacher's words were a hindrance to education.
My grandmother and mother have passed a paragraph of a book written by my great grandmother, through the daughters, but I had it passed down to me, is this a memory imprint or photographic memory?
I am really happy a lot of people know about the Memory palace thingy. I'm glad Patrick Jane wasn't just making stuff up.
i just wanted to note that i am not offended by the little square space blurbs at the beginning and end. as long as they aren't stuck in the middle of the science, i think a little ad like that is fine. i'm glad scishow is getting some sponsorship. just don't let it get out of hand.
I noticed that eidetic imagery is a very good description of what happens when I see a photo of a dinosaur (T Rex to be specific). I'm very very afraid of dinosaurs and when I see a picture of one and look away the picture is still there and doesn't go away it's honestly terrifying and I hate it but I've never experienced this phenomenon with any other image. Maybe fear is what triggers it? I'm not sure.
how about the ability to count objects after only brief look at them? Is that also part of savant syndrome or it's own thing? My friend can estimate the amount of things after a brief look, but notably he recalls the image in his head. Then (he says) he divides the objects in groups of equal size and counts them by multiplying. He can for example count flocks of birds flying, or in briefly shown image.
eidetik imaging is propably when you learn how to get your visual sensations to the 3D calculation part of your brain and send it through for a few rounds.
I can do it but it needs a lot of concentration to keep it in the "3Dspace" of your brain and make it last longer
interesting. i remember reading comic books as a child and being able to remember what tile contains which text and describe it months after reading it. i always thought that ability fading away had to do something with me being rediculed for it :/
awesome video! super entertaining and kept me glued
I have an ability to memorize every single meme I see on the Internet. Pretty impressive, huh?
Food for thought:
How do children who are deaf develop linguistic aptitude? You mentioned that children can have eidetic imagery, but that their development of linguistics may help cause it to dissipate.
Are deaf children more likely to have eidetic memories, since they have loss of hearing?
I am anosmic and know, as of almost 3 years ago, what it is like to lose a sense; however mine was acquired. This has created more of an interest in those who do not have at least one of the basic five senses. (Everyone needs to learn more about flavor vs taste more, as flavor is from the olfactory nerve AND NOT taste buds.
I love this channel!
I've got that eidetic memory but it only lasts for like 30 seconds. So I look at an object, close my eyes, and then I can see it and recall what's in the image for a little while before it disappears. I should try prolonged rehearsal
Props on the Oregon trail shirt...NOICE!
good to know thx. I was always a bit down on myself because I didn't remember everything picture clear. I can pull up audio sounds perfectly though, and my visual memory is still amazingly good to the point I quote, combine, interpret, and combine information well enough to create very complex things/ideas. Most of my life I thought it was just how everyone could remember, and no one was ever interested in me enough to tell me other wise (partly because we moved about ever 6 months since I was born).
Anyway, thx for letting me know its not even possible to get a photographic memory :-)
That shirt is 💯% awesome! Oh, the memories I have of playing Oregon Trail! I didn’t know it had become a meme until recently.
In Nepal there is a guy how can read upto 1000 pages any language books in just 10 minutes and can memorize all pages texts and can write whole book without any mistakes even little things like . , -/ with in a day like magic... using Photographic memory
Actually, a relative of mine used to be able to look at a page of text and remember it well enough to call it back up in her brain days later and read it out loud.
For example, she managed to read the entire 3rd part of Tolkien's Lord of The Rings in two school days (albeit with all nighters) because she could only have the book out of the library for a limited time. When her friends wanted to know what happened, she simple read the book aloud to them- she didn't remember the specific words, but she could call up the image and read from there.
She sadly doesn't have that ability anymore, as it disappeared with age, so no testing can be done.
Yea my brother said he had a friend in college with the same ability. I think it exists, just there are no documented cases of it
I'd love to see a video on memory formation or even one of cognitive techniques to influence memories. Either would pair well with this episode.
After reading I can recall thought for though what i read, along with images (not well enough to reproduce it, but enough to be able to say what it was.), and even where in the book and page the information was.
This ability always impresses people when I go looking for information, as I can flip through a book looking only at the exact spot where the information is.
All I know is when I try to describe to anyone else what I have they say they wished they could do it too.
