um i don’t mean to brag but i have photographic memory and it is extremely easy for me to remember anything that i’ve seen and remeber the image and recall it from memory at any time, i just thought everybody could do it until i read this and found out how special i am
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Holy shit!
…since so many of you have photographic memory, can you exlain in depth exactly how you use it? it might be a strange question, but just think about it and try and write as much as you can.
I believe we can all develop photographic memory…its just a matter of, how?
This is what I’m trying to find out, and since there are 3 people here with this ability I’m sure if we work at it we can find a way.
Just image us being the first to find a way to develop this amazing ability, imagin all the benefits that would bring to everyone! (not to mention the benifits it would bring to our math tests 
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Come on! Lets get to work 
Mystery
PS: honeyjigga, DAMN that was one huge post!!! thanx for all the info!!!
Mystery
well I have the same as paula - I can remember things as an actual picture…that’s why I learn scripts for plays well - I visulise where it is in the script then think ’ I remember this line goes THERE on it’.
I can do tests with next to no revision. My friend Victoria is way more organised etc etc than me and spends ages revisin and I did better than her in KS3’s. It’s quite cool actually - my mum said that my late grandfather had one so obviously it skipped a generation.
I am disorganised and quite lazy so this quality makes up for it 
I’m thinking that if photographic memory is a subconcious ability, which it seems that it is. It should be able to be unlocked through hypnosis, therefor, I was thinking of using the BWG or the NNS for hypnosis, and then we can find someone with a nice voice, to say something like “When you hear the beap, you will wake up with the ability to remember and recall anything you see with complete precision, BEAP”
Is anyone willing to be the voice? Editor? writer?
Is anyone willing to try this at all?
Mystery
HEHE Mystery…
i can be that volunteer 
) i dont know if i ve a nice voice, but i can try. But i can try after when ill be back in poland again -so 20 september… will it be ok then?
Thats great paula!
Thanx
I can do the editing myself (unless anyone els is intrested)
and we need a guini pig to test it on 
Mystery
Heh, I have horrible visualization skills. I couldn’t even recall my own mother’s face if I wanted to. Of course I recognize her when I see her, but still… I think faces are the hardest thing to visualize actually.
If it’s any consolation though, I have an incredible “audio memory.” I can pretty much replay (in my head) any song I’ve heard, conversation I’ve have, or just random sounds. Sometimes I’ll play my own little mental recording of something and pick up on subtler and less obvious frequencies. Then, if it was something that could be played back to me again, I’ll relisten to it (physically) and sure enough those frequencies are there. This started happening to me a couple years ago when I started getting into music a lot, so it’s not like I was born with it. Seeing as how I’ve trained myself to remember sounds, I see no reason why one couldn’t develop a photographic memory as well. It would be a lot of hard work though.
I think my memory is actually a curse of sorts though. My thoughts have started shifting from spontaneous images and ideas, to sounds and voices. As a result I think much slower now because I can’t play these sounds in fastforward or anythingor anything like that.
yeh, I forgot to mension that I can replay music/sounds in my head aswell, its like having a personal sound recorder in the head
I guess that all people have a memory like that, but it varies, some can replay music some can see images (maybe others abilities too!).
Anyway, I want to really concentrate on Visual Memory first of all and if this works then we can improve any other memory 
Mystery
A lot of people can replay sounds.
Whiel I do not have a photographic memory, I seem to follow the trendso f what Garlic described. I am very good at maths, science, I.T and basicly all my lessons.
I am not so good at, but still quite good, at English and French. I am really bad at PM, but prehaps I don’t put in as much effort as I should.
I often remember things based on feelings I get from my subconscious. For example, when ever I think about a lesson, I get feelings associated with them, and it often reminds me that I have forgot this, or not done that. This is normal, and most people get these.
I think people can train to have photographic memories. I can recal colour images in my head, if they are simple, and without detail. I think with practice I could change my current memory structure to a photographic one, by improving my memory.
I think it is a matter of getting your brain to recover the whole image. You have to practice, and show your sub conscious this is what you want.
Can someone explain to me, do you actually see the image, or is it just in your mind’s eye.
This is not photographic memory. The light causes your retina to retain the image for a few seconds.
Yes, I know that.
