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Rebecca Sharrock, one of the only people in the world with Hyperthymesia She can remember virtually every single day of her life in vivid detail, including being in her crib at just 12 days old. (lemmy.today)
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[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 77 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Sounds like a fucking nightmare

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It also sounds like it's going to get tragic with age. The brain is finite in its capabilities, and memory pruning is something that happens automatically, she won't get to choose what she forgets...

[–] WildPalmTree@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

She won't have unlimited storage. If she has'ish, other functions will degrade. Finite is as finite does.

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that's where my head went too. I've dealt with a pretty middle-of-the-road amount of hardship... wasn't born with a silver spoon up my ass or anything, but no Hollywood-esque trauma arch either. Still, looking back over even just the past decade, there's a lot more bad than good popping into my brain.

And the cool part? I already can't recall details from a lot of that shit. Just fuzzy concepts that my brain has filed into the fuck-it box and now I don't have to worry about them cuz I'm literally incapable! Woohoo!

Being fully conscious of all that, all the time... that would absolutely destroy my mental health. Fuck that!

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. Remembering when a loved one died as vividly as if it happened yesterday.... For decades. No thank you.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I doubt the condition means that every bad moment is there to hunt you eternally. I mean, I have some traumatic memories but I don't think about them 24/7.