upi.com — AJ can recall with astonishing accuracy what she was doing on that date and what day of the week it was. Because her case is the first of its kind, the researchers have proposed a name for her syndrome -- hyperthymestic syndrome
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charminggeekMar 14, 2006
There's quite a bit more about "AJ" at MSNBC via the Orange County Register<a class="user" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11808527/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11808527/</a>
angelgirl0Mar 14, 2006
Just about everyone can do this if they try hard enough. Remembering daily activities big deal. I mean who cares if you remember that you ate a bag of potato chips and a beer while watching an Episode of I Love Lucy where she's in the chocolate factory the day it aired for the first time so many years back. Relevant info? Maybe to the woman remembering it but not to anyone else. I actually have almost the same "problem" as her. That's why I tell people not to show me numbers or passwords because I will not be able to forget them. Because for some reason my brain will memorize data and associate it with that person for future reference. I also have a knack for remembering information that is interesting to me personally. If its something I'm not interested in I'll forget it. My memory isn't 100% perfect because of that... but its good to be selective in what you remember. Like our hard drives in our computer if you kept all the junk (had a ham and cheese sandwich on whatever day at whatever hour while doing whatever, etc) we'd be wasting precious space. I don't believe that the human brain is an endless storage source... makes me wonder since she doesn't have a mechanism for selective storage is her brain capable of selective discarding of info when her brain is full of junk information?When I was in school if I looked at a page long enough I could actually recall what the page looked like and read off the page. No kidding. Its almost like our brains with practice can snap pictures of things like pages books if we are good enough at it. Yes its kind of annoying especially when you want to forget a bad event. But I think of it as more of a gift. Everyone has the potential to turn their brains into human "hard drives" so to speak. It just takes a lot of practice and hard work which many are not willing to do. And for a while it'll seem like you're not improving but like exercising your other parts of your body - it takes a long time sometimes to get results. Though the most helpful way to remember stuff is to find a trick to remembering it... and make it fun.
Closed AccountMar 14, 2006
Digg doesn't allow italics.Think of it like being in a loud bar. When you lean over and yell in your date's ear, that's not shouting. It's whispering.
mailman0Mar 14, 2006
Because digg doesn't let you use HTML tags so the only way to emphasize something is to make it CAPITAL. That's not shouting. THIS IS SHOUTING!!!!!!!!!1one
trogdoorMar 15, 2006
Your burial shows that, unfotunately, not enough diggers have read 1984.
changhsinMar 15, 2006
If they call this is some kind of problem, I wish I had the same problem too.
ggkoMar 15, 2006
I think read somewhere that few if any people actually "saw" the moon landing as it happened. This wasn't one of those NASA hoax conspiracy stories, rather most people watched it delayed. The only live viewers were at mission control.I might be wrong about the recollection and could some of that hyperthymestic stuff myself.
Closed AccountMar 17, 2006
i can't remember what i had for breakfast :(
Closed AccountApr 10, 2006
...and what a great episode that was.