Marilu Henner's Superior Autobiographical Memory
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- Опубликовано: 19 дек 2010
- Actress Marilu Henner is 1 of 6 known people in the world with the ability of "superior autobiographical memory." She spoke with Rebecca Jarvis to discuss her incredible gift.
Unbelievable how the human brain can become like a computer and retrieve information from not just years but days in the distant past. She has an amazing gift.
She was wrong but she believed it that's what's important she didn't know you can verify the dates and days using a calendar for 1975
She would be so handy to have around lol
I love how she can remember all the good and the "bad" but she seems to always take it to a positive perspective. Goes to show, perspective is kinda everything. I'm interested in her methods because my mom suffers from memory loss in her older age and I'm kinda scrambling to find natural solutions.
She wrote a memoir with some pointers.
Someone needs to ask this lady about the Mandela Effect
she will know for sure whether it was Berenstein
It is interesting that she know every day and date in each year. That is not just memory...
Well, she has been tested for it and proved to have the diagnose, she proves it with both dates of events that can be proven and memory-games during another documentary.
what is it then?
Unfortunately for us this is usually deemed as a threat, multiple circumstances unfolding has very little to do with photographical memory.
How surprising how much a human brain can record. Maybe she got a cloud storage.
Of all the TAXI cast Marilu still retains her youth ...both mentally and physically ...Amazing
I bet she won't forget wearing the same clothes as the interviewer that day. LOL
Werd
eugie You probably can't remember who you slept or shit on that day!
lol
Rofl only a woman can notice this
I'll remember your comment forever. I have the same thing. Nice troll.
This 'gift' sounds like a nightmare! There are some things I most definitely would not like to remember in such fine detail.
There's another lady with total recall and she said it does drive her crazy sometimes, she remembers every single day from around the age of 14 and beyond.
@Marquis De Sade I thought that was interesting too. My memory was definitely a lot better when I was younger than now in my mid 30s. Starts around 4:10 if you want to listen to her interview ruclips.net/video/hpTCZ-hO6iI/видео.html
Go check out the book “The Woman Who Can’t Forget.“ it was written by Jill Price, who is the woman being discussed in this thread.
kriss mg I would want this gift lol
lol same
I've always loved her memories
She is so wholesome and adorable.
my specialty is forgetting shit faster than I can count to 10
I'll forget I watched this video.
😂😂😂😂
I watch videos on learning Portuguese and other things and I comment on them and discover that I’ve already watched them and already commented on them. It’s scary.
@@patfromamboy 🤣 I relate. Finished a novel last year to discover in the closing scene that I had already read the book. 😬
@@lindabennardo2561 exactly!!
these kinds of people still remember the days they were sick, and they remember the feelings of being sick, i think that this makes this wonderful gift, just a little bit less, but it also makes them history keepers, not written by the victors, but written by the truth tellers
when i remember stubbing my toe , my toe doesnt hurt as i recall the memory
@@fcscommercialconstructionllc Good point, but it's the emotional pain that can be remembered as if it just happened that makes it difficult for many folks with this type of memory.Marilou Henner seems to have had not only a remarkable memory but also a remarkable ability to stay happy and positive-minded. What a beautiful mind she had. (I realize this is a year later I am responding to your comment heh).
I have an exceptional memory. Not quite like Marilu, when she can remember the date as well as the day, but pretty long term. My friends think I'm sick but it just comes naturally. I'm 34 years old I can remember things when I was 5, back in 1982. It's a good thing that I'm not alone, especially when a stunning celeberty like Marilu Henner has it too. I too was born in April.
Oh, but it's only fair for me to add that, for better or for worse, I wouldn't trade my mind for anything in the world.
Though it can be hard at times, it's truly amazing to be able to hold a 'big' picture of the world in your mind. Superior recall, especially with deeper associative ability, truly gives one a different perspective on life.
When I was younger (mid 20s), I could remember a lot of my life. As an example, my
mother always had birthday parties for me and I could remember every guest and their gift for every year going back to 5 years old. I could remember every Xmas and every gift I received and gave. I couldn’t recall everyday but I recalled a lot of important days. I still do and I’m 63. I remember lot of little details about people and I categorize people in chronological age based on their age in relationship to mine. So they’re basically x days, months, or years younger or older than me. I do this age thing with everyone including strangers if I’m privy to their age. I can still see me in the hospital as a 3 year old. I can still visualize the house we lived in when I was 2 and 3.