Both acctually, eidetic memory is being able to memorise something and then project it onto a wall, or the place where it was originaly (we could all do this when we were little) the thing is that only 1 in 1000 people retain this ability as they get older, but when you “project” the image onto something its still coming from your mind and so if you close your eyes you’ll still be able to see it.
Mystery
uhm, i think my somewhere around 148. It’s pretty pointless though. Can anyone classify my type of memory? I can’t remember this one park but i know it’s got a big sign with a green squirrel and i can recall it mentally. Also, i know there’s a missing bolt in an archway beam from my high school. i remember exactly what a crushed cookie under my foot looked like from two years ago. my friend had beans in their breakfast a year or so ago. I remember words people say and when i refer to them they don’t remember it. that sometimes goes a long with a short 2 or 3 second clip. It’s a pretty good hear or photographic memory, but it’s of the most useless things (at least academic wise). it rarely catches on to something useful. earlier this week i headed to a meeting but i went to the wrong place. after a few minutes of wondering where everyone was, click i remembered a whole entire email and knew where it was. and then i forgot everything in the email except where it was.
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hhhmmm…well its hard to classify memory types because everyone has a mister of different types. I guess visual memory could be your strongest.
Mystery
Does anyone here have photographic memory?
Yep im one of the ppl w/ a photigraphic mem. If i look at a diagram or a page with notes on it and if its highlitghted, ill remember it easily. This ‘skill’ i guess some would call it is very useful in one of my calsses im taking right now…exercise science. We learnt about the many bones of the body. I learnt all of them by just highlighting the bones and giving them a quick glance.
Do you think its real?
It iS real, many ppl esp. in school will tell ya that.
Do you think its possible to devope it?
I think that ‘trying to develop’ thsi skill is just called memorizing. The more one tryies to ‘develop’ this skill, the more the person learns to memorize thinsg a diff way. I think its something ppl have naturally.
Do you know how to develope it?
(refer to above answer )
I developed it with playing cards putting them all on the ground and then visualize them one by one and at first u can only do an x number of them but when u practise u can soon do it with several playing decks.
Also with numbers…you visualize them and soon the line of random numbers you can see in your head and that way memorize gets longer and longer. But when you dont practise it anymore after a long time the talent also fades away, for me that is
practising memory - u can do it by putting cards on the ground . Its essential that u ve a pair of each card. U mix all the cards. put them on the ground and pick one of the cards, and then try to predict where the second card from a pair is. U should play it with sb - its kinda competition between u and ur mate. When uve found the pair, u put it on the side, and then u ve other chance to find other pair of cards. But if u didnt find a pair, its ur mate’s turn to try to find it…
its fun, and developes ur mamory a lot
hugs
Ok, so Mystery, r u going to realize ur project? if so, so what should i do and what should i record… gimme a sign
hug
Hello,
I think I know what you mean. When I was youger (16 or less, I’m 18 now), I’d only have to read a chapter once and get an A is on the test. I had near perfect visuation of what the text was trying to say. i think all it took was for me to be able to block everything else out going on around me, like you said, and be engaged in enormously intense focus. I wouldn’t call it a photographic memory though because I would forget it within a week. But that doesn’t happen that often anymore anyway, which I attribute to varying levels of serotonin, epinephrine or some other catecholomate.
I’d like to relearn some of my skills. I actually discovered this home study coars promising to triple your reading time called the raster master. Which ones had you looked into? I agree that attending a coarse would be the most sutible coarse of action to regain an ability. Can you tell me the name of one that doesn’t let you leave or your money back. Tonight, I’m thinking of joining a meditation couse for the first time. I think that should help too.
And yes, I think a photographic memory can be developed just like anything else. It just takes practice. Certain people have the advantage of being born with genes that manifest early in life. I think brain metabolism due to diet has a lot to do with it too. Please keep in touch- Miguel Gonzalez
Woah! Blast from the past, I started this topic in 2004 o_O
melgonz, sounds like you had a very good visual memory. Tell us if this course you’re undertaking has had any sort of impact.
My first idea of “burning” images wasn’t really effective, really all it did was burn the images temporarily into the eye, although it might be possible to keep these images the more you do it, it might be harmful to the eye.
My theory at the moment is that there is a possible way to “trigger” a photographic memory, maybe only temporarily.
I haven’t gone into this for a while, I’ve been quite busy with other things. I’ll post my findings sooner or later.
Mystery