>Rebecca Sharrock is one of the few people with Hyperthymesia. She can remember virtually every day of her life with vivid detail.For the human race to evolve further, people with this trait should have their genes propagated in an eugenics program.
>>17028094>>For the human race to evolve further, people with this trait should have their genes propagated in an eugenics program.Agreed..100% agree.Pseudopsychologists and junk "criminal profile psychoanalysts" like to correlate psychosis or psychotic tendency to vivid, detailed, or voluminous memory, claiming people go crazy if they remember too much or they can't let this go, but I'm sure the truth is just the opposite.
Imagine if men all actually remembered getting part of their dick chopped off.
>>17028094>get asked what happened on some specific day 10 years ago>just make shit up because it's not like they can prove you wrong>impress a bunch of dumb redditors
>>17028158>shit yourself in agony and terror after your mother abandons you to strange and unknown men who mutilate you for meaningless reasons that are beyond your infant comprehension >”teehee he did a poopoo in da operation awww”Death to foids
>>17028094The human brain is a plastic generalist prediction engine. When someone behaves like this it's because some adult patted her on the head for remembering accurately something that happened yesterday, and then she obsessively-compulsively kept structuring her cognition around keeping a little diary in her head.Like people who hoard dolls or memorize 5,000 song lyrics it comes at a price when that attention is not being spent elsewhere.
>>17028174There's not one single human brain.
>>17028208Ok that's a good point but prove it because as far as I know there might be
>>17028094She's lying
>>17028250About remembering things from 12 days old, no doubt
>>17028254What is yalls earliest memory?I can remember being stuck in the bathtub with cold water and crying for someone to get me out of the tub. I can remember being i my parents room alone and standing up in my crib before I could walk and looking at my reflection in the mirror and seeing myself for the first time. I remember my mom holding my hand and helping me or teaching me to walk. Other than that, everything else is a haze.Mayhaps I do and mayhaps I dont remember what I had for breakfast yesterday.
>>17028094>>17028152This is a rather mixed blessing. You will never be able to forgive or distance yourself from bad experience, no matter how much you want. I am not at her level but my memory is good enough that I bear decades old grudges that last well past me reading their obituaries.
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I remember when actress Marilu Henner claimed to have perfect recall. She went on talk shows and they didn’t even try to seriously test her. Instead, she merely would say with wide eyes and shocked face that she recalled her tenth birthday and good golly she even recalled—gasp!—there were ten candles on the cake and that she further recalled—gasp!—that the cake had happy birthday written on it.
>>17028094I have a pretty long memory too, my earliest memory thoughever is age 2. Its crazy that she remembered something from being only 12 days old. In theory the memories from your earliest years are still recorded in your hippocampus, they are just buried deeply underneath all the memories of growing up and adulthood. I wonder if it would be possible to access the memories with drugs or electrical stimulation...
>>17028094Does she have children?>>17028158Jokes aside, we would better understand childhood, development etc, we would treat kids better.
>>17028333>I haveNobody cares. She remembers almost single day. You don't remember what weather was on Monday 3 weeks ago.
>>17028279I remember a really weird dream I had when I was 3 or 4. The dream was I was looking out the window in my bedroom at night and suddenly I was frozen in place and the moon went down and the sun came up all in like two seconds. Scared the shit out of me because it felt so real. I still remember it like it happened yesterday
so we have unlimited space for memories?
>>17028161exactly.
>>17028279My 4th birthday I guess
>>17028279>>17028451>>17028492The truth about old memories like this that people are instinctively unwilling to accept is that the memory you have is nearly 100% fabricated. Out of like 1000 details you could try to recall in a vivid memory, maybe like 2 of them will be actually accurate. The problem isn't just forgetfulness, but how great the human mind is at making stuff up. It's a lot more efficient for your brain to just make up random noise to fill in gaps when you try to """remember""" something instead of bothering with all the nonsense of actually storing information. Every time you remember an old scene, your brain will misremember or have forgotten something and fill it in with some nonsense, so a vivid memory you've reflected back on many times is likely a Ship of Theseus with nothing remaining of the original.
>>17028279I remember being 3-4 and my parents talking about 9/11 a few months after it happened.
