RL 5324 yeah let her finish and give him the chance to chime in as well with his perspective, if the girl didn’t let him take some of the questions asked by the interviewer he may have never have gotten more than 3 words
having memory like this, it can be a curse when a person goes through tragedies. So it's a blessing that a person is gifted with forgetness. I have this curse and I try everyday to stop and distract my mind from remembering so I can help myself to survive.
The fact that she can have such a healthy & positive outlook despite all of the downsides, shows we really don't have any excuses for not being able to focus on the good & let go of the bad in our lives. If they can do it then we most certainly should be able to as well.
Jeffrey, your theory is enviable but historically inaccurate. People with serious hyperthymesia have recurring memories of the same events - whether traumatic or pleasant - with equal degrees of accuracy.
My aunt could remember the days and what time that things happened.decades ago.. . things that happened to me that I didn't even know..and what time it happened..
I didn't have the "highly" part but 5 years ago I did have a Superior Autobiographical Memory. When I was younger I thought that everyone did. Sometimes it wasn't easy and I wondered what it would be like to live without it. I got very sick in 2015 and now that memory is gone. I still remember a great deal but not like I used to, not with the same experience that I used to and it hurts to be without that. It's not always easy to have what we call a gift or an ability but treasure it because it is what makes you you and sometimes it can be taken away :(
@@richtomlinson7090 That is early. From a child development point I think people usually start remembering around age 5. I'm not an expert that's just what I've heard. My first memories go back before my 1st birthday but they get more vivid and more frequent after that.
Similar happened to me. Except not sick but faced something traumatic that ruined me. Made me forget many things to the point where I couldn’t remember the piano pieces I had easily memorized and could play for hours. I had to relearn how to play them. It was depressing.. I still beat myself up for it. But that type of memory is coming back again where I can easily memorize things again 🙏 I can remember when I was 8 months old.
As Louise said her friend just really started paying attention to what was going on around him in every moment. That is great advice for everyone! Live in the Now. Be present in the Present.
A key to memory is ASSOCIATING what you want to remember with something else, and then hopefully associating that something with another thing on so on. Our memories are not linked in a logical fashion, but rather by associations which can be completely unrelated to each other logically. These people seem to live out their days associating everything that happens with the current date and day. The first thing they almost always recall is what day of the week the date was. This is a clever way of organizing memories, because you have a very easy path into past memories by simply looking at a list of dates. If instead the thing you're associating the day's events with is what smell is in the air or what you wore that day, you can't easily retrieve those entry points to trigger memories of the day. Organizing memories by date also lets you put your life events in chronological order which may be useful.
I have this, the day after the fellow who mentions his birthday on this had his 10th birthday, was the crash of a USAir jet near Pittsburgh. I remember I had a lot of homework that day that my parents thought was more then necessary. The following day, the day of the plane crash, was not as much homework but still a lot. So I have this but not as gifted as the people on this show. The down side is I have PTSD and it is because I cannot forget all the painful memories in school. I have the emotions of the bad days and dates can be like, "Oh I have to remember this was that painful weekend 18 years ago in school". So it can be a blessing and a curse but with PTSD I wish I did not have this.
i have this, and i hate it, it affects every relationship that i had, its like every wrong that happened repeats ever and ever, same feeling, same argument, same noises, even if it happened 10 years ago
Conspiracy at home, as far as what I meant to the 'pikachu/binary thing' Ever since this 'flat earth' thing now hit the Internet, people now say; 'over the horizon'...no one effing thing goes over the horizon, the horizon is the furthest your eyes can perceive(conical line of sight). It starts with bad crammer. Tell me does this sound right? 'And the happy couple sailed off over the sunset' or does this sou d better: 'the happy couple sailed off INTO the sunset' by changing the way humans speak, you are subconsciously using the 'power of creation' to alter reality
Well she's got so much in her head she wants to let out when you mention something, just part of her brain/personality type, lol. Can't really blame her too much. She at least stops talking when something wants to say something most of the time if you pay attention. It's no surprise someone like her might have a lot to say, lol.
Christina Gutierrez I have seen her in other documentaries. She has a very outgoing personality. Very happy and chatty. My impression is she is one of those people who you would want to have as a friend or a co-worker. Bubbly.
More people come forward and get tested for it after stories like this air. Original 60 Minutes story was in 2010 (it was a Sunday... *wink*), and Marilu Henner had just been confirmed as the 6th person. After the story, more people came forward, and I think there's about 50 confirmed cases now.
I was confirmed as subject # 8, about a year before HSAM folks were brought into the limelight with the 60 Minutes episode in December 2010. So much for thinking there were only 7 other people like me.
I think an IQ has a lot more to do with having a logical ability and much less to do with memory. An IQ test or a Mensa test does not require knowledge of any facts. It is more about recognizing a logical pattern and then being able to prove you figured it out by spitting out the next logical result that would come from that pattern. Like the guy said memory helps you in history but not so much in math.
@@jedijones I actually am similar to the people in the video and people wrongly assume I'm intelligent, lol. A good memory helps with way more than history though. Spelling, vocabulary, and most definitely pattern recognition. What you can't understand if you aren't like this is that if you remember almost everything, then you are taking in more data than average people. So you have a larger pool to draw from to find patterns that other people have to rely on problem solving to get. If you've taken one IQ test you've taken them all. I don't cognitively solve the patterns. I just (remember) how to solve them. I'm notoriously bad at math, but you have to realize the extent of this.Math problems especially in school get repeated, but most people don't remember this. I made it through math based on memory. Maybe it doesn't work this way for everyone , but for my brain pattern recognition is heavily dependent on memory. I always score between 125-127. I went to private school and they started teaching us "how to think" way back then . They prepare you with little tests each year. If I hadn't been raised with the exposure to so many different types of pattern tests I'd score lower on IQ tests because I'd have less patterns in my memory. I can also play chess based on memorized games and less cognitive ability. That being said playing chess intensively for a couple years does rewire the brain. A huge part of problem solving is having the data to sift through to solve it. We have the benefit of extraneous amounts of data which can also be a hassle in social situations.
