• Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Wait… the way you describe it now…

    I was always told of photographic memory being some super power and thought “Hey, would be neat if I had THAT!”

    Was that just the ability to daydream all the time? I imagined people with like literal cameras for brains that could take a picture of a book page and read it later like a text document.

    This whole time, I might have had that mystical power all along and aphantasia people just overstated how accurate it was?

    • Tahl_eN@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That’s a good question. I don’t think I’ve met anyone in person who claimed to have a photographic memory. I definitely don’t do the “recalling long strings of numbers” thing that TV shows imply. But I can pull up a fairly accurate picture of the inside of my fridge and take inventory.