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Is there any specific ways or practice techniques to develop a photographic memory. One of my friends has a photographic memory that I didn't know about until today. I was literally blown away. He could recite word for word book and information he had learned from the FIFTH GRADE. This is amazing, and if there is ayway to develop it...I want it.

-Tully-

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Originally posted by Tully12M:
This is amazing, and if there is ayway to develop it...I want it.

-Tully-

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Me too.

Can he remember word for word a book he read last week?

There are techniques memorise a book. Tony Buzan in his book Use Your Memory ISBN 0563 20813 9 (paperback) page 173-174 gives a brief how to memorise a book using the techniques to memorise stuff explained in the rest of the book.

Alex

I imagine that if h can remember a book he read from 5th grade that he could remember one from last week. And his intlligece is completely effortless, he never used techniques from a book, he was just born with it. He scored a 28 on his ACT in the 6th grade, has taken AP classes n middle school,and if he neve moved would have graduated as a sophomore. CRAZY.

-TULLY-

Scored 28 on his ACT in grade 6.
I did not think you could take the ACT until at least, grade 9

I can remember word for word a book I read in the 1st grade. I never re read my class notes and have a pretty good memory for most stuff that I read and I'm glad I don't remember the later books word for word. It would slow me down.

I love photoreading books. I find it much more interesting that someone can post a question asking if it's possible to learn to memorise a whole book and I know exactly which book I photoread the information in.

No I hadn't activated the Tony Buzan Book I only photoread it 4 weeks ago. When you asked I went straight to the book opened the page and confirmed that the book had a method for memorising an entire book. I know the method intuitively. You wind up with an anchorword for each page number then you use a link system for each paragraph. I think its faster just knowing which book has the information you want and grabbing it when you need to get it exactly right is much faster

Alex

Some people are invited to take the test early, and they don't count, they are just invited to see how they do.

If your friend really has photographic memory, we should document it because the last time I check there were only 3 individuals with Photographic memory in the world. One of them was from Asia and the other from Italy. The only problem with these individuals was that they had a very low IQ.

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Originally posted by Tully12M:
Some people are invited to take the test early, and they don't count, they are just invited to see how they do.

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A photographic memory has been shown to be very common amongst small children. I seems they hold a photographic image of their experiences until they can understand/deal with them. Once they start intergrating their experiences into their life their memory becomes more fluid and less photographic.

The reason we don't have a photographic (eidetic) memory as we get older is that we keep adding/linking to our existing memories to build our understanding. Our memories are excellent we just used them to build up our information banks.

Alex

Duke College offers a scholarship program for middle school students who do well on their SAT scores, they take the SAT with seniors and juniors in highschool and there is a big seremony when the scores come back. I was invited to this, but I fell far short of your friend.

[This message has been edited by Mastermind (edited October 28, 2002).]