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[TheBiggerFish]

I'm not sure whether your conditions would actually invalidate the concept.

And neither do I.  Some people do have near-perfect recall, I think.

[Putnam]

The only evidence ever provided for anyone to legitimately have that was a researcher's wife who refused to repeat the test. That's not evidence, that's an anecdote, and that's being charitable. Everyone who has ever claimed an eidetic memory who has been tested has failed the tests that would confirm it.

like people just throw around the phrase like it's meaningful

my memory isn't even good enough to be confused for eidetic, it's just that people only ever hear me talking about, uh, things that i remember, which i guess is more than they expect

[itisnotlogical]

I've been awake for 22 hours

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

[GiglameshDespair]

I've been awake for 22 hours

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

Go to sleep then?

[TD1]

We all will.

A sleep from which we will never wake.

[/depressingthoughtfortheday]

[NJW2000]

I've been awake for 22 hours

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

Go to sleep then?

Seconded.

[TheBiggerFish]

The only evidence ever provided for anyone to legitimately have that was a researcher's wife who refused to repeat the test. That's not evidence, that's an anecdote, and that's being charitable. Everyone who has ever claimed an eidetic memory who has been tested has failed the tests that would confirm it.

Wiki confirms, I suppose.

I've been awake for 22 hours

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

Go to sleep then?

Seconded.

Thirded.

[Mr. Strange]

You guys are boring.

I've been awake for 22 hours

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

When you hit 40, post us a picture of what you feel like.

[Loud Whispers]

I once stayed awake for 3 days. What happened in those 3 days I'm still uncertain of to this day, and I still don't know why I was awake for 3 days. All I can remember for certain was watching my shadow detach from my hand and float off and I decided I needed sleep or I would die

[TD1]

How long'd you sleep? I can imagine an LW slumbering until the end of times, rising only with Triton and his horn.

[Shadowlord]

The only evidence ever provided for anyone to legitimately have that was a researcher's wife who refused to repeat the test. That's not evidence, that's an anecdote, and that's being charitable. Everyone who has ever claimed an eidetic memory who has been tested has failed the tests that would confirm it.

Wiki confirms, I suppose.

And yet there have been people like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Shereshevsky

[Bauglir]

And yet there have been people like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Shereshevsky

Not at all a contradiction. He never remembered something he'd never noticed, as far as I can tell.

[Tawa]

Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby

[MaximumZero]

My first memory is of getting grievously injured. Explains a lot, really.

[hops]

My first memory is falling off the trunk of a car and hitting my head.

That's probably why I'm mildly retarded.