I can remember exact memories like pictures, or like I'm actually experiencing it from like 14 years ago.. when I was like 4. Since I was around 4 I've been able to do this, and I'm great at taking tests - I can remember the image of the notes or vocab by like pulling up the memory in my head like a picture. Like, it's almost like I'm looking at a picture of the stuff. Like the studying for a test doesn't last long, like I'll forget by the end of the school year, but I still remember it kind of. Like I see the words, it triggers something, but nothing will come up. But if you ask me something about my past, I can look up, and see the memory, and describe in (almost) exact detail of what happened. I remember my internet password that is around 15 digits long with random symbols, numbers, and letters. I make As on every test because I will study beforehand, and remember exactly what I needed to remember. I also remember how to play every piano piece I've learned in the past 3 years, such as "Turkish March", "I Believe", "My Immortal", "Trouble", and more. Idk if any of this is significant, but it's here
this is called having a memory
Didn't Tesla have eidetic imagery?
Nik Wolver
According to him he could visualize objects extremely realistically. Tesla had a tendency to exaggerate but I feel there was some truth to it. He did come up with imaginative creations.
I've read some kind of biography on him but more focused on his work. Anyway, I remember reading about some kind of really weird memory.
Tesla barely blueprinted any of his inventions (which were extremely detailed, mind you). When his lab, with all of his plans, burnt down, he rebuilt most of the inventions from his head
Your shirt! I grew up in Oregon! We played that game on the old green and black Macs!
There was a student a few years ahead of me when I was in high school. She could page through a chapter of a textbook for a minute (taking a couple seconds per page), close it, and recite it then or the next day, or even the next week. She would challenge the teacher when she said something that contradicted the textbook during lecture, referencing the paragraph and page that contradicted it (and she'd quote it in front of the class).
I agree that such a memory cannot be developed, but unless she was capable of memorizing a page of text after looking at it for two seconds I cannot agree that it does not exist at all. And frankly, I find that to be the bolder claim.
My brother had a friend in college with the same ability. I think it exists, just nobody with it has been documented.
Can you talk about some kind of "photographic" sound memory? Often I replay songs in my head, some of which I've only heard once and even years later I will realize there is is soft bell or a maybe a quiet background synth I never noticed, or even the lyrics just suddenly come to me. I listen to the song and always confirm it. I have a masters in piano performance along with absolute pitch which I'm assuming is a factor. This is a topic none of my professors had any valid input on. Maybe you have better resources?
Yes it does, I see maps perfectly in my head with all major features, sometimes they are upside down and I have to turn them around
I read a series when I was young called Cam Janson and she had a photographic memory
Still a little confused though. I can recall images and even “video” of what happened (generally earlier in the day) and replay them in my surroundings. My attention completely goes to that and is directed away from reality. I don’t have to close my eyes. I use this sometimes on tests and it’s wonderful. What is that called if it isn’t a photographic memory?
this is called a memory my guy
I love the way this host presents
Great job!
where'd you get that shirt?!
I remember my (older)sister convincing myself and friend of ours that she had photographic memory. Thing is she always was very smart and it wasn't hard to believe her, true I was 6 years younger than her, but still...
What's it called when you can recollect thoughts and sounds
Because every time we remember something, it changes a little due to our constantly shifting perspective. Even if there is such a thing as photographic memory, it will, like a photograph, get dark spots or become blurry.
There's a teacher at my college that has some kind of photographic memory. He can recall who sits were, their hairstyle, clothing, everything. My bf told me that he and his classmates tried to mess with him and changed seats. The teacher noticed and told the one by one, to seat on their usual places
Still love this presenter voice, cadence, and delivery.
"3rd mug of tea"? Lord I'm chuggin energy drinks like water in the desert at that point.
The problem with having photographic memory is the limitations on the human eye, not memory.
I never even believed that such thing really exists.
I can still recall a red brick building from a spelling book I had in elementary school when I was attempting to use photographic memory to study for the test, it worked well enough. I think given the right circumstances a child could fully develop photographic memory, but the incentive for that neurological development hasn’t been provided yet.
In case anyone was wondering the “image” is corruptible (susceptible to suggestion), and fades without reinforcement so it’s certainly not accurate any longer, but even thinking about it now my brain is reconstructing details about it, such as it taking up the top page of the book, on the left, with a colored title bar above it, and the text on the right behind a solid vertical line.
How about the guy that draw rome after just seeing it once? How would you explain this case? I know he has autism but that doesnt explain his ability to recall an entire city.
Where did you get your shirt?
if I hear a lecture once I can recall a few things but if I'm given a test on it I almost do perfect
Nice tat.. Someone had a great vacation down in Key West she didn't wanna forget :O)
ever heard of Stephen Wiltshire? that's pretty close. btw sweet channel(s), big fan!
What about NTZ in the movie (and series) 'Limitless?"
