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Monday, February 5, 2018

Every detail of your life

Por G_nkerbell

But people like Nima Veiseh, interviewed by BBC Mundo, know exactly what they were doing any day of the last 15 years and will be able to give all the details of what they were wearing, or perhaps on which side of the train they were sitting on their trip to work. Veiseh says that his memory is like a library of VHS tapes, which is reproduced every day of his life from wakefulness to sleep, he explains. Veiseh says that recording began on December 15, 2000, when he met his first girlfriend at his best friend's birthday party and reports that he had always had a good memory, but that emotion caused by young love seems to have changed his mind , because from that moment on, I would begin to remember everything in details.

Normally, you do not remember many things about your childhood or your first steps. Of heho, when we speak of past events, we do not really remember them in their entirety, but essential things. For most of us, thousands of faded and discolored photos of events in our lives accumulate in our memory, and even the best moments or the most moving ones can be blurred, blurring and becoming co-founded over time.

But people like Nima Veiseh, interviewed by BBC Mundo, know exactly what they were doing any day of the last 15 years and will be able to give all the details of what they were wearing, or perhaps on which side of the train they were sitting on their trip to work. Veiseh says that his memory is like a library of VHS tapes, which is reproduced every day of his life from wakefulness to sleep, he explains. Veiseh says that recording began on December 15, 2000, when he met his first girlfriend at his best friend's birthday party and reports that he had always had a good memory, but that emotion caused by young love seems to have changed his mind , because from that moment on, I would begin to remember everything in details.

Currently, these people as Veiseh are of great interest to neuroscientists, as recent research has finally opened the way to the extraordinary minds of these people. Now these memories are known as Very Superior Autobiographic Memory or hyperthesia, a concept that emerged in early 2000, from the case of a young woman named Jill Price, who sent an email to the neuroscientist and memory researcher Jim McGaugh, where he specified that she could remember every day of her life since she was 12 years old and asked her to help her understand why. This case reached the press and other people with a similar condition contacted the team at the University of California.

However, although these people have memories are very detailed, they can also make some mistakes that we all make. Previous research showed that people with HSAM suffer from false memories, as that number of flashes can be brought to remember events in the world that never really occurred.

Craig Stark, a medical expert at the University of California, Irvine, interviewed people with HSAM for a week, a month and a year after events in his life to see how his memories changed over time, and compared them to other people. Of course, with the passing of the months while for others the memories became vague, for the individuals with HSAM the events were still fresh. Stark says there may be something in the way they cling to the information that the rest of us do not.

He also says that brain scans reveal no anatomical differences that could be responsible for these differences in memory. The key, according to the scholars of the subject, seems to be in habits and thought patterns, since it has been determined that people with HSAM have high levels in the propensity to fantasy and absorption, as a tendency to imagine and daydream, while absorption allows the mind to immerse itself in and to a complete concentration on a certain activity, paying full attention to sensations and experiences.

Absorption, according to experts, is what helps people with hyperthesia to establish solid foundations for memories and the propensity to fantasize, which is what determines that they return to visit those memories in the coming weeks and months.

While a person usually does that process after a big event in their life like the wedding day, for example, thanks to their other psychological tendencies, people who have HSAM do so every day for the rest of their lives and affirm the memories.