@@joys8634 Yeah you are partially right. I don't remember dates I remember entire days. If you get what I'm trying to say. To me the date is irrelevant because my memory is accessed as a continuous stream. My memories are like a library full of 200 page paperbacks lol.I can go from the front of the library to the newer selections all the way back to the oldest book which was age 1yr for me. It was dark and that's when I realized the adults left me alone when I went to sleep in my crib. Up to that point I had no conscious self I remember thinking *it's dark where am I !!* I began to cry and my mother came and got me and then all the sudden my non-conscious brain met my memories and I became ....me. I realized I had seen the room before and I recognized the people. Even though they had cared for me for a year I didn't have the consciousness to recognize self and others , but once my memory kicked in I was able to. I talked early, walked early etc...It's all memory based. I don't make the same blunder twice that helps when you are learning to walk. I could definitely spell and recognize words by age 2 because I spoiled many a spelled out Christmas present. I can never read any books that have not yet arrived at the library hehe I'm not a fortune teller.
@@hydraelectricblue It doesn't seem like these people with total recall are Albert Einstein geniuses, good at athletics, especially inventive, creative novelist, or anything like that. What are your mental limitations and why? I was thinking that maybe your brain is so chock-full of past memories and kind of so focused on the present that it's not able to imagine the futuristic things as well.
I dont remember events outside my life as them. But my friends and family always ask me how can I remember things, like for example: I have memories from my First birthday, what I was wearing, cake design, how I felt about looking at strangers at my house. I can recall clothes I wore on 2005 during my summer vacation, what I used to do everyday, What I used to eat from breakfast to dinner, commercials on tv from those days. I thought this was normal for everyone, but people dont know how can I remember so many details.
I remember some things from my first year, like I remember thinking about the orange pink color of looking through my thin baby eyelids and I also remember the change in breathing through my mouth and alternating from nose breathing to mouth breathing, and that is supposed to happen by 6 months of age.
FanOfAyn I thought about doing that too but I couldn't remember to do it. Most of the time I don't even know what today's date is. I wish a had that memory. I can't remember hardly anything at all. Not even birthdays or vacations or places I have visited. Makes me sad. I even forgot that I have seen this subject before and I was going to study the calendar before but forgot about that.
Bristol, do you look at the date as soon as you wake up? How often throughout the day do you think about what date and/or day of the week it is? On most days I never even pay attention to what date it is, so naturally someone like me would never be able to recall my memories based on dates. My impression is people like you and the interviewees are continually associating the date and day with everything you're experiencing on that day. Association is the key to recall. Many people will experience a smell they haven't experienced in years and be able to recall where they were they last time they smelled it, because they were keenly aware of that smell when it previously happened. It seems like you and these others remain keenly aware of the current date and day all the time. Obviously it's become such a habit you may not be conscious of how much you're thinking about it. But I am sure that "paying attention," for lack of a better phrase, is key to creating memories. The key with some of you is that you seem to pay very careful attention to current dates. If you were stranded on a desert island and lost track of what date it was, how would that make you feel?
It’s not just about calendars lol. Picture this, what would somebody with this condition with no interest in dates whatsoever remember about the calendar? Probably quite a bit but not as much as others.
So, it's more like each day is a UA-cam video and everyday you make a new one. You can go back and watch the "video" when you want. It's as clear as if they are in the room at that second. Watching that particular UA-cam video. When you see, your eyes take things in. You are seeing everything they are seeing, and I am seeing, but their/my memory has more storage. Like having a small SD card compared to a big one. And you can flip through the videos like you would videos of weddings bdays or whatever. Let's say you have 50 family videos, you can scroll through them and see it in HD what is happening.. but we just don't need the phone or computer to do that. It feels like it's real because it once was for them. The feelings from then flash back into the brain and feel the same as they did. They see what they used to see exactly. And boy does it suck sometimes. Imagine if you can remember in detail every argument you had with someone as if you are watching a video of it on your phone or computer. The great things are there too but naturally people have anxiety and when that happens the brain goes to a "bad" place. What do you think about in your "bad" place? Fighting, abuse, rude people. Things that happened to you that you don't think are fair or replaying conversations you wish you would have said or done something differently. Now remember how you felt in that time. It might be fuzzy.. like watching one of the very first movies ever made in the world. Where these people see it in hd.. You have an image or a feeling of your life but maybe not in HD surround sound perfect picture "real."
I have this. That is how I got perfect grades in school. There is a disadvantage to this, talking to people that don't remember. It is so frustrating. I can remember and actually see it like it was an hour ago.
Danny S, since you told me I don't have Superior memory, then, I guess I don't. You must know more than the doctor who told me. So ... I must be just brilliant.
I'm four years late, but wanted to ask if you happen to see this (I have a 'great' memory but NOTHING like this) do you use it for sort of a vacation, "time travel to the past." Are the memories so powerful that you could see yourself talking to a friend say 12 years ago and hear every word both of you said within, say, a 20-minute conversatton.
I became good friends with Louise Owen in high school, and I thankfully could quickly meet with her for coffee on all 3 of my brief visits to NYC for musicology conferences, and also when she gave concerts at Biola University here in CA, when her father was the chair of the music department there: Louise Owens’s “photographic memory” is a trip, indeed. 🤔 I have also teased her for being a TV ⭐️, and I really did get her signature. 🙃
I feel like you can see that the gears are turning while they are recalling different things as people talk and as they are taking in and processing information to store in their minds for later
That's me! I've always been very good with dates, even what a person wore on a particular event, a patient's next doctor's appointment (before retiring as a RN)-without checking the computer-and have a history of excelling in mathematics. People I've known have always commented about my memory skills, but I've never thought that much about it, until now.
Impressive; but it's all memory of public events associated with Dates. Memory is much more; involving images; words, sounds, language....mathematics....
Wrong! They remember everything they experienced as if it was 10 seconds old. But interviewers are hacks and just resort to quizzing the people with this gift.
@Mick Obrien It is only a "gift" to people who (like YOU) will only see the interior of an elite university, when the cleaning crew is being called in (with a grease-monkey-type overall), for the performance of menial labor....
Today's parenting upbringing should be instinctively at a level where mother, father, adoptive parent, guardian, caretaker or provider have a way of raising infant, baby, toddler, young child and teenagers to grow, develop and mature into a strong, confident, healthy, successful, fun-loving independent adult that can joyfully make their way through life as a single married leading or simply just being a healthy, happy and productive part of a massive group which is society. 1 key is learning your body's capabilities and limitations by fully engaging with all the body senses to their extreme limits in the most efficient way that is humanly possible. Thus becoming physically fit, mentally sound and spiritually balanced being able to express physical freedom. For only at this level of body awareness does one actually have the self-control, discipline, loyalty, devotion, appreciation, respect, confidence and playful determination. To consciously acknowledge and physically participate in being true towards love, honor and the creation of life preferably in the way of marriage being a husband and wife mother and father. S.R.F.