Back in the seventies, my mother had a friend who could recite, verbatim, any page of any book she owned, and she owned hundreds. For clarity, she had a bookcase that spanned an entire wall, floor to ceiling (roughly 15' x 8'), filled to the brim with books, and her garage was scattered with boxes of books. Anyway, when we visited, my sister and I would pick out a book, at random, and give her the title and page number and she would recite the text back to us. To make it more challenging, I'd choose the top of a right hand page, right in the middle of a sentence...
Another thing we would do was to pick out a random car, on the road to the mall, then, ounce we got to the mall, we'd give her the make, model, and color, and she'd recite the license plate number back to us! If that isn't the definition of a photographic memory, I don't know what is. By the way, and for what it's worth, she was in her late twenties at the time.
Not surprisingly, she was in MENSA.
I was just researching this question yesterday. SciShow Psych, are you psychic?
Your shirt is awesome, maybe the 90's kids will understand it!
I'm horrible with names and faces but I can remember a story I've read once even years after reading it. I can also describe places I have visited in great detail even after a short visit. But that's not really the same.
I can remember things from when I was 2 years old... But when I think of other things that was in that moment, it appears white for me.. Like when I was 2 year sold, I would unplug my moms treadmill when she was on it constantly. I remember getting in trouble about it but I also remember how the living room was set up but when I think of the kitche it appears as a white glowing room..
at my dads college they had a guy who just looked at the board for a couple of minutes and that was it, no notes at all, maybe he was just really smart and pretended he has photographic memory but still, pretty cool
Then what is it that I'm doing when I can recall a page of, say vocabulary words, and partially read some of them? True, they're not super clear, most are kinda fuzzy. But I can often bring up pages I've long studied from in my mind. Even if I can't see it clearly, I know where on the page it should be. I always thought that was a kind of bad photographic memory.
your shirt 😂 bringing back some great memories
This should have been entirely focused on eidetic imagery. That was the coolest bit hands down
The conductor Arturo Toscanini memorized the scores of hundreds of symphonies and operas.
but what about that guy that can fly over a city and then paint it almost perfectly without any pictures.
What about Derren Brown? He even managed to teach a guy to win a trivia competition by reading stats books for a week
I had a friend of mine who before every test im at lunch trying to cram it all in my head and he comes over (normally i would only cram if it was for a test after lunch) and he would ask to see my book he would look through and then give it back. I didnt know him super well but after a while i began talking to him more and then i asked him like why he would always ask for the book if all he did was look through the pages for a few seconds. He told me that he had photographic memory and i asked how and he just kinda shrugged and said he could remember the pages just like you would do with a phone. Like pull up whatever picture you wanted or needed without question.
I have photographic and audiophonic memory. It's not too detailed but I can pull up images exactly as I saw them months, years, or a decade later. Not just images but videos too. I can remember pages of text but it's much harder and easier if it has colored sections. Only thing is I don't have perfect recall; sometimes it takes a while for images, moments, or audio come back. It's a lot like a library and I have to flip through a few pages of a book to find the image I'm looking for. It's not perfect but I can watch someone do something once and learn how to do it on my own after.
Also I can create 3D images like augmented reality technology but everything is set to like 50% opacity or something close to that. I can pull up models of buildings, maps, and even make stuff or write stuff to go back and read later. It's limited in how much I can hold on to at once but I can hold onto a note I wrote to myself in the air (creating almost like a self induced controlled hallucination) and pull it up to read again days later.
Lmao ppl be remembering all this kinds of details when I can't even remember... I forgot what I was gonna say but y'know what I mean
I had an uncle who could look at a blue print and reproduce it up to two days later. He was an engineer and rose through the ranks quickly. Also Marilou Henner has an iditic memory and can remember thing from her early childhood, like age 2 or 3. So if sci show says there is no such thing then I think its more of a definition problem.
I knew someone who had the ability to remember every moment in his life. He said he would make himself pass out when too much became overwhelming - his only relief he claimed. Is this common?
maybe editic memory (or whatever it's called, the thing found only in children) is from the eyes retaining the imprint of the previous image?
Oh, so that's why I used to remember pages on my notebook when I was younger. I always thought I just made them up, like say, I remembered the answers, and of course, I knew my handwriting, so I thought I made up the pages everytime I remembered them; I was in fact worried why I don't seem to to do so nowadays.
But I guess that's just the childhood ability, so...
I wonder if I tried to practice it, could I get that ability back?
What about drawing things on paper from memory? I've been trained in art school to keep "a library of images" in my brain where I can draw from, we can even draw people from memory.
That's normal memory. I bet you can't accurately find what colour the dot was on the top upper left corner, for example. Moreover, you've been trained. Photographic is that - a photograph. In one instance, the person remembers. It can be a type of image they haven't seen before, or one they're used to. The quality still stays the same.
I see, so it's really about actual superhuman levels of memory.