Cross Referencial Thinking

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I find it's more fun to skip the "that reminds me" part and go straight to the memory and watch them trying to work out where that came from

 

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None of my memories are stored with time as a salient piece of information ...

Many of mine are "time stamped". My memories in general are very detailed and include sight, sound, smell, taste and touch as well as context. When I recall a fact it usually comes with what I was doing and when and where I was when I learnt that fact because to me remembering often means reliving the event.

I've often said that I have very good memory, probably almost photographic, but I dont get to choose how memories are stored.

I learnt the term Eidetic when I was in my 30s and started using that to describe my memory but that falls short a little too. People with eidetic memories remember facts in sequences, such as a farmer that can recite his horse's genealogy back about 25 generations, but - the way most of these people remember things is very specifically to remember an entire sequence. If you asked that same farmer which horse was 12 generations back he wouldn't be able to tell you without writing it all down and counting back. For these people it's more of a savant ability than something truly useful.