>>17028279>I can remember being i my parents room alone and standing up in my crib before I could walk and looking at my reflection in the mirror and seeing myself for the first time.My condolences on the deep retardation you undoubtedly must be suffering from as such early memories would have been overwritten in a normal developed child
>>17028094It wouldn't work after the masses filtered it down. The body was incorporated from the cross-section of souls in the spatial vinicinty. They have short lives, they change between species, and they are given a lesson from time.
>>17028094I brought up the memory of being born up when I had clarity of vision later in my life.Following it, you are a small, see-through person that goes up to a small physical body with a personality that needs to grow. Being near and sharing information creates an entanglement. I stuck my head out of the person to take a quick look. It created a kick with the physical person, and I remember my mother thinking, "Don't ever do that again," due to feeling the movement. Some people leave the body for a longer period, and it miscarriages the fetus.
>>17028094I can only agree, but imagine the vivid heart-break and humiliation flashbacks though
Assuming this is possible, I wonder whether there is a tradeoff. I've heard the theory that forgetting details is important for enabling abstractiong and chunking.
>>17028747I'd like to hear more about that theory. My memory is above average and so is my ability to abstract.
>>17028279I have like two memories from preschool, one when I was taking a piss and someone walked in on me, and another where some kid put playdoh on his head in the form of a braid and walked around saying "I'm a guuurrrll"
>>17028767I just checked my notes and apparently originally got this claim from "Why we sleep" by Matthew Walker, which apparently is not of high quality: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/After looking around some more, it appears that there is at least a kernel of truth in it.https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/37/3/464.full.pdfhttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01021/fullThough I think nothing I found actually suggests that forgetting details facilitates abstraction. I guess in theory you could have an archive of details as well as lossy generalizations in mind, as long as these don't compete for recall at the wrong moment.
>>17028280We will simply combine this with the mutations of Jo Cameron so that people do not have any anxiety or despair.
>>17028161Hey, cool it with the antisemitism.
>>17028279for me it is either being bathed in the sink and or following my mother into the church restroom because she was watching someone else's kid.roughly between 1.5 and 2 years oldnothing specific or detailed.I don't remember meeting the first family dog for the first time, even though there is a picture, about 2-2.5 years old when that happened.I do remember wanting a TMNT shirt while in a store a few weeks before that and being proud to wear it.but my memories that young are random and sporadic>>17028504not always true
>>17028398actually i do remember the weather 3 weeks ago, like I can remember what the weather at the start and end of the week was like in the last maybe 12 weeksNow, i don't remember what food I ate during those days and she probably does
>>17028823It's true though. Think about it. Remembering what you did in excrutiating detail isnt really a core function of the brain, which is only focused on survival or at least minimizing prediction errors. Inferring abstract patterns of where to be and what to do is much more important than recall, and also takes up much less storage. Human infants have very little agency of their own, they are mostly just being carried around, so there's little use for the brain to focus on remembering at that point.
>>17028823>https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01021/fullFrom the abstract:>However, the relevant features were presented on one of two learning schedules: massed or interleaved.OK, we have massed or interleaved.>At a series of immediate and delayed tests, learners were asked to generalize to novel exemplars that contained massed features, interleaved features, or all novel features.And now we have massed features, interleaved features, or all novel features? Seems disorganized.>The results of this experiment revealed that, at an immediate test, learners more readily generalized based upon features presented on a massed schedule. Conversely, at a delayed test, learners more readily generalized based upon features presented on an interleaved schedule, until information was no longer readily retrievable from memory. These findings suggest that forgetting and retrieval processes engendered by the temporal dynamics of learning are used as a basis of abstraction, implicating forgetting as a central mechanism of generalization.This omits another well known effect as a possible reason, that the human mind reorganizes knowledge given time, and that does not relate even remotely to forgetting, quite to the contrary.
>>17028094why the fuck was she still in a crib at 12 years old??
>>17029785That was 12 DAYS old.
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence... unless it comes to obviously fake girl boss genius stories
>>17028280I am like this. I don't remember everything, but I definitely can remember back to being about 1 year old. I can't give exact days and times, but I can get the month and year. I don't have a "memory palace", more like if I want to remember something I sort of "travel" to that place and there I can access all the memories associated with that place. I wasn't ever taught explicitly to do this, and apparently it's sort of odd for someone to structure their memories this way without being taught.
>>17028280Any trouble forgiving yourself for your mistakes?