I find this fascinating and am admittedly a bit envious. Oh my goodness, half the time I can't remember what I ate for dinner the night before. If I replay information in my head, I can remember, but otherwise, nope, nothing, nada. Some of this, I am sure, is that I lack the ability to visualize, so there are no visual recordings in my brain like everyone else describes. I also have moderate prosopagnosia (face blindness) - presumably related - which makes life challenging. But somehow my brain compensated, and I managed my way through college and later a post-graduate master's degree with a near 4.0 and developed a professional career. Just don't ask me to recognize you in the grocery store or remember how we met. 😏
I can literally forget what I watched on tv the night before. I just love that she was on one of my favorite childhood shows and she was so special. Taxi had such an interesting cast. So many all stars. Devito is still banging it out. Tony Danza was a boxer before the show. Freaking Andy Kaufman was a genius. Christopher Lloyd was fantastic. There were like 12 big stars and she was there recording every moment. It was really something.
Don’t forget Judd Hirsh, very underrated
I am on the SDAM spectrum. Its the opposite condition of high autobiographical. I wish they also talked about SDAM. I also have aphantasia and many people with it also have SDAM.
@@lijohnyoutube101 I have aphantasia (inability to visualize) and prosopagnosia (inability to remember faces), but I have never heard of SDAM. Or maybe I have and don't remember. Lol, seriously.
Can she remember all her dreams
Now that is a good question
yes
No, it is not possible to remember most of your dreams... btw you dream about 6 to 10 times a day...
GodofDebate For average person like us your it’s in possible, for people like her with this ability it’s not impossible it’s very much possible.
Good question
I can't do this completely, but there are some things I've done in my life where I remember the dates. I can remember approximate periods of time when things happened with myself or my family based on where I was in school, summer camp, work, etc. But I can't figure out what day of the week my birthday or Christmas fell on. I can do dates for a series of events in a process, such as when I got a dental implant, and I documented all the dentist appointments that happened, and I included the dates, because my father needs an implant himself and he wanted me to explain the process. But there was a time that my father asked me when he replaced his dishwasher, and I could only give the year, as I correlated it with a job I had.
I suspect more people have this than we know on a smaller scale. NOT every day but remember much of their lives.
Agreed. I worked with a legal assistant who could pull information from a client's file out of her head. I would enter into staff meeting with files and notes and have to check my records, and she'd just rattle off any piece of information on present or past clients. It was remarkable. Okay I realize my response to your comment is three years late hee.
Shes amazing, and she seems so nice
I am reading her book, and it's great!
Don’t know wether this is a blessing or a curse.
it is blessing you can do many things you are special
The short answer is I don't know. As for the long answer, while my recollection of dates is nowhere near hers (probably a few orders of magnitude less) I can recall the month and year, and occasionally the day of events that happened many years ago. I was born in 1960, and can remember dates as far back as 1967. To me it's normal, because I remember other things going on around the time of a specific event. For example the fire that struck Fort MacMurray, AB was in early May 2016, just before the Mercury transit. I'm often asked questions like what year did we move to Sarnia, Ontario? I instantly know it was 1970 as I remember various other events going on at the time, and what music was playing on the radio. Anyone remember Hitchin' a Ride by Vanity Fare, or Lookin' out my back door by CCR?
I think this kind of memory is advantageous because knowing the date helps me remember past events and learn valuable lessons from them. For example when the tech bubble was inflating in early 2000 I clearly recalled the similarity to the gold bubble of exactly 20 years earlier in January 1980, and wisely avoided tech stocks then.
Curse
I have this but at a much lower level version it can be a curse because in some cases I can't focus at all and studying is hard.
One of the first six people confirmed to have this says it’s a curse; she doesn’t participate in most news stories about it. The others all seem to enjoy it, or are least bemused by it.
This is an old clip. They’ve found over thirty people with HSAM now.
There's one thing I'd like from her, if she went to studio 54 I'd like an entire playlist of all the songs she heard there.
😂😁
If your interested I'll put a link in the comments when she was on another show with more detail. How amazing, I can remember early memories but nothing like this woman, I have memories from 2 years old I can remember, people never believed me, but I feel good watching this now.
ruclips.net/video/hpTCZ-hO6iI/видео.html
The ability is called hyperthymesia. I think I have a form of it as I remember events with vivid detail in my life as if they were yesterday, however, unlike Marilu or the people who have it, I cannot give you an exact date when many of these memories in my life has occured (at best, I can round it it down to the year an event occurred). I can remember probably 85%-90% of the events in my life. For Marilu, it may be a superpower, but for me and others, it can be pretty crippling because we remember a lot of memories, good and bad. As Marilu says, it's like popping a DVD to a certain scene and there is no stop button.
