Super memory - what it's like to remember being a baby
Listen to Rebecca Sharrock's remarkable ability to remember everything in her life from dreams and events to book content and everyday conversations ⎮ 32 min 49 sec listen
Most of us can remember what we had for breakfast this morning. But, if you tried, could you remember what you had for breakfast on this today a week ago? Or, even further back, on this date last year, or five years ago? Rebecca Sharrock does. She’s one of a very small group of people in the world, about 60 known cases, who have a rare condition known as highly superior autobiographical memory, or HSAM. People with HSAM remember an incredible amount of their past experiences. Why they do is still a mystery.
Becky remember, is unable to forget all of her birthdays, emotional events and even dreams and has been dating them since 2004 by crossing off each day in a calendar. Listen to how Rebecca can recall and relive memories of past events and experiences here.
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