How common is having a photographic memory?

[AgaBoogaBoo]

What causes this?

 

[dsfunk]

Originally posted by: jjsole
I have a photographic memory, but everything is stored in .jpg so I lose a fair amount of detail.

 

[OverVolt]

Originally posted by: dsfunk

Originally posted by: jjsole
I have a photographic memory, but everything is stored in .jpg so I lose a fair amount of detail.

lucky, i am stuck with non-animated .gifs

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Triumph

Originally posted by: Eli
Wait though..

Having a photographic memory is having the ability to remember past memories with pictures, right?

It's not just having a good memory.

How about being able to visualize things, in general? Like, I can visualize in slow motion a single cylinder 4-cycle engine working, just like watching an animated GIF. I can blow the parts up and draw assembly lines in my head, just as if I was looking at a parts breakdown.

Is that considered "photographic" memory? It's hard to imagine that people can't do that.. I used to think that's just the way it was, everyone was like that.. when I was younger.

Yeah, that's not really anything special...sorry.

Huh?

 

[IEC]

I have a photographic memory. Unfortunately, the lens cover is stuck on.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I don't remember.

 

[BMdoobieW]

I don't remember a thing! Who in the what now?

 

[sharkeeper]

What causes this?

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[slpaulson]

In high school they had this Japanese man come into one of our classes who could seriously look at a 10 (I'm not sure the exact number) digit number for a second, remember it, then multiply it by whatever number you ask in a matter of seconds. I think he could also do square roots.

He says he pictures an abacus in his head when he does it.

 

[SithSolo1]

I dunno what I have. If I study for days at a time and then take a test I will flunk it without fail yet I can read massive amounts of data and spit it back out within a few hours almost verbatim.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

If I do it's a rare occurance. When I was two or three years old, memorizing a map of the United States was one of my favorite things to do. After countless hours of just staring at that thing, eventually an image of it was practically burned into my memory. Probably twelve years later we were all in the car on a long drive, quizzing each other on various things. When it was my turn to be asked a question, it was "What is the capital of Iowa?". For some reason I couldn't think of what it was, but all of the sudden I "see" the United States map and just read it. I don't think it worked any other times though.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Having a photographic memory SUCKS when you looking for things- I can 'remember' seeing the object I'm looking for in all these different places, and I can't tell which 'memories' are real, and which were fabricated by my photgraphic memory.

 

[daniel1113]

One of the ways I remember information for a test is by recalling the page and position within the page that the information is located. I can usually picture the general layout of each page, although I can't picture the actual words and equations.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
I have photographic memory I just don't have any film.

:thumbsup:
same here
LOL.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: JoeKing
I've got a pornographic memory. How common is that?

about as common as having a Y chromosome?

Originally posted by: Eli
How about being able to visualize things, in general? Like, I can visualize in slow motion a single cylinder 4-cycle engine working, just like watching an animated GIF. I can blow the parts up and draw assembly lines in my head, just as if I was looking at a parts breakdown.

So's that!

naw, but 3d visualization isn't considered "photographic memory". "Photographic memory" basically means you only have to look at things ONCE, for a split second, and you can remember every detail. Some people remember more detail than others at a glance, and some people are able to remember every detail after studying it for a while, but neither of these things are considered true "photographic" memory.

 

[Azuen]

I forgot what the topic was about in the time taken to move my eyes to the reply box

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Triumph

Originally posted by: Eli
Wait though..

Having a photographic memory is having the ability to remember past memories with pictures, right?

It's not just having a good memory.

How about being able to visualize things, in general? Like, I can visualize in slow motion a single cylinder 4-cycle engine working, just like watching an animated GIF. I can blow the parts up and draw assembly lines in my head, just as if I was looking at a parts breakdown.

Is that considered "photographic" memory? It's hard to imagine that people can't do that.. I used to think that's just the way it was, everyone was like that.. when I was younger.

Yeah, that's not really anything special...sorry.

Huh?

Your visualization skill, it's not really anything special. Most people I imagine can do that. Sorry.