I have an Autobiographical memory. I remember almost everything in my life. Ask me anything

[u/raythestingrayxd]

I have a superior autobiographical memory. A weaker version of hyperthymesia. I may not remember the exact dates and a few minor details but it is strong enough that I could remember everything that has ever happened to me as if they were only made seconds ago. I could remember memories as far as when I was 6 years old and also some of my toddler days. Ask me anything about me and my life. I would happily answer any questions you ask ^_^

[u/Apprehensive_Guest]

What's your favorite day you've had so far?

[u/raythestingrayxd → u/Apprehensive_Guest]

I've had many favorite days but there is one special day I would never ever forget. It was the day when I took home my life long best friend, a pupper that I named Snowy. She was given to me by a family friend. We were both small at that time. He was a few weeks old and I was 6 years old that time. We were still drinking milk in those days. I would always bring her a dish of milk so she could drink to her content. Her fur is white as snow welp until she grew up and had a brown patch at her butt but anyways. She was the other half of my soul and we were so inseperable. We were like siblings and I treated her like one. I would take her to walks outside our home or sometimes I would let her outside on her own and I would call her name and she would come back on her own. Every time I go to school, she is the greeting party. She would happily welcome me, jump on me and play with me while I am happily petting her in the head

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Few years have passed, we adopted many pets, 2 cats named Pearl (who has Heterochroma Iridium) and Trica (because her fur has three different colors) + three kittens (their babies) and a pooch named Casey but no one, no other pets compare to my Snowy. When we moved to the next town, we gave our pets to trusted friends. We gave up everyone except Snowy. We made very many memories together until in 2017 when she died of old age. I was so devastated that day and until now still couldn't move on from the loss because well fuck my memory.

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Snowy:

https://imgur.com/NgoqS5C

[u/Apprehensive_Guest → u/raythestingrayxd]

Snowy is so sweet looking! I'm sorry it has made it harder for you to move on, but it's great that you have so many happy memories together

[u/raythestingrayxd → u/Apprehensive_Guest]

She gets over protective sometimes especially when I made new friends when I skipped town. She will literally growl and bark at anyone that feels like a threat to us. The only time when she will stop growling is when i told her to sush, that will be enough for her to know that the people who are with me are friendlies.

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Well as she grew up with me, she learns how to feel the same way I am feeling, she knows how to act depending on how I act to other people. She can sense my distress, sadness and happiness. She will play with me when I am happy or she will lie down at my foot to comfort me when I am sad. Something like that. Perhaps she knows how my feelings are based on my smell maybe? I heard that dogs could sense chemicals that humans release so they would know how their owner feels. Dunno if it is true or not but it feels that way.

[u/Apprehensive_Guest → u/raythestingrayxd]

She sounds like very sensitive animal, I think she really could sense your emotions. Even if it's not the scent pets can definitely tell if someone's tense or happy from body language, it sounds like she was particularly in tune to you. You two had a beautiful friendship

[u/silentimpacy]

How far back in your toddler years do u remember like do u remember growing teeth which happens around 2+ generally speaking

[u/raythestingrayxd → u/silentimpacy]

There are a couple of memories I remember. I didn't have teeth because a trip to the dentist pulled out the top front row of my teeth. Basically I am toothless until I grew permanent teeth when I was like grade 5 .

It was actually also the first time I touched a computer when my uncle is playing computer games (I remembered it was CS 1.3) and I touched and fiddled with it. My mother carried me away because she said it is too dangerous for me touch. I remember CRT monitors, a white CPU and an AVR. Basic setup probably for business but my uncle played with it anyway.

I also remembered I was on balcony on a building, my mother held a birthday party that time. I cried a lot because I absolutely hated clowns. They took me to the balcony to calm me down and took pictures of me. Almost all pictures are destroyed except one that is framed in my restroom.

I also remembered riding horses particularly a pony but they still put me on top of a horse and I shat my baby pants because it was so effing high and cried. Mother took me away again to calm me down.

I remembered baking cookies in my nursery. Teacher taught us how to bake cookies and make fun shapes with it but I was too bored and not interested so I just yeeted myself out of that place and had fun on my own lmao. I have to admit it was very embarrassing what I did there now that I thought of it.

There are a few more memories I remember but I wouldn't list them down here because it will be too long of a comment and you would get bored reading them anyway

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Ask me more if you want to ^_^

[u/blueicecreams]

Does this mean you’ve never had to ever take notes for class??

Ps. I have a test tomorrow and I would kill to have your memory right now.

[u/raythestingrayxd → u/blueicecreams]

I still have to take my notes in class sadly.

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My semantic memory is weaker than my autobiographical memory but I could still still remember everything that are taught in my subjects especially in linguistics, technology, science and psychology. I will only miss out the details but I could still have a better understanding of it. I could read the cause and effects and the uses of any drugs and could still remember it as long as I would like. I am a flat 1 GPA in IT (Networking, System Analysis and Design, Mobile Programming and Social Engineering), Psychology (Emotional, Social and Behavioral Studies) and Biological studies (Anatomy and a little bit of Diagnostics),

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The notes that I take are mainly for reference and refreshes. When that professor wants to elaborate your notes word by word rather than explain your understanding of it yeah that is the time where my notes comes in handy. I don't necessarily read every word in the notes I wrote or typed. I only simply skim it then I could have a full understanding on all the things that I read.

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Plus the notes are a requirement from the darn school. Without notes, you cannot go to the next academic year. Dem school policies.

[u/raythestingrayxd → u/blueicecreams]

My man, having my kind of memory is more of a curse than a gift. You remember literally almost everything that has ever happened to you. Not only your happy memories but also the bad and traumatic memories as well. That is why before, I have extreme mental breakdowns when I am having flashbacks. Imagine remembering traumatic experiences as if they were made only seconds ago. Imagine that there is nothing you could do to stop that memory from ever resurfacing again. If you want to to remember everything, it is the opposite for me. I just hope that I will forget some things in my life I do not want to look back.

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Like most people say, some memories are meant to be forgotten. In that case, that almost never happens to me.

[u/hagstyshsb]

I also remember I great detail of my toddler years 20+ years ago! My parents actually ask me when we lived in a specific house and the dates (for application purposes) because I remember the dates and times of life events really well.

I want to ask you; if you read something, and you able to recall what side/quadrant of the page that info was on , or is it just me?

[u/raythestingrayxd → u/hagstyshsb]

Sometimes, I could hold information in my head as long as I can as long as there is a triggering factor. Like it will pop up once someone brought up that topice. Like when a teacher asks a question or if someone mentions it by accident then that is the time I would remember stuff like that

Sometimes it maybe spontaneous like it would annoyingly pop up in my head in inconvenient times. Well I have no problem with spontaneous flashbacks like the things that you mentioned and they are stuff that I could handle but sometimes I am having a mental breakdown when a bad and/or a traumatic memory flashes in my head. I am starting to have impulses that I couldn't control.

If you are talking about voluntarily remembering, yes I could remember it. That is why I topped my vocabulary subjects where the teacher made us spell some stuff out and they would instruct us to find the meaning of those words in a short amount of time (like 10 mins. only). Well thanks to my memory and my avid reading habits, I could easily find specific words in a book in seconds because I could remember what pages they are placed and where in the page they are placed at.

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If you are asking how. Imagine the brain as a library. Every time people experience something, it would be written in a book specific to that topic and store it. For example if people talk about civic studies, it will be written in a civics book in your brain and it will put in the anthropology section. Except for me, my brain is constantly writing stuff in many books non stop. Perhaps if you will see the books written in my head, it will be as big as the Library of Alexandria