I too have a musical memory. I can hear a song once, like as a child and remember the lyrics as a 40 year old. I also remember trying to walk as a baby. I remember so many things I thought everyone else did. My siblings and partners would make fun of me haha. Now I get that it’s something I was born with.
Sincerely knowing other people are like you having a similar physical or mental capabilities is secondary to maximizing on those physical and mental aspects to the highest degree that is humanly possible. Because the common, basic, average and normal mass majority of the population is living and dying having only used the smallest percentage of a fraction of the true potential they were first born with basically neglecting their own physical freedom throughout their entire life. Equally as gross negligent is the fact that this lack of comprehension conscious physical participation in a more meaningful lifestyle has been exacerbated by global pollution. And I'm willing to bet that these highly evolved memory capabilities that are within such people can effectively deal with those problems I have mentioned in much more. One of the key elements to this reality is for them to become their best personally. An example is by learning the body's capabilities and limitations through fully engaging with all the body senses to their extreme limits in the most efficient way that is humanly possible thus becoming physically fit, mentally sound, and spiritually balanced being able to express physical freedom which is primary for a person to be able to constantly consistently live up to the pleasure, potential and responsibility of femininity and masculinity. For only at this level of body awareness does one naturally have the self-control, discipline, loyalty, devotion, appreciation, respect confidence and playful determination to consciously acknowledge and physically participate in being true towards love, honor and the creation of life in the way of being married as a husband and wife mother and father. Option two although alone not quite as exciting physically, mentally, financially or spiritually beneficial rewarding nonetheless a quantum leap in progress compared to the way the mass majority of the population, practically since the dawn of creation has been living and dying off missing out on. More currently today specifically Donald Trump and like-minded. Who are lacking the physical and mental capabilities of being able to ground and pound slip and grip into paradise so intensely intimately that it gets the soul and spirit off with no negativity attached maybe even in the free and clear quite possible for a person to be a combination of all these best case scenario situations aspects possibilities combined into one. Unfortunately were at the polar opposite extreme point. Because millions of Americans and others support, follow and are willing to work for a romantic failure that is constantly and consistently aligning and surrounding himself with those who commit the weakest form of criminal conduct which is a sexual crime. These points have been scientifically classified and religiously verified. In layman's terms you cannot be a dominant gentleman or a superior father nor can you be a woman that is demonstrating high-class sophistication which is a form of femininity at its finest if you are soft, lazy, out of shape, overfed and undernourished self neglecting weaklings. That is always going along to get along assuming and presuming falsifying on one's own behalf taking whatever is most convenient instead of what is needed to make real physical, mental, financial and spiritual beneficial rewarding progress occur within each and every moment of life for the mass majority along with the rest.
The funniest part is the host acting as if we all dont know how memory works, it works the same as everyone else they just remember easily & we have to be reminded
I didn't know that this had a name. I can recall my whole life year after year and months it happend including some of the significant events in the news and what is weird is that i remember the date of death of people whose funeral I attended.
The average human being has all the memories stored. they just can't retrieve it. These 60 people (so far) have not only the memories stored, but can retrieve them. Human memories are not stored in one part of our brains but are distributed - sort of like a disk drive that is very fragmented. Someone should calculate how many peta peta peta peta peta peta bytes of information must reside in someone 90 years old in our brains.
Back in college, I was doing sophomore-level calculus. Forty-five years later, I wouldn't know how to begin solving such problems. I wonder if these savants have that sort of memory for technical processes. Or, for another example, the skill of skiing is really just "muscle memory", which is really just memory. Forty years after they last skied, would they still do fairly well, accounting for the loss of physical capability owing to aging?
There's a lot more to HSAM than instant recall of dates of recent news events. People who can instantly match dates with days of the week on which they occurred, are called "calendrics". Not all calendrics have hyperthymesia. As a confirmed lifelong sufferer of hyperthymesia since infanthood, I seriously doubt the four people profiled in this interview are genuine hyperthymesiacs. From what they spoke about, they simply remember certain current events that came from a fleeting interest in the subject matter. One of the many notable recalls I have is the names of landlords we rented from before I was ten years of age. That, and similar useless information, is what impedes the minds of true hyperthymesiacs. HSAM is a fairly recent (2006) but fascinating development in the field of behavioral psychology about which very little is yet known.
I remember Friday, July 13th 2001. I asked this girl for her number, and she said she had a boyfriend. I asked "do you like him" and she said "I love him" so I just left
I still have doubts about this. On the 60 MINUTES AUSTRALIA show the one lady said she didn't watch the Oscar's but yet she remembered everyone who won. And yet she didn't clarify that.
She didn't have to watch. Any mention of it in newspapers, 'TV Guide,' friends anything would be sufficient to provoke the memory. They don't claim that each and every memory is as powerful as the other. Also, USMC, they were double-blind tested by the top experts in the world over a period of days. Think they could fake that for up to 5 hours at a stretch?
To those who think that having this condition would work to their advantage, let me assure you (as subject number 8) that it does NOT. There is no benefit to being able to recall (more or less involuntarily) what do you were doing, thinking, feeling, etc. 20 + years after the fact and having minimal ability to let go and move on psychologically or otherwise. I still take pride that I was involved in this study, but I can definitively say that endless memory is an endless burden.
this is the most important ( or curious ) thing in my life and has been for at least the last 4 years or more ( I dont seem to have the good side of the bell curve ) strange, I'm actually living in irvine area rn... I should hit them up
What about the opposite, sdam ? Does anyone want to make a test so people know how good or bad their autobiographical memory is? I might have sdam but not extreme sdam.
Malk #armyforever i know that , i know there are advantages and disadvantages for this , and for me i can handle the disadvantages , u just imagine everthing on this tiny world can be understand and save in brain rooms and never forget , oh man that something .
I am not really seeing the individual benefit of possessing this memory. Actress Marilu Henner and she says, "I have those red shoes. Bought it on March 8, 1984. It was Wednesday I had pizza for lunch...". What good is it retaining that information in your head? The guy in the video says he is just average at school, though he thinks it helps him with history... Need to channel all that ability into retaining something useful.
They also remember all the bad things and cant forget them... I'd say he gives and takes in equal amounts till one proves themselves faithful of his gift. More that kind of logic...
