Re: all those posts about people who can't picture an apple in their minds, it's less that the phenomenon blows my mine, it's that I'm more curious how that effects literally everything about their lives...
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But of course this goes other ways. I can't remember if I told things to people. And in the last few years on and off depression has WRECKED a lot of my long term memory (which was always solid) and especially short term. It's strengths and weaknesses.
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This may explain why I started out doing incredibly well in school then got progressively shittier with time. I stopped taking notes. In university I did my best work when I was doodling during class. A friend claimed she saw things mentioned during lectures in the drawings

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Probably related to the visual memory thing.
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I don't have much visual imagination but I used to be able to remember anything I read in text by imagining the book in my hands. Lost the ability when I was in my twenties for some reason.
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Oh yeah I'll just turn the "remember it" switch in my head so I can remember EBGDF as anything other than a nonsense string. Or was it EDBDF. Or - oh, every good boy deserves fudge, it's EGBDF
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Mnemonics are great, I use them a lot until I have it memorized. Notes and labels aren't pictures, they're words, so I learn them in word ways, not picture ways.
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