• Skullz77@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    First off, anyone who doesn’t say 2 is wasting this gift. Perfect memory and recall makes most of these other things easy.

    Secondly, I’d choose Telekinesis just to fuck with people and win bar bets. Perfect memory would make it easy to make money, which would make perfect health much more attainable.

    • couscouscivil
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      Nah, 2 is a curse. Everybody else doesn’t remember. But they think they do. You have to either repeat everything (since you do remenber the 1st/2nd/…) or you have to argue someone that’s wrongly remembering.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      2 is a medical condition, there is people that remembers everything they did in their life.

      You can ask them what they did in September 25th 2006 and they will tell you exactly what they ate for breakfast, what was the weather like, what they did, what day of the week it was …

      From what I remember it was more a curse then a blessing. One because it’s really hard for them to categorize information and then they ever vividly everything including the bad stuff.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I’ll add an anecdote from a guy I know.

        For one thing, he said the way his worked was that he’d take a mental picture and be able to recall that thing perfectly. So, you could flash (a couple of seconds) him a random page from War and Peace, and he could read it out to you.

        However: he didn’t automatically know everything on the page. If he wanted to know what out said, he’d still have to take the time to read the page (in his memory).

        And there was a downside: if he learned something incorrectly, he couldn’t unlearn it. It made things really difficult for him when his friends started getting married and changing their last names… or when people changed their phone numbers, or email addresses. In the latter cases, people he’d known for years who’d had 7 or 8 phone numbers, when he wanted to call them he’d have to mentally work through each number until he got to the last one before he could dial.

        He never gave me a strong opinion about whether he was glad to have perfect recall, but he seemed to complain about it more than being grateful for it.

    • flucksy_bango@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t say that I have “perfect recall” or even an “identical memory”, but I have an uncannily sharp memory.

      I forget a lot, like most people, but what I remember is burnt into my mind. A lot of it are things I don’t want to remember. But, oh boy, can I tell you facts about giraffes!