The fact that there is a trick that can be learned to figure out and recite the day of the week any date falls on, past or future, and that these people claiming to have superior autobiographical memories seem to focus on that a lot, muddies their claims. You can google a number of sites that can teach you how to do this in your head. I don't doubt these people have excellent memories and use them to associate each day of their lives with events, and that skill is remarkable in itself, but I wish they would be more up front in explaining what they are doing. They can of course always deny that they know the trick and they are just able to remember each day of their lives and associated date though, and plenty of people will believe that's the the only way it can be done.
There is a whole documentary they actually had scientist try to call if they were bluffing through many test the ones here and a few others were proven to be a lot different and don't use mnemonic's devices and their brains are literally different than regular people as they proved through scans not to mention scientist are literally using them to help cure memory loss so its not just regular people.
I mean obviously those methods are very helpful, but wouldn’t they need to know exactly what memories they should use the memory tricks on? It’s not like the average person can use those tricks to remember every single day of their lives. So if you’re asking them abt a lot of different random days & they had no way to knowing what days you were going to be asking them abt prior to asking, I feel like it would be pretty easy to see whether they actually do have superior memories.
@@mz1386 Yes, that's why I acknowledge the ones that can quickly recall the day of the week a date falls on, but having a superior memory is not the only way to do that so it isn't all that impressive to me. The people that can actually remember facts about each day in their lives when tested on particular date of someone else's choosing is a completely separate and quite impressive skill.
would like to know what they ate back then. with all the bad stuff in food that helps destroy our brain there's no wonder we all cant remember much past a month.What makes there brain remember so good?
I have amazing memory but not the condition and let me think of my mom's birthday it was March 7 2022 Monday and i told my friends if she could sing the happy birthday song on audio message to my mom and she started singing and it was at lunch and so did my other friend. Idk it's just memory ig
Why are these people not geniuses? Like, you can tell they are clearly not the type that could figure things out like an Einstein. I was thinking, maybe they are not good at imagining things that could happen in the future (or how something could be made better and etcetera). Because their brain is too chock-full of memories, which makes them overly preoccupied with all their memories of the past and present (that it limits their capacity rationalize what could become of the future or how to produce it). What do you think?
Can i go on the show!! I am the completely opposite and this is terrible. I dont retain anything on my phone, the tv, radio. I have no memories of my kids. I havent found any answers or treamenet. I keep being reffered to speech therapy. All this started in December 2020 nothing sticks
I have the same thing didn't know it was a thing until I seen this video I can remember everything conversations songs movies since I was in diapers I can take u to every place I have ever been my mind never shuts off I have to take medicine to help turn my brain off o wish I could get some help I have memorized every song I have heard since 1950s I just thought it was Normal
they always seem to ask what happened in certain history , there was more going on around the world so if they didn't see or hear it ,, it's not in their head , i remember a lot of things and i think many do.
They have the ability to recall memories they've made. That doesn't mean they have the ability to learn and understand things better than other people.
Not related. That's more geared towards motivation. And the memories they can keep are typically personal, autobiographical, etc. They're not super geniuses.
I wonder if they were to pick a day to study a language by listening to phrases and translations then when they need to speak the language they can think of that date to help them speak. I think that's probably a reach, but it would be cool though.
The lady is literally reading off a sheet with a preplanned date and then lady parrots some insignificant pop culture headline... That isn't exactly impressive.
G The Entity go watch the special they did on this previously. They talk about the science, and the researchers put them through rigorous testing to confirm their abilities. In the words of Dr. McGaugh, “come spend a day with them and then see”
Wish the interviewers wouldnt cut her off so much.
RL 5324 yeah let her finish and give him the chance to chime in as well with his perspective, if the girl didn’t let him take some of the questions asked by the interviewer he may have never have gotten more than 3 words
having memory like this, it can be a curse when a person goes through tragedies. So it's a blessing that a person is gifted with forgetness. I have this curse and I try everyday to stop and distract my mind from remembering so I can help myself to survive.
I am the same way. It can be a curse. Mine is not remember dates. It is different. Past tragedies haunt me.
@@spooler7828 it is a curse . I have the same thing. How do you deal with it
Do you remember what date you wrote this comment?
The fact that she can have such a healthy & positive outlook despite all of the downsides, shows we really don't have any excuses for not being able to focus on the good & let go of the bad in our lives. If they can do it then we most certainly should be able to as well.
Jeffrey, your theory is enviable but historically inaccurate. People with serious hyperthymesia have recurring memories of the same events - whether traumatic or pleasant - with equal degrees of accuracy.
My aunt could remember the days and what time that things happened.decades ago.. . things that happened to me that I didn't even know..and what time it happened..
I didn't have the "highly" part but 5 years ago I did have a Superior Autobiographical Memory.
When I was younger I thought that everyone did. Sometimes it wasn't easy and I wondered what it would be like to live without it. I got very sick in 2015 and now that memory is gone. I still remember a great deal but not like I used to, not with the same experience that I used to and it hurts to be without that.
It's not always easy to have what we call a gift or an ability but treasure it because it is what makes you you and sometimes it can be taken away :(
@Jihod Albanna Thank you so much!
How far back do you remember, how young?
I believe I remember some things from my first year or two.
@@richtomlinson7090 That is early. From a child development point I think people usually start remembering around age 5. I'm not an expert that's just what I've heard.
My first memories go back before my 1st birthday but they get more vivid and more frequent after that.
Similar happened to me. Except not sick but faced something traumatic that ruined me. Made me forget many things to the point where I couldn’t remember the piano pieces I had easily memorized and could play for hours. I had to relearn how to play them. It was depressing.. I still beat myself up for it.
But that type of memory is coming back again where I can easily memorize things again 🙏
I can remember when I was 8 months old.
My parents were always alarmed at how good my memory was.
As Louise said her friend just really started paying attention to what was going on around him in every moment. That is great advice for everyone!
Live in the Now.
Be present in the Present.
A key to memory is ASSOCIATING what you want to remember with something else, and then hopefully associating that something with another thing on so on. Our memories are not linked in a logical fashion, but rather by associations which can be completely unrelated to each other logically. These people seem to live out their days associating everything that happens with the current date and day. The first thing they almost always recall is what day of the week the date was. This is a clever way of organizing memories, because you have a very easy path into past memories by simply looking at a list of dates. If instead the thing you're associating the day's events with is what smell is in the air or what you wore that day, you can't easily retrieve those entry points to trigger memories of the day. Organizing memories by date also lets you put your life events in chronological order which may be useful.
