I have Hyperthymesia. The lack of research and possibilities

Think I mayhave this too - always assumed everyone's memory worked like that, though people have looked at me blank when I've mentioned zooming in or out and rotating things in the memory.

Sometimes I get false memories, misremember certain events or have complete blanks but I can remember back to around 18 -24 months being in a babywalker at a childminders.

The only akward part I find is when I come round/vision returns after blanking out from replaying the movie I'm generally staring at someone's boobs/have been the whole time unintentionally.

For help with the negative memory aspect have you tried Mindfullness? It's not for everyone but the focus is on living in the present. Human brains are hardwired to focus on negative experiences as a survivial mechanism - a negative memory naturally makes nine times the neural connections as a positive one - mindfullness is about rewiring the brain to balance out the positive and negative memory formation and has been proven to decrease amygdala volume and fight or flight/panic responses to negative memories.

I personally found huge benefit from it and what were traumatic memories that would cause reliving the trauma and impact on daily life and cause panic and depression now no longer cause that reaction and are just things that happened - CBT and talking therapies had never worked for me as they focussed on constantly reliving negative events in the past.

Hello pal … sounds like a nightmare to me !!! I’ve got what I call selective memory .. can forget anything I dont want to remember like it never happened.. my best pal tells me stories of things we’ve done together ( usually me being a cu*t 😂) and have no recollection of it ever happening .. I don’t drink either haha .. but I can remember telephone numbers from 30 year’s ago in a second !!and don’t owe me money either because it’s never getting forgotten till it’s paid in full haha .

a reply to: chr0naut

As for remembering things, I only have a reasonable memory, but I have a 'genius-level' forgettery, which overrides that!

you see that makes for a healthy mindset , Forget the Negative .

a reply to: schuyler

I am jealous.
I have to memorise a lot of things and it takes a looooong time.

originally posted by: belkide
I will try to be brief. This is something I have and I know some people also have around the world. Its about remembering everything; and you can watch the memory with exact details, without changing, anytime you want, without needing any input from outside.

So, Hyperthymesia is remembering everything you go through like a video. It is not like having a "good" memory. It is like you can select an event and rewind, stop, forward; remember all the details, zoom, listen more carefully, in incredible resolution. When you go into the "movie" mode you blank out. You are basically blind till there is something obvious starts to happen in your peripheral or stops when you decide.

So here is the main thing:
Had many unfortunate events during my life. Sadly my life mainly consists of sadness and hardship... And I remember everything. I tried therapy, EMDR, and other things but none worked. These were some "ok lets do it" attempts with not so much waiting an improvement or anything, I just gave a chance.

There is an issue about finding candidates about the research the internet says. Do you have it? Do you think more research on this should be done? How can we improve it? Or for the ones like me, maybe disable it forever.
Off to you ATS

Thanks

p.s. I accepted everything I have been through. Its not the problem. I haven't tried hypnosis and I wont for some reasons. Its all accepted and absorbed.

it's pretty rare to have that.

just about 6 documented cases in the world now. ok, maybe 60 cases.

i don't know how to help you, sorry.

sleep helps they say.

a reply to: chris_stibrany

By the way, to memorize things like a text or some info etc I literally have to be so much interested in the topic. Its not like reading a book and memorizing by itself along =)

a reply to: Scotchjimmy

Yea i still remember old numbers and it messes with new ones lol. Also passwords. More to the nightmare haha

a reply to: bastion

Thanks for the advice. I appreciate it. I tried to look into it, I will give a try again =)

And yes, I also thought everybody could do it, like creating objects in a 3d plane and twist, rotate. Its like a 3d game engine lol.