I think my dad remembered everyone he had ever met. I did not inherit the trait.
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Kool.
AI b4 AI.
Wikipedia: "Henner has hyperthymesia or total recall memory; she can remember specific details of virtually every day of her life since she was a child.[6][7]"
Her ability sounds like something tgat would make for a good movie or Twilight Zone episode.
I’m pretty much face blind (Prosopagnosia). Everyone looks the same to me. On more than one occasion, I have seen my reflection in a store window and not known that it was me.
I was a flight attendant for over 25 years. I remembered passengers faces like crazy. One woman ordered a white wine and I told her we still had the red wine she enjoyed. It was over a year ago and I knew what seat she was in and what she was wearing. She was speechless and did go with the red wine.
I know a guy with the opposite issue, he can’t remember faces at all. At all. Like he knows a certain person wears a certain thing, somebody comes along wearing that thing, he assumes it’s them.
I am the opposite of this. I have a terrible facial memory. I can remember facts and figures that I read years ago, but can talk to someone for an hour and not recognize them an hour later.
“Suoer-Recogniser” are a rare breed.
Tastes like chicken.
Don’t casinos hire people like this to bounce cheats and card counters?
Lately I’ve been thinking about developing the knowledge to place the time and locations of old photos. I think that would be a fun hobby.
My maternal grandfather was that way. He was an attorney and could recall practically everything that he did on cases many years later.
I’m pretty proud of my 93.5 memory retention rate. Cool, Huh?
How many people do you know that can brag of a 95.3 memory retention rate?
A former co-worker’s son has this gift. I met him one time for less than a minute when he was in high school and was emptying trash-cans at the office one Saturday. Six years later I was in a Home Depot in a different city and a young guy called out my name. I had no clue who he was until he introduced himself.
Later I told his mom about it and she said he never forgets a face.
A professor in one of my first 2 years of college required subjects, taught a Psy I and a Psy II courses. He was really good, and one of his subjects for a few lectures was: “Cases of people with acquired savant syndrome.”
His lectures on this subject included musicians, artists, solo sports or 1 on 1 sports like wrestling, boxing, karate and target or skeet shooting. He felt that everyone had one or two areas where they became expert savants for events, sport and often recreation. Each acquired savant syndrome might be very helpful in our careers or personal life.
If we could find our acquired savant specialty and use it in business and our careers, or we could use in a sport and really enjoy that sport.
My mother and one of her sisters had a GPS mind and never got lost once they had been to a certain area/home/building.
This was in the 1950’s to 2010. A sibling has that same skill, her adult daughter and grandkids have that same skill.
Both of our adult sons have this skill. One uses it hunting and fishing, and the other uses his skill to drive and from point A to point B.
We recently celebrate Christmas and Easter on 2 Jan, and I had ordered pizza from a fairly hard place to get to. He wanted to drive, and he got us there with no problem. While picking up the pizzas, a nixle alert came over his phone warning about traffic problems on the main street to get back to my home.
He hadn’t driven that route for 30 + years. He had been a pizza delivery guy for awhile. He had me drive and go over roads basically he remembered. Roads, I never drive on. A few minutes later we were back on our side of town.
We call that the GPS acquired savant specialty. Our grandkids have it, so does my wife and her siblings and their children.
I used acquired savant skills in the Navy, as a special helmsman, drill team member and as a premium anti shark protector for our divers. Those skills have enabled me to shoot 100 in both skeet and trap. I didn’t miss deer with my rifle and scope even if they running at 100 yards plus.
My wife, as an RN can listen to a heart beat with her stethoscope and tell the docs what the patients EKG looks like. If she heard music played on a piano, organ, sax or flute, she could basically play back that music with or without choir members and music.
Both my wife and I have zero ability to look at a paper diagram telling how to assemble or repair something. Our grandkids have zero problems with that. If I see it on You Tube or some other tv how to repair or do it, I’m reasonably able to follow and get the job done. One Dil can’t do that and the other is a You Tube queen.
My son recognizes trucks going by on the highway from ads in paper
Bookmark.
Got a thing where I hear a voice and always place it with its correct owner unless it’s one of the rare people gifted with true vocal flexibility (Mel Blanc, etc.). Would never have placed Animated Joker with Mark Hamill if not for closing screen credits. Otherwise I can usually identify people by hearing alone if I’d seen and heard them before. Neat ability with zero profitable application LOL.