I have this, the day after the fellow who mentions his birthday on this had his 10th birthday, was the crash of a USAir jet near Pittsburgh. I remember I had a lot of homework that day that my parents thought was more then necessary. The following day, the day of the plane crash, was not as much homework but still a lot.
So I have this but not as gifted as the people on this show. The down side is I have PTSD and it is because I cannot forget all the painful memories in school. I have the emotions of the bad days and dates can be like, "Oh I have to remember this was that painful weekend 18 years ago in school". So it can be a blessing and a curse but with PTSD I wish I did not have this.
+myastroflight Nice job being a jerk. He stated "so i have this but not as gifted as the people on this show." I bet he remembers your stupid comment.
i have this, and i hate it, it affects every relationship that i had, its like every wrong that happened repeats ever and ever, same feeling, same argument, same noises, even if it happened 10 years ago
I have this but I would forget the odd day.
Conspiracy at home, as far as what I meant to the 'pikachu/binary thing'
Ever since this 'flat earth' thing now hit the Internet, people now say; 'over the horizon'...no one effing thing goes over the horizon, the horizon is the furthest your eyes can perceive(conical line of sight).
It starts with bad crammer. Tell me does this sound right? 'And the happy couple sailed off over the sunset' or does this sou d better: 'the happy couple sailed off INTO the sunset' by changing the way humans speak, you are subconsciously using the 'power of creation' to alter reality
I have the opposite. What can I do? I'm from Chicago I don't even retain walks or phone calls! I'm at a complete loss.
She doesnt let the guy talk
Well she's got so much in her head she wants to let out when you mention something, just part of her brain/personality type, lol. Can't really blame her too much. She at least stops talking when something wants to say something most of the time if you pay attention. It's no surprise someone like her might have a lot to say, lol.
Christina Gutierrez I have seen her in other documentaries. She has a very outgoing personality. Very happy and chatty. My impression is she is one of those people who you would want to have as a friend or a co-worker. Bubbly.
Haha...That's the memory I'm going to be left with!
Christina Gutierrez I noticed that to.
welcome to my life [hehehehehehe]
Sometimes I just have to think which day is today: is today Monday or Tuesday ?
I wonder how many people have this and just never realized it or came forward about it
More people come forward and get tested for it after stories like this air. Original 60 Minutes story was in 2010 (it was a Sunday... *wink*), and Marilu Henner had just been confirmed as the 6th person. After the story, more people came forward, and I think there's about 50 confirmed cases now.
I am on the spectrum of the opposite disorder, that I wish was covered.
I can remember more than things than most people... Always has been that way...
6:09 Poor guy. He probably wanted to talk.
I was confirmed as subject # 8, about a year before HSAM folks were brought into the limelight with the 60 Minutes episode in December 2010. So much for thinking there were only 7 other people like me.
What did Newton and Kant have in common, and what about the G spot? And who has ASD.
Thats really cool though its strange that these people aren't necessarily smart.
I think an IQ has a lot more to do with having a logical ability and much less to do with memory. An IQ test or a Mensa test does not require knowledge of any facts. It is more about recognizing a logical pattern and then being able to prove you figured it out by spitting out the next logical result that would come from that pattern. Like the guy said memory helps you in history but not so much in math.
@@jedijones I actually am similar to the people in the video and people wrongly assume I'm intelligent, lol. A good memory helps with way more than history though. Spelling, vocabulary, and most definitely pattern recognition. What you can't understand if you aren't like this is that if you remember almost everything, then you are taking in more data than average people. So you have a larger pool to draw from to find patterns that other people have to rely on problem solving to get. If you've taken one IQ test you've taken them all. I don't cognitively solve the patterns. I just (remember) how to solve them. I'm notoriously bad at math, but you have to realize the extent of this.Math problems especially in school get repeated, but most people don't remember this. I made it through math based on memory. Maybe it doesn't work this way for everyone , but for my brain pattern recognition is heavily dependent on memory. I always score between 125-127. I went to private school and they started teaching us "how to think" way back then . They prepare you with little tests each year. If I hadn't been raised with the exposure to so many different types of pattern tests I'd score lower on IQ tests because I'd have less patterns in my memory. I can also play chess based on memorized games and less cognitive ability. That being said playing chess intensively for a couple years does rewire the brain. A huge part of problem solving is having the data to sift through to solve it. We have the benefit of extraneous amounts of data which can also be a hassle in social situations.
@@joys8634 Yeah you are partially right. I don't remember dates I remember entire days. If you get what I'm trying to say. To me the date is irrelevant because my memory is accessed as a continuous stream. My memories are like a library full of 200 page paperbacks lol.I can go from the front of the library to the newer selections all the way back to the oldest book which was age 1yr for me. It was dark and that's when I realized the adults left me alone when I went to sleep in my crib. Up to that point I had no conscious self I remember thinking *it's dark where am I !!* I began to cry and my mother came and got me and then all the sudden my non-conscious brain met my memories and I became ....me. I realized I had seen the room before and I recognized the people. Even though they had cared for me for a year I didn't have the consciousness to recognize self and others , but once my memory kicked in I was able to. I talked early, walked early etc...It's all memory based. I don't make the same blunder twice that helps when you are learning to walk. I could definitely spell and recognize words by age 2 because I spoiled many a spelled out Christmas present. I can never read any books that have not yet arrived at the library hehe I'm not a fortune teller.
@@hydraelectricblue It doesn't seem like these people with total recall are Albert Einstein geniuses, good at athletics, especially inventive, creative novelist, or anything like that. What are your mental limitations and why? I was thinking that maybe your brain is so chock-full of past memories and kind of so focused on the present that it's not able to imagine the futuristic things as well.
Maybe they ARE super smart. You can't tell from this interview. They might have very high IQs.
Has anybody asked any one of these people about the Mandela effect?
omg I just asked this question right now, thought I was the only one to think to ask them, u beat me by a year :) Someone tweet them NOW
@@Gonk sameee
Wtf is that
@@lennarthagen3638 look it up. I don't have the time or the patience to explain it.
@@lennarthagen3638 look it up. I don't have the time or the patience to explain it. Be careful though, it can suck you in
I dont remember events outside my life as them. But my friends and family always ask me how can I remember things, like for example: I have memories from my First birthday, what I was wearing, cake design, how I felt about looking at strangers at my house. I can recall clothes I wore on 2005 during my summer vacation, what I used to do everyday, What I used to eat from breakfast to dinner, commercials on tv from those days. I thought this was normal for everyone, but people dont know how can I remember so many details.
