Just say a date and she can tell you what happened on that day. This is not a scene from a TV series. Rebecca Sharrock, from Australia, has a super memory. She remembers every single detail (细节) of her life and can recite all the Harry Potter books from memory
“I still remember my mum placing me in the car and taking a picture of me when I was 12 days old,” Rebecca said. “That’s my earliest memory.” She has kept everything in her brain since then. She can tell us what she did what the weather was like, and so on, on any given day. It is quite amazing, isn’t it?
But to Rebecca, this superpower is a headache at school. “I’m not very quick at processing things. There is always so much going through my mind,” she explained. At night, Rebecca has to sleep with the radio and a soft light on. If it’s too dark or quiet, her mind will be filled with all these memories and she can’t fall asleep. As a child, she also used to recite the Harry Potter books when she got nervous. So now she can recite every one of the books by heart.
About 80 people around the world are said to have a super memory. Rebecca is one of them. In medical science, this is called hyperthymesia. Before these people were born, certain parts of their brains had gotten changed somehow. Scientists have done lots of research on hyperthymesia. However, they still know little about this special neurological (神经系统) condition.
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