Imagine being able to relive each day of your life with astonishing clarity, like scenes from a personal movie that never stops. This is the case of a woman with incredible capacity who lives and suffers with her.
They have a disease called hyperthymesia syndromewhich is often referred to as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAMfor its acronym in English).
While most people process short-term memories, she stores them in her brain in detail.
Short-term and long-term memory is stored in different areas of the brain. The page explains that in those who have HSAM show an improvement in the accuracy and detail of memories over time.
Also, it is related to autobiographical memory. Those who possess it remember events, images, dates and even conversations in great detail and they can evoke these memories effortlessly.
Her remarkable ability also has its downsides, expressing on the show that this unique gift, as she calls it, sometimes feels like a curse. While most people process short-term memories, she keeps them in detail.
It failed to achieve independence and gradually acquired obsessive behaviorsmaintaining the habit of writing a personal diary in which he recorded all his memories.
With this particular finding, the media and academic circles paid special attention to him, thus achieving that in 2008 he was able to publish a book called ‘The Woman I Couldn’t Forget’ to tell your story. Likewise, more cases have been discovered that have shed light on the deep study of memory.