I remember some things from my first year, like I remember thinking about the orange pink color of looking through my thin baby eyelids and I also remember the change in breathing through my mouth and alternating from nose breathing to mouth breathing, and that is supposed to happen by 6 months of age.
Yeah I didn't need pictures in fact I hated taking pictures. I could keep it in autobiographical memory.
I'm going to devote a few minutes everyday to studying the calendar.
FanOfAyn I thought about doing that too but I couldn't remember to do it. Most of the time I don't even know what today's date is. I wish a had that memory. I can't remember hardly anything at all. Not even birthdays or vacations or places I have visited. Makes me sad. I even forgot that I have seen this subject before and I was going to study the calendar before but forgot about that.
Bristol, do you look at the date as soon as you wake up? How often throughout the day do you think about what date and/or day of the week it is? On most days I never even pay attention to what date it is, so naturally someone like me would never be able to recall my memories based on dates. My impression is people like you and the interviewees are continually associating the date and day with everything you're experiencing on that day. Association is the key to recall. Many people will experience a smell they haven't experienced in years and be able to recall where they were they last time they smelled it, because they were keenly aware of that smell when it previously happened. It seems like you and these others remain keenly aware of the current date and day all the time. Obviously it's become such a habit you may not be conscious of how much you're thinking about it. But I am sure that "paying attention," for lack of a better phrase, is key to creating memories. The key with some of you is that you seem to pay very careful attention to current dates. If you were stranded on a desert island and lost track of what date it was, how would that make you feel?
It’s not just about calendars lol. Picture this, what would somebody with this condition with no interest in dates whatsoever remember about the calendar? Probably quite a bit but not as much as others.
So, it's more like each day is a UA-cam video and everyday you make a new one. You can go back and watch the "video" when you want. It's as clear as if they are in the room at that second. Watching that particular UA-cam video.
When you see, your eyes take things in. You are seeing everything they are seeing, and I am seeing, but their/my memory has more storage.
Like having a small SD card compared to a big one.
And you can flip through the videos like you would videos of weddings bdays or whatever. Let's say you have 50 family videos, you can scroll through them and see it in HD what is happening.. but we just don't need the phone or computer to do that.
It feels like it's real because it once was for them. The feelings from then flash back into the brain and feel the same as they did. They see what they used to see exactly.
And boy does it suck sometimes. Imagine if you can remember in detail every argument you had with someone as if you are watching a video of it on your phone or computer.
The great things are there too but naturally people have anxiety and when that happens the brain goes to a "bad" place.
What do you think about in your "bad" place? Fighting, abuse, rude people. Things that happened to you that you don't think are fair or replaying conversations you wish you would have said or done something differently.
Now remember how you felt in that time. It might be fuzzy.. like watching one of the very first movies ever made in the world. Where these people see it in hd..
You have an image or a feeling of your life but maybe not in HD surround sound perfect picture "real."
I have this. That is how I got perfect grades in school. There is a disadvantage to this, talking to people that don't remember. It is so frustrating. I can remember and actually see it like it was an hour ago.
I don't think you have super autobiographical memory as people who do don't get good grades.
Danny S, since you told me I don't have Superior memory, then, I guess I don't. You must know more than the doctor who told me. So ... I must be just brilliant.
Lies
You mind sharing your techniques with people then. Please do not say, it just comes to me.
I'm four years late, but wanted to ask if you happen to see this (I have a 'great' memory but NOTHING like this) do you use it for sort of a vacation, "time travel to the past."
Are the memories so powerful that you could see yourself talking to a friend say 12 years ago and hear every word both of you said within, say, a 20-minute conversatton.
Man I would love to interview or just talk to one of these people
I became good friends with Louise Owen in high school, and I thankfully could quickly meet with her for coffee on all 3 of my brief visits to NYC for musicology conferences, and also when she gave concerts at Biola University here in CA, when her father was the chair of the music department there: Louise Owens’s “photographic memory” is a trip, indeed. 🤔 I have also teased her for being a TV ⭐️, and I really did get her signature. 🙃
I feel like you can see that the gears are turning while they are recalling different things as people talk and as they are taking in and processing information to store in their minds for later
I am one of them, but sometimes is not easy, you suffer and almost not sleep thinking.
That's me! I've always been very good with dates, even what a person wore on a particular event, a patient's next doctor's appointment (before retiring as a RN)-without checking the computer-and have a history of excelling in mathematics. People I've known have always commented about my memory skills, but I've never thought that much about it, until now.
joannie1q2w3e what happened on December 8th, 1847?
I really need this condition
Yeah, me too
Omg me too.(i want this condition really bad)
I have it "partially" and not sure if you want to, you remember almost every bad thing that happens to you
Impressive; but it's all memory of public events associated with Dates. Memory is much more; involving images; words, sounds, language....mathematics....
Wrong! They remember everything they experienced as if it was 10 seconds old. But interviewers are hacks and just resort to quizzing the people with this gift.
@Mick Obrien
It is only a "gift" to people who (like YOU) will only see the interior of an elite university, when the cleaning crew is being called in (with a grease-monkey-type overall), for the performance of menial labor....
Huh? I didn't say it was a gift... Wait.. I'm confused. I don't understand what you're trying to say.
stop being a hater just enjoy that someone can do what others once considered impossible you tweeb
Wrong
It is true, you remember the bad and those you lost.
I remember everything good or bad. I am not perfect on my dates.
Danny S, I remember dates, days of the week and time. Association with numbers.
I was born on the 2/3/1990 I remember being sat in front of the fire at my auntie's house on 25/12/1991
Today's parenting upbringing should be instinctively at a level where mother, father, adoptive parent, guardian, caretaker or provider have a way of raising infant, baby, toddler, young child and teenagers to grow, develop and mature into a strong, confident, healthy, successful, fun-loving independent adult that can joyfully make their way through life as a single married leading or simply just being a healthy, happy and productive part of a massive group which is society. 1 key is learning your body's capabilities and limitations by fully engaging with all the body senses to their extreme limits in the most efficient way that is humanly possible. Thus becoming physically fit, mentally sound and spiritually balanced being able to express physical freedom. For only at this level of body awareness does one actually have the self-control, discipline, loyalty, devotion, appreciation, respect, confidence and playful determination. To consciously acknowledge and physically participate in being true towards love, honor and the creation of life preferably in the way of marriage being a husband and wife mother and father. S.R.F.
This must be fire for exams
Aparently everyone has this now
They asked all the date questions but they should've asked them what they had to eat that day and see what they say.
