Just thought I might start a thread on Visual Memory
Who has such & who does not??
I had excellent visual memories right back to my early childhood
I could just close my eyes & think about something & a moving picture would be in front of me.
It could be something that I was doing ,somewhere I had been , events, or even things that I had read
When my wife passed away just 12 Months ago , 4days short of our 69 th Wedding Anniversary, those visions of our life together were very precious to me,
Sadly, 4days before Xmas ,I went to bed with clear visions of us together in my head
Woke in the morning & the screen was & still t is totally blank .
I can now look at something & still tell you about it , but absolutely no visual memory. I thought every one had such ,but now find that my son in law & even my GP has never had such memory
Son inlaw did not even understand what I was talking about.
When it occurred I had a splitting headache ,G.P thinking it may be a stroke ,sent me straight to hospital .3 days of scans & test but no evidence of stroke or brain damage , Heart in good condition,. but it seems the loss is permanent
When travelling, as soon as I get to a town I have a 'movie' begin in my head 'showing' me where I was and what I did the last time I was there or drove through.
If I look at a photo, no matter how long ago it was taken, I am 'right there' and 'seeing' what was happening at the time. I also 'hear' conversations at the time the photo was taken.
I used to be a navigator in car rallies back in the day ... and as soon as I put a grid reference onto a map for an intersection we had been through any time before, I could 'see' the intersection and the approaching and departing roads from that corner. This still happens when I am planning my journeys now - as soon as I look at where I am going to be heading, if I have been through that way before, it all 'plays' again in my head from last time.
Unfortunately, my wife not only has no 'visual memory' and a terrible sense of direction. She used to love travelling as everywhere seemed like arriving for the first time.
Cheers - John
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2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Auto - 2008 23ft Golden Eagle Hunter Some people feel the rain - the others just get wet - Bob Dylan
However, despite my 'visual memory' for the past ..... I now have difficulty remembering where I put my specs 15 mins ago .... and definitely have no 'visual memory' of where the hell they are.
Cheers - John
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2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Auto - 2008 23ft Golden Eagle Hunter Some people feel the rain - the others just get wet - Bob Dylan
I too have a visual memory can go back to individual moments around 70 years or so - it seems to me that since major heart attack, resuscitation and open heart surgeries my night time dreaming is more vivid memorable on wakening - the Medico's all say that this phenomena is very common to patients that have been to the other side and have had a long operation under anaesthetics.
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When travelling, as soon as I get to a town I have a 'movie' begin in my head 'showing' me where I was and what I did the last time I was there or drove through.
If I look at a photo, no matter how long ago it was taken, I am 'right there' and 'seeing' what was happening at the time. I also 'hear' conversations at the time the photo was taken.
I used to be a navigator in car rallies back in the day ... and as soon as I put a grid reference onto a map for an intersection we had been through any time before, I could 'see' the intersection and the approaching and departing roads from that corner. This still happens when I am planning my journeys now - as soon as I look at where I am going to be heading, if I have been through that way before, it all 'plays' again in my head from last time.
Unfortunately, my wife not only has no 'visual memory' and a terrible sense of direction. She used to love travelling as everywhere seemed like arriving for the first time.
Cheers - John
Hi John
Your's is much the same as mine was
Can you imagine suddenly loosing all those pictures.???
My wife also had excellent visual memories ,so we use to regularly talk about the many places & things we had done together
I, too, have visual memory - when asked about a place or person, visions linking me to the spot or person - much the same as you guys. I hope it never leaves me, i enjoy it.
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To be different I'll say I do not have a visual memory. I do remember, to a certain degree, the places I've been but not in the "movie mode". Like I do remember seeing water running off Ayres Rock after a heavy storm, back in the 1980's but I don't see it running in my mind, more just stills like if you take a photo. I would say a lot of my memories are stills.
To be different I'll say I do not have a visual memory. I do remember, to a certain degree, the places I've been but not in the "movie mode". Like I do remember seeing water running off Ayres Rock after a heavy storm, back in the 1980's but I don't see it running in my mind, more just stills like if you take a photo. I would say a lot of my memories are stills.
You lucky people. Cheers.
Hi
It's good that you at least have stills
I would be happy if I still only had stills showing on my mental screen.,. but now it is just black./blank
That was why I was so surprised when my son in law could not understand what I was talking about
It was the first time my daughter & his two daughters became aware he was different to US
-- Edited by oldtrack123 on Friday 25th of May 2018 10:45:36 PM
