Like in the computer when we save any data on our HDD (hard disc drive), and delete it, it goes to the trash bin and later we empty the trash bin.
Same as our brain?? Share your views!
Reminds me of several movies, including Total Recall and my favorite, Rain Man. This is a disorder, which like other mental disorders can be addressed to some extent but cannot be cured Completely. There is no reason to try to cure. Nice question Maham Muzamil
Hyperthymesia, also known as piking or hyperthymestic syndrome, is a condition in which an individual possesses a superior autobiographical memory, meaning he or she can recall the vast majority of personal experiences and events in his or her life.
I think we can't use the word delete same as we use for computer. We can rather use the word suppression because memories always there if its rehearse properly. It may be not in consious mind but unconsciously it is there
The recitation of "Minn sharr riil wauss waass-sil khaannas" (Holy Quran, chapter 114)
is the pragmatic remidy to washout rubish thoughts & anomalous memories from human brain.
" Hypermnesia: Abnormally strong memory of the past. As compared to hypomnesia and amnesia. From hyper- + the Greek mneme, memory.'(https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=31783).
" Hypermnesia is a term referring to the phenomena of an enhanced memory, particularly in terms of recall. Historically it was applied in situations where abnormal mental states or hypnosis resulted in improved performance."(http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Hypermnesia).
" Hypnotized subjects respond to suggestions from the hypnotist for imaginative experiences involving alterations in perception and memory. Individual differences in hypnotizability are only weakly related to other forms of suggestibility. Neuropsychological speculations about hypnosis focus on the right hemisphere and/or the frontal lobes. Posthypnotic amnesia refers to subjects' difficulty in remembering, after hypnosis, the events and experiences that transpired while they were hypnotized. Posthypnotic amnesia is not an instance of state-dependent memory, but it does seem to involve a disruption of retrieval processes similar to the functional amnesias observed in clinical dissociative disorders. Implicit memory, however, is largely spared, and may underlie subjects' ability to recognize events that they cannot recall. Hypnotic hypermnesia refers to improved memory for past events. However, such improvements are illusory: hypermnesia suggestions increase false recollection, as well as subjects' confidence in both true and false memories. Hypnotic age regression can be subjectively compelling, but does not involve the ablation of adult memory, or the reinstatement of childlike modes of mental functioning, or the revivification of memory. The clinical and forensic use of hypermnesia and age regression to enhance memory in patients, victims and witnesses (e.g. recovered memory therapy for child sexual abuse) should be discouraged"( Kihlstrom, J. F. (1997). Hypnosis, memory and amnesia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 352(1362), 1727-1732.).
Reminds me of several movies, including Total Recall and my favorite, Rain Man. This is a disorder, which like other mental disorders can be addressed to some extent but cannot be cured Completely. There is no reason to try to cure. Nice question Maham Muzamil
Thank you to Dr Gulzar Shah Dr Segun Michael Abegunde Dr Nazia Asad Dr Jahangir Khan Dr Eman Kareem Dr J. M. Koli Dr Zainab A Makawi Dr Syed Zafar Sultan Rizvi for the participation !!!
is a condition which leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail.
Hypermnesia could be actually a very painful mental disorder. We experience lots of loss, and sad and shocked life events. As times go on, our memory fades away, leading us to feel healed from the wounded heart. We also do not need to memorize all of those things.
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