I too have a musical memory. I can hear a song once, like as a child and remember the lyrics as a 40 year old. I also remember trying to walk as a baby. I remember so many things I thought everyone else did. My siblings and partners would make fun of me haha. Now I get that it’s something I was born with.
Sincerely knowing other people are like you having a similar physical or mental capabilities is secondary to maximizing on those physical and mental aspects to the highest degree that is humanly possible. Because the common, basic, average and normal mass majority of the population is living and dying having only used the smallest percentage of a fraction of the true potential they were first born with basically neglecting their own physical freedom throughout their entire life. Equally as gross negligent is the fact that this lack of comprehension conscious physical participation in a more meaningful lifestyle has been exacerbated by global pollution. And I'm willing to bet that these highly evolved memory capabilities that are within such people can effectively deal with those problems I have mentioned in much more. One of the key elements to this reality is for them to become their best personally. An example is by learning the body's capabilities and limitations through fully engaging with all the body senses to their extreme limits in the most efficient way that is humanly possible thus becoming physically fit, mentally sound, and spiritually balanced being able to express physical freedom which is primary for a person to be able to constantly consistently live up to the pleasure, potential and responsibility of femininity and masculinity. For only at this level of body awareness does one naturally have the self-control, discipline, loyalty, devotion, appreciation, respect confidence and playful determination to consciously acknowledge and physically participate in being true towards love, honor and the creation of life in the way of being married as a husband and wife mother and father. Option two although alone not quite as exciting physically, mentally, financially or spiritually beneficial rewarding nonetheless a quantum leap in progress compared to the way the mass majority of the population, practically since the dawn of creation has been living and dying off missing out on. More currently today specifically Donald Trump and like-minded. Who are lacking the physical and mental capabilities of being able to ground and pound slip and grip into paradise so intensely intimately that it gets the soul and spirit off with no negativity attached maybe even in the free and clear quite possible for a person to be a combination of all these best case scenario situations aspects possibilities combined into one. Unfortunately were at the polar opposite extreme point. Because millions of Americans and others support, follow and are willing to work for a romantic failure that is constantly and consistently aligning and surrounding himself with those who commit the weakest form of criminal conduct which is a sexual crime. These points have been scientifically classified and religiously verified. In layman's terms you cannot be a dominant gentleman or a superior father nor can you be a woman that is demonstrating high-class sophistication which is a form of femininity at its finest if you are soft, lazy, out of shape, overfed and undernourished self neglecting weaklings. That is always going along to get along assuming and presuming falsifying on one's own behalf taking whatever is most convenient instead of what is needed to make real physical, mental, financial and spiritual beneficial rewarding progress occur within each and every moment of life for the mass majority along with the rest.
They kept interrupting both of them!! How rude
The funniest part is the host acting as if we all dont know how memory works, it works the same as everyone else they just remember easily & we have to be reminded
I didn't know that this had a name. I can recall my whole life year after year and months it happend including some of the significant events in the news and what is weird is that i remember the date of death of people whose funeral I attended.
These guys would be amazing agents
The average human being has all the memories stored. they just can't retrieve it. These 60 people (so far) have not only the memories stored, but can retrieve them. Human memories are not stored in one part of our brains but are distributed - sort of like a disk drive that is very fragmented. Someone should calculate how many peta peta peta peta peta peta bytes of information must reside in someone 90 years old in our brains.
Back in college, I was doing sophomore-level calculus. Forty-five years later, I wouldn't know how to begin solving such problems. I wonder if these savants have that sort of memory for technical processes. Or, for another example, the skill of skiing is really just "muscle memory", which is really just memory. Forty years after they last skied, would they still do fairly well, accounting for the loss of physical capability owing to aging?
There's a lot more to HSAM than instant recall of dates of recent news events. People who can instantly match dates with days of the week on which they occurred, are called "calendrics". Not all calendrics have hyperthymesia. As a confirmed lifelong sufferer of hyperthymesia since infanthood, I seriously doubt the four people profiled in this interview are genuine hyperthymesiacs. From what they spoke about, they simply remember certain current events that came from a fleeting interest in the subject matter. One of the many notable recalls I have is the names of landlords we rented from before I was ten years of age. That, and similar useless information, is what impedes the minds of true hyperthymesiacs. HSAM is a fairly recent (2006) but fascinating development in the field of behavioral psychology about which very little is yet known.
Is it just me or do the CBS show host seem a little desperate in their questioning / requests to “get” what the guest have for themselves ...
This is why Podcasts outshine these tv shows
Can they remember the contents of a book verbatim? How different is this from eidetic or "photographic memory"?
The South Park episode, "Scott Tenorman Must Die" aired two days after I was born July 11, 2001, this was a Wednesday.
+Bradley Post Funny episode. Hey scott you wanna come to my chili con carnival? Everyone's gonna be there.
timjthru Mm tears, yummy!
I remember Friday, July 13th 2001. I asked this girl for her number, and she said she had a boyfriend. I asked "do you like him" and she said "I love him" so I just left
@@ChrisWilliams-ls7ueI remember the twin towers got taken out on the 9th of November
They say those folks are highly organized as well...school notes, the clothes in their closets, etc. It's sort of a personality trait.
I still have doubts about this. On the 60 MINUTES AUSTRALIA show the one lady said she didn't watch the Oscar's but yet she remembered everyone who won. And yet she didn't clarify that.
She didn't have to watch. Any mention of it in newspapers, 'TV Guide,' friends anything would be sufficient to provoke the memory. They don't claim that each and every memory is as powerful as the other.
Also, USMC, they were double-blind tested by the top experts in the world over a period of days. Think they could fake that for up to 5 hours at a stretch?
@@Allan-et5ig
Could be
Of course …people talk about the oscars, its on the news after etc.
To those who think that having this condition would work to their advantage, let me assure you (as subject number 8) that it does NOT. There is no benefit to being able to recall (more or less involuntarily) what do you were doing, thinking, feeling, etc. 20 + years after the fact and having minimal ability to let go and move on psychologically or otherwise. I still take pride that I was involved in this study, but I can definitively say that endless memory is an endless burden.
So interesting and impressive!
Awesome! I'm the same way...I can remember dates, times places, etc going way back....I didn't know there was a name for this...Cool!
I wish i can have this ability
this is the most important ( or curious ) thing in my life and has been for at least the last 4 years or more ( I dont seem to have the good side of the bell curve ) strange, I'm actually living in irvine area rn... I should hit them up
I want to know what they think about the MAndella Effect? someone ask them
I wonder if their entire life will flash before them again when they die.
