BTW, a joke: "Everyone has a photographic memory, but some people just don't have film." I guess that means I don't have film. LOL.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2580867.stm

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/aug97/866819368.Ns.r.html

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000901.html

A person with a photograpic memory can recall what they see, with the same kind of accuracy as an actual camera, in that this person can actually notice something that they had not noticed before (when "returning" to this "picture" in their minds), because the picture is complete, even if their understanding of it isn't. Such a person doesn't have to entirely read a page of a book (for example), they simply have to make sure that they see all of it, so that they can call it back up later. I am capable of this to the extent that I can "take a picture of about 5 pages, and then I have to review, and then go on to the next 5 pages, and then review, and so on...

A person with a typical memory (for lack of a better word), needs to remember any detail, before it will come back to them in the "picture" in their heads.

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Scientists who study memory phenomena generally believe that eidetic
memory (more popularly known as "photographic memory") does not exist.
Early experiements on eidetic memory were intriguing, but could not be
replicated.

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Interesting, this contradicts what Mentat said. But I disagree with those experiments because they only used expert chess players, and not people (apparently) who claimed to possess an eidetic* memory.

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Interesting, this contradicts what Mentat said. But I disagree with those experiments because they only used expert chess players, and not people (apparently) who claimed to possess an eidetic* memory.

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Err...well, I don't think that's the only tests that were done, that was just one example, as evidenced by the fact that they said "for example".

p.s.
have you ever heard of self hypnosis

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p.s.
have you ever heard of self hypnosis

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What's so important about self hypnosis?

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Originally posted by MajinVegeta:
no, I haven't heard of self-hipnosis; do tell.

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Self-Hipnosis Is The Hipnosis You Do To Yourself , Like When You Focus To Remember Something You Read , Or To Fucus When You're Aiming At Something To Hit It .... these Examples Are Simple , But In these conditions , The Hipnosis Level Is Very Low .

For self hypnosis to work well the mind needs to be in a nearly meditative state.

Zargawee you were refering to some form of munipulation of the subconsious mind which is similar to hypnosis and when you are nearly asleep your mind is almost in a hypnotic state.

Even when you are awake you can munipulate your subconsious mind to relatively great extent with some practice I read a book called A Course in Hypnosis which is at least 20 years old I think what I saying is accurate. Some of this I know from personal expereince.

To best munipulate the subconscious mind you need to eliminate many of the distractions made by the conscious mind.

I write more in this but this is getting toooo long

Or, at least that's what I've gathered from a couple of books about memory.

It is possible that we do recall everything we witness subconsciously. It does not explain that there is only a portion of people that have photographic memory when under hypnosis, this is not proof that we don't remember everything, since we don't really understand how the mind works. Maybe we cannot recall everything in our brain in the hypnotic state. Maybe the neurons may grow weak from disuse or physical damage can occur.

When we first see something it is stored in our short term memory, then if our mind somehow deems this knowledge as important it is stored into long term memory and the more we try to recall an event the more it is reinforced.(this is referring to conscious memory)Also there are events you will literally never forget, I think strong emotions also effects our ability to recall events.

This makes me wonder, that if our memories change when we recall them
as we are recreating the event in our mind. If we could somehow convince our brain that everything it observed was extremely important could we give ourselves a photographic memory?

One more thing, the brain uses near a third of the blood's oxygen,(or at least I have been told such) shortly after running or any other cardiovascular workout my mind seems clearer, I can recall more events I can think in greater depth and faster as well. There are several experiments supporting this. I do not remember who it was that conducted them :)

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Originally posted by MajinVegeta:
Is there such thing as holographic hearing? For example: Someone could here the whole "Messiah"(by Handel, I might add) opera and recite the whole thing without making any mistakes only after hearing it once.

www.dbzsc.com/vegeta34.jpg

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I have holographic taste. I can hear the first bar of a music piece and decide there and then whether it's any good or not. Surely that beats photographic memory!

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Originally posted by MajinVegeta:
Is there such thing as holographic hearing? For example: Someone could here the whole "Messiah"(by Handel, I might add) opera and recite the whole thing without making any mistakes only after hearing it once.

www.dbzsc.com/vegeta34.jpg

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I have to think that something like this does exist just becuase of a long time friend of mine. He's one of the nicest guys around but definetely one of the dumbest. However he can remember anything he hears in a movie after seeing it only once. I am serious. Though he can barely handle middle school algebra, he once quoted me all of Austin Powers word for word having only seen the movie once. He could even describe the exact actions of the characters. I suspect his ability to remember the words is probably stemming from his ability to "see" the scenes again in his head on will. It is really pretty interesting to hang around with him and marvel at his unending library of movie lines. You can seriously have complete conversations with him while he quotes nothing but movie lines but stays on topic with what you are talking about. It's incredible!