Actress Marilu Henner of “Taxi’ fame has a highly superior autobiographical memory. 60 Minutes did a feature on this condition being studied at University of California-Irvine and Henner was included in the study.
She likened recovering the memories to going into a portion of her brain that had CDs and she’d pull out the one that stored that particular memory.
I listened to a Sirius XM show with Henner and it was interesting to hear her describe different songs from the 70’s. Each song brought about details that no one else could possibly remember. I wonder if it is as much a curse sometimes as a blessing.
Great detective novel (apparently it was the first of a series so I need to read the subsequent ones now - if I can remember to do so):
https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Man-David-Baldacci/dp/1455559806
Amos Decker’s life changed forever—twice.
The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to play in the NFL. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field forever, and left him with an improbable side effect—he can forget nothing.