I don't know. But U sure are pretty!! 😍
What about the opposite, sdam ? Does anyone want to make a test so people know how good or bad their autobiographical memory is? I might have sdam but not extreme sdam.
if its humanly possible, definitely I think Bach and Mozart had it,
Cool now how do i get one
Why did they call it a disorder? It's not a disorder
No. It's a curse.
I'm asking Allah to give this ability to remember thing directly ...
ameen
You don’t want it.
Imagine just something bad happens to you but you can't forget it
Forgetting is something that we should be thankful about it
Malk #armyforever i know that , i know there are advantages and disadvantages for this , and for me i can handle the disadvantages , u just imagine everthing on this tiny world can be understand and save in brain rooms and never forget , oh man that something .
My son have from when he is 2 years old.
I am not really seeing the individual benefit of possessing this memory. Actress Marilu Henner and she says, "I have those red shoes. Bought it on March 8, 1984. It was Wednesday I had pizza for lunch...". What good is it retaining that information in your head? The guy in the video says he is just average at school, though he thinks it helps him with history... Need to channel all that ability into retaining something useful.
The application is for research for cure for Alzheimer's Disease
I am 100% sure that I have this
Aliens
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The Lord sure is amazing.
God loves you and Jesus saves.
They also remember all the bad things and cant forget them...
I'd say he gives and takes in equal amounts till one proves themselves faithful of his gift.
More that kind of logic...
Nope just genetics, no fantasy creatures involved
The fact that there is a trick that can be learned to figure out and recite the day of the week any date falls on, past or future, and that these people claiming to have superior autobiographical memories seem to focus on that a lot, muddies their claims. You can google a number of sites that can teach you how to do this in your head. I don't doubt these people have excellent memories and use them to associate each day of their lives with events, and that skill is remarkable in itself, but I wish they would be more up front in explaining what they are doing. They can of course always deny that they know the trick and they are just able to remember each day of their lives and associated date though, and plenty of people will believe that's the the only way it can be done.
There is a whole documentary they actually had scientist try to call if they were bluffing through many test the ones here and a few others were proven to be a lot different and don't use mnemonic's devices and their brains are literally different than regular people as they proved through scans not to mention scientist are literally using them to help cure memory loss so its not just regular people.
I mean obviously those methods are very helpful, but wouldn’t they need to know exactly what memories they should use the memory tricks on? It’s not like the average person can use those tricks to remember every single day of their lives. So if you’re asking them abt a lot of different random days & they had no way to knowing what days you were going to be asking them abt prior to asking, I feel like it would be pretty easy to see whether they actually do have superior memories.
@@mz1386 Yes, that's why I acknowledge the ones that can quickly recall the day of the week a date falls on, but having a superior memory is not the only way to do that so it isn't all that impressive to me. The people that can actually remember facts about each day in their lives when tested on particular date of someone else's choosing is a completely separate and quite impressive skill.
I must have that on a low level.
would like to know what they ate back then. with all the bad stuff in food that helps destroy our brain there's no wonder we all cant remember much past a month.What makes there brain remember so good?
They should have had them answer the days at the same time
I thought people with HSAM have life span of like 20-30 years?
Wtf
I have amazing memory but not the condition and let me think of my mom's birthday it was March 7 2022 Monday and i told my friends if she could sing the happy birthday song on audio message to my mom and she started singing and it was at lunch and so did my other friend. Idk it's just memory ig
@@abel6320 thank you and also thank you for letting me know your high on weed. :D
7:45
Why are these people not geniuses? Like, you can tell they are clearly not the type that could figure things out like an Einstein. I was thinking, maybe they are not good at imagining things that could happen in the future (or how something could be made better and etcetera). Because their brain is too chock-full of memories, which makes them overly preoccupied with all their memories of the past and present (that it limits their capacity rationalize what could become of the future or how to produce it). What do you think?
Can i go on the show!! I am the completely opposite and this is terrible. I dont retain anything on my phone, the tv, radio. I have no memories of my kids. I havent found any answers or treamenet. I keep being reffered to speech therapy. All this started in December 2020 nothing sticks
Oh wow. So this is what its called!!
I remember everything...And it’s not very pleasant.. I’d rather not remember at all... 😔
Remember Charlie Rose?
That was good. :D
I have it too
How old are you?
I have the same thing didn't know it was a thing until I seen this video I can remember everything conversations songs movies since I was in diapers I can take u to every place I have ever been my mind never shuts off I have to take medicine to help turn my brain off o wish I could get some help I have memorized every song I have heard since 1950s I just thought it was Normal
I do believe I have this. But I'm also autistic.
before the days of computer and google, they use people like them to record history.
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and here i am trying to forget everything
Literally every Virgo that ever lived.
I dont have this tho...
I mean I got good memory but no THIS good...
Ask her about a date in the future.
they always seem to ask what happened in certain history , there was more going on around the world so if they didn't see or hear it ,, it's not in their head , i remember a lot of things and i think many do.
I have
What about education are they superior students
jesus christ they're so big brain
What date was Charlie Rose fired from CBS hahahahaa
*Not that I remember* Is a forbidden excuse in this case lol
I wish i could do that.
I thought everyone thinks like HSAM!
I've personally met more than 65, it's nothing special. Frankly, it sucks.
I can do it
and Tin tin be 7
Is this evolution>
i think it is a hoax.. if it wasn't they could possibly learn all the languages in the world in 10 years. that's just one example
They have the ability to recall memories they've made. That doesn't mean they have the ability to learn and understand things better than other people.
Not related. That's more geared towards motivation. And the memories they can keep are typically personal, autobiographical, etc. They're not super geniuses.
Their recall of memories are based on events, hence part of the name, autobiographical.
I wonder if they were to pick a day to study a language by listening to phrases and translations then when they need to speak the language they can think of that date to help them speak. I think that's probably a reach, but it would be cool though.
Not a hoax...my aunt has told me times and dates.. of anything I asked
I sense bs
It is an awesome gift - er - mental disorder
jeez these interviewers are just the worst
The lady is literally reading off a sheet with a preplanned date and then lady parrots some insignificant pop culture headline...
That isn't exactly impressive.
G The Entity go watch the special they did on this previously. They talk about the science, and the researchers put them through rigorous testing to confirm their abilities. In the words of Dr. McGaugh, “come spend a day with them and then see”