Incredible!
My friend just told me I had a Marilu Henner memory and I came here because I'd never heard of it. I can do exactly what she's talking about, but the way I map out things is a little different. I'm kind of stunned.
High autobiographical memory :) is what it is. The opposite also exists ( which I have).
simply amazing :)
Beautiful and incredible
What a brilliant mind. I couldn't imagine having that ability.
I need this power for my studies.
I thought I had a freakish memory for sports and entertainment but still not as freakish as this. I can remember dates very well better than the average person but only if I consider them significant. This woman just remembers every day whether significant or not.
Anyone know where I can get the book she’s talking about. I can’t find it anywhere. I can find every other book she has wrote but not the one she’s talking about in the video.
I have searched for Marilu's book; can't find it anywhere! It appears that the spring it was supposed to come out has long passed, but where to locate the book is beyond me!
Cathie Flahr - Same here. Searched everywhere for her book but can’t find it. I can find every other book she has wrote but not the one she’s talking about in this video. So annoying.
This is one of my favorite obscure Disco songs, Make That Feeling Come Again by Beautiful Bend. Have you ever heard it Marilu ? And where were you?
ruclips.net/video/JSMJnidwIZo/видео.html
Marilu is right on, I've had this ability my whole life and it took until her 60 minutes episode for me to be able to prove it to my family, that it is for real and other people have it too.
For me, it is a timeline, year over year. It gets broken down chronologically, by location, by people and groups, by interconnectivity and dynamism, lessons learned and by origin and who I learned them from. The gift is the abilities it creates and manifests, the curse is how others react to you
@notfiveo I've had a pretty epic life on top of that
@@chrisc7248 I have it too..i Never understood how others cant remember their past. I remember everything..even Being born. I think there are a heck more of us than 10. My own children cant remember their childhood , i mean their babyhood.. I waited so long for them to get to an age where i could ask them what they were thinking or how they felt when this or that happened. JUST TO FIND OUT THEY CANT REMEMBER. I was devastated to find out they cant remember. We have 7 kids so the first 5 cant but we shall see about the last two... I have a feeling that they will be able too
ya, i dont like the reaction either..i Cant help but feel like they think i am just making it up. If i want too i can see it all like it was yesterday.
At night i like to daydream that i did so much of it differently. You know, avoid all the things i wish i never did. 🙂
@notfiveo 100’s have now been identified since it was on 60 mins as well as the opposite disorder.
@SargentAssStuffer There was a House episode about that sort of thing, where someone with a super-autobiographical memory could not get past things her sibling said years ago even when they both now needed each other. She just kept remembering the pain and could not forgive.
My birthday is April 21 so I loved that it was the date being discussed. And that Tuesday April 21, 2009 is memorable to be because I turned 40 years-old. I do recall some of the evening too at a bar and the people. But wow I don't have the ability Marilu Henner has.
I even remember when I was 2 n a half, yeah can visualize certain snippets.
Watching this on October 5th 2021. 11 year after the release of this video on December 20th 2010.
I have only had about 3 pairs of shoes. I can tell you when I wore them.
Her version about tony clifton is amazing..so detailed.
She has a great God given memory!
Incredible
Opens with "Love Story" Taylor Swift
haha
A conversation with Marilu would blow my mind 🙂
@Operation Agatha Gee, u shld do stand -up, from the gutter, moron.
Marilu Henner (or anyone with Hyperthymesia) would be a great person with whom to test the Mandela Effect. Just saw GuyFox (2 years ago) had the same idea.
I ask a question can she remember a book which she has read????
CBS! I don't mind the ads if they don't paralyze the video!
Do you remember my Mom meeting you at the airport? I was a baby and you asked to hold me.
I have a friend who can do that! It always amazed the rest of us but I didn’t know it was quite that rare!
its only rare because no one really cares enough to give anyone who can a second thought. Or, the right people who are intrigued enough to study those who can, most of us never meet. there are far more of us than the world knows about
Wiki says the 60 Minutes show said there are 20 verified cases. The 6 figure was in TV Guide for some reason.
My elder brother doesn't remembers at evening if he eaten lunch today.
Liked the Mary Lou song loved taxi
I just wonder if and what the down side is to organizing your memory so strictly and orderly..
