I then had to describe a large number of elements I had seen (20 or more). One of the tests involved pictures of a bustling lobby with dozens of details. Later on it’s faster than any method I’ve ever heard.īack during the years of my BA, I tried to get a job with airport customs in Canada.
I don’t do much of that, because I don’t usually have much need to, but it’s a lot faster than anything other than mnemonics, even for the first try. But, it’s essentially just staring at shorts strings of numbers until you get a good visual, then writing them forwards and backwards. The former probably does a better job of laying out the situation and the latter has a better exercise for experimenting with it. 4 Weeks to an Organized Life with AD/HD Jeffrey Freed and Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World by Jeffrey Freed, M.A.T. but, they both talk a bit about memorization by visual input. It’s mostly intended for teaching spelling to people that store information visually.Īnyways, there’s two of them, and my memory has them rather closely enmeshed, I can’t recall which one had the percentage. The book talks a bit about this, but I’m not sure how much help it would be in developing this as a skill. In my experience, there’s a bit of a continuum there depending upon innate neurophysiology and training. Whereas the type that people often times think of is more closely related to Autism and privileged access to the subconscience. It’s photographic memory more like the type the OP is talking about.
Otherwise, I’d recommend just paying closer attention to what you see, eventually the brain should get the message that you want to actually remember what you’re seeing.ĭo you know the name of the book? I would like to read it. Or even just placing the paper in a way that prevents you from viewing the subject and the drawing at the same time. I’d personally recommend taking up drawing and then just looking at the subject, blocking the subject out, then drawing. So, it’s definitely possible to develop it, but this way of doing it is pretty silly. I’m fortunate in that I’m quite good at both, I’ve developed it over the years. The other folks tend to use a bit of both. Honestly, this seems like a really stupid way of trying to develop photographic recall.Ī book I was reading a while back about the differences in learning styles between folks indicated that about 10% of the population has photographic memory as the primary means of storing long term memories and probably a similar number that store things more or less completely sequentially and verbally.