Video game reviewer Tim Rogers has some unpleasant memory condition where he remembers dates, numbers, etc. perfectly but also compulsively recalls old memories all day.
It's not quite like this, he said it's not a photographic memory, but it seems interesting. I read a story where he said he knew exactly how many cinnamon buns he'd ever eaten. I thought it was perhaps fiction, but there was a photo at the end implying it was real.
I think he explains it in his review of the PS1 game "Boku no natsuyasumi"
That was compelling, albeit for reasons I can't seem to elucidate, kind of like Knausgaard, right down to the mystifying self-presentation as a sort of loser who nonetheless has many friends and lovers (though maybe everybody, if they were to give similarly complete and honest accounts of their lives, would come off as sort of losers, too).
He reminds me of David Foster Wallace for some reason. In that sense that his writing is long-winded but full of texture and would easily be drivel if it were handled by a lesser writer.
I was familiar with his YouTube work but not his writings. Thanks for introducing me to him.
If you haven't done yourself the favor already, read the referenced story, Borges' "Funes the Memorious". It, like most of his work, is a pearl of simplicity and haunting implications.
I could not imagine a life where my brain was so full of tiny details, even if some were put there deliberately. I find programming so fills my brain sometimes that I forget simple things like "did I take my pills earlier" or bill deadlines, unless I use an app to remind me. Somtimes, I make an elaborate effort to watch myself take a pill, so I can recall it later. The brain is fascinating device we still don' complete understand.
So, the researcher published the study long after the man was dead?
How can we know the study wasnt faked? It happens now, and why wouldnt it happen in the past.
It's not quite like this, he said it's not a photographic memory, but it seems interesting. I read a story where he said he knew exactly how many cinnamon buns he'd ever eaten. I thought it was perhaps fiction, but there was a photo at the end implying it was real.
I think he explains it in his review of the PS1 game "Boku no natsuyasumi"