Shannon's Journal Discussion

[apollolux]

Tell me about memory palaces and eidetic memory.

Memory palace on Wikipedia - basically, a particular mnemonic device where the associations of data stored in one's memory are searched for usually like a library of sorts. It's been particularly glamorized in the BBC Sherlock (especially the S3 episode "His Last Vow").

Eidetic memory on Wikipedia - what people usually mistakenly call "photographic memory," essentially instant recall but without mnemonics. The portrayal of such in media (especially TV shows) usually has those possessing it complaining it's a "curse," recalling memories easily but often worrying about such recall conflicting with something happening to them "now" (i.e. "is the memory what's happening now or is it a memory of something that happened before?").