As an aphantastic person I am on the opposite end I guess.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hey now you are still a phantastic person!
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Hehe, nice. Haven’t heard that one before.
Never heard of this before, and it’s a pretty cool topic to delve into. I also stumbled upon hyperphantasia which sounds absolutely incredible. Imagination so vivid it’s basically like real seeing.
“It’s better than sex!”
You can still have an eidedic memory (as mentioned by Brenstar).
A photographic memory is just a perfect visual memory.
I tried training it once. It didn’t go well. It turns out I’m mostly aphantastic as well. I can still have fully visualised dreams however, which is always odd.
Ted Ed recently made a video on it and they cover how dreaming could worl. I would summarise it… but I zoned out in that part of the video
Hyperthymesia is the medical term
An overactive hypothalamus which holds onto all memories in an obsessive manner regardless of their relevancy or emotional content, cooperating with the hippocampus.
If the brain were a person, a hyperthymesic brain has OCD.
I would know, I have one.
The name of the Buy Mode music of the 2001 Life Simulation Game The Sims is named “Mall Rat” by Jerry Martin.
:)
Hyperthymesia seems to be more autobiographical, rather than a total recall of memory.
That wiki page goes on to explain an example of someone who could perfectly remember a specific day in their past, but were unable to recall what their interviewers were wearing after spending a day with them.
