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One time I lost a slip of paper with a girl's phone number on it. I looked everywhere for two weeks. So frustrating - I could picture it right in front of me bu
by ahazred8ta 3y ago
One time I lost a slip of paper with a girl's phone number on it. I looked everywhere for two weeks. So frustrating - I could picture it right in front of me but I couldn't find it. I eventually read the number off my visual memory of the note, even though I had never memorized the number. Another time someone spoke to me in a loud bar and I couldn't hear a word. A week later I zoomed in on the memory and was able to lip-read what they said. Ironically I can't remember faces.
- pouf_1234 3y agoThat sounds a bit like a photographic memory to me
- bookofjoe 3y agoThis reminds me of one the funniest things that ever happened to me. About 50 years ago, in a century and location far, far away (art gallery in LA, Friday night, opening of a show) I talked a bit with a woman whom I found interesting and asked for her phone number. She wrote it down for me on a scrap of paper. A few days later I called and got a recording: "You have dialed incorrectly; that number is not in service; please try again." Done, same result. A while later I bumped into the art gallery woman somewhere; me being me, I'd kept the scrap of paper in my wallet. I said to her, "We met a while ago; you gave me your number but it's not in service." She said, "You must have remembered it incorrectly." I took out her number — written by her — and showed it to her and pointed out she'd written it down for me. She looked at it and walked away.