I wish I had a photographic memory

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It must be so cool to have that kind of memory. If I had one, I can just imagine all the cool stuff I could know. I'd know all geography, languages, mathematics, encyclopedias, music, etc. Man, that would be great.

Ah, yes, true! And I'd be very reliable on work too if that were the case.
I'd be confident, I'd be more certain that I'll be right instead of this confusing mental drivel...



Though side effects include higher risks of PTSD, more frequent forms emotional/physical/mental trauma... And the eventual risk of mental overwhelm and difficulty navigating life while maintaining too many vivid memories of the past.

Think to afford photographic memory, one must be a bit emotionally hardy and super mentally organized. Because one gets all good memories... And also bad ones.
Or risk of getting shutdowns, overwhelm and confusion in between meanings of memories even if it's precise and quantifiable in content. Memories can be heavy.



It's possible to train super memory through practice of certain mnemonic techniques.
Or if science matches on, it can unlock the secrets to the unconscious and subconscious mind to attain the possibility of gaining photographic memory.

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I have photographic memory, and honestly, it can be overwhelming. Perhaps the biggest thing that I noticed about having this is my dreams are real life like. Even when everyday logic and the laws of physics don't make sense, everything is still realistic because nothing in my dreams look abstract. Sometimes it can be really freaky, but the best ones are when I enter into a lucid state, and I just decide to fly away from whatever I was at since I usually did not have interest with what was going on. But I'd really have to make sure that I did not think that I was not able to fly, or otherwise I would start falling to the ground, and sometimes I would be thousands of feet up in the air.

Other than that, I don't have a whole lot of use for my liking, other than be able to remember every detail just by looking at pictures and everyday things of our world. Maybe if I was able to draw well, then it would be a huge advantage towards art.

I used to have a photographic memory, or near it, when I was a kid, until years of severe depression and ECT stole it from me. I really want it back, my memory is crap now.

I could be wrong, but a true photographic memory has never been proven. I true photographic memory means, for example, that a person could view a page of text in a book, memorize it more or less in an instant, and recall it perfectly including recalling it perfectly letter for letter backwards just as if someone was using that actual page of text to do the same thing.

What most people refer to as a "photographic memory is an eidetic memory.

Edna3362 said, "Though side effects include higher risks of PTSD, more frequent forms emotional/physical/mental trauma... And the eventual risk of mental overwhelm and difficulty navigating life while maintaining too many vivid memories of the past." in a prior post here.

I am dealing with that now. I have often referred to what I have as a motion picture projector in my mind that plays back memories like a movie on a silver screen. Though this has been fun in dealing with most events in my life, it can be painful.

My parents' recent deaths often play on that silver screen ... played out moment by moment. It is agonizing to watch ... all my father's falls and deterioration ... all the trips I took him to the doctor with the dream that he would get better ... and he did not ... and then my mother. My mother brought me into this world as she was the closest person to me when I was born. And upon her death bed as she lay swallowed up in that awful disease of dementia, I was the closest person to her when she died ... just the two of us in a dimly lit room in a rest home.

And now, as Edna3362 has alluded to, I believe my script of life now contains four recently added new letters ... PTSD.