If you verified any of the dates with the day and the year you would realize she is wrong about what she saying.. she thinks she remembers that's what's important. It's good that we all try to remember things but what day they happened on there's a reason she can't remember but thinks she can. She could watch this video in realize she was wrong well holding a digital calendar in her hand verifying each date and day with the year 1975
I read of another woman who has a similar type of memory. She said one of the down sides is. You remember everything. Including the bad stuff. Most of us block out bad moments. But with a super memory, it's like it just happened. So, a lot of memory people have deep depression because it's so vivid.
remembering the bad stuff doesnt mean your going to be depressed because of it. Time and knowledge takes away the pain.
@lovedisney95 No.. it's on the fourth Thursday of November.. not always the same date..
wow!
what day did she last get her hair dyed?
Who is doing the interview?
Superpower
I think like Marilou! I thought everyone thinks like us. I bought her book ! I freaked out. I married a Psychiatrist! He’s the one who noticed my memory and brought it to my attention! My parents freak out the most! I remember every detail as she said in movie clip form ! Going back to age 2!
I’m great with dates also and details! I should have been a Lawyer !
If you are telling the truth you can be a billionaire
You could still be a lawyer! :)
If you saw The Paper Chase (film - 1973? - i do not have the gift) one knows that pure memory doesn't make a lawyer successful. (Do not know if that is true, but it is Hollywood.)
If your story is true then perhaps the gift is not all that rare. Good for you.
I have the opposite disorder and am kind of jealous.
my daughter has this memory.........omg,she astounds us and the people at the office with her memory for dates and when things happened
Yeah people are so gullible
that's so crazy. I didn't realize she was so capable like that. Impressive.
People's gullibility is impressive
I want her super powers😍
I can't forget her
I can remember like that I have what I read I was a super ager.age 12 when I began to like rain, storms sitting on grandmother porch, scary things I can remember in detail nothing tragedy.
I wonder if she forgot the hosts name (she should have thanked her w at the end). Love Marilu!! 🙌🏻❤️💪🏻⚡️💯📺
Lucky her! She will pass every test she ever takes!
I can't remember what I ate for breakfast. I don't even know what today's date is. This isn't fair although there are plenty drunken nights I would never want to remember
...currently I'm working with OMH on restoring the human chronometer, with 10 year timeline method, which weighs out 10 pro's and 10 con's in the client, customer, patient, subject box. Since we're all factotums of all 4 boxes, the kinemetics can be applied through a computer set up between the DMV and Probation to project the license and conjugate the registration in a complete OHM for personal inventory between both sides of CASA, under the self governing body of OASAS. This woman has a gift, she's the perfect example if she would lead by applying her skill to this project designed to place a log and EKG inside a new 4 wheel mountain bike nebulizer, corrosion liner design, which morphs into a boat before you hit the water..its yet to be approved by the Carpenters weld, if I can meet the September deadline to be donated as the new boyscout and girlscout red cross bike,,, its the nucleus to a promised home base facilitated free agency, taken away from the Federation of Interstate Teams back in 82 by Teamsters, until the time free agencies were finally fully deployed. That time has been here and gone like " a bribge to nowhere " , so if Linda Clark is ready for this donation, from Linda Emerys son...you need to contact ' Peers helping Peers ' , so we can get this Co - op. set up already, and kick off this " Common Goal Safety Incentive " supporting all sponsors and vendors through their subscription to the Saturday and Sunday D & C newspaper, or whatever local newspaper that have those Sunday comics and inserts, as well as the homes and wheels inserts on Saturday...so much more to this, that I have to bring to the table for comp. & disability...if it be Gods will.
I also remembered my whole life since i was around 2 or 3 yr old but i dont remembered the dates 🙄
I have a similar thing and it's not really that much fun to be honest because you remember everything even the things that you want to try to forget and you see them over and over and over
In Blacklist S2E2 a woman has the same autobiographical memory. condition 'Hyperthymesia", and in it she is asked the day of the week on 20th Dec 2010, exactly when this interview was aired, coincidence?
She CAN give exact detail of everything the entire day, they just didn't show it on this clip. The weather that day in her location (which can be confirmed), it she was at an event what she was wearing (video recording has confirms that too). Marilu is so smart, Successful and attractive. Such a positive and fun loving person....unlike you.
I deal with a less impressive version of this. It's weird to me that they always use the days of the week as the thing you use to tell that these folks are remembering it. I don't know what day of the week it is in a normal waking day. I remember that certain events happened on a particular Thursday (when I was in Grade 11 my sibling had a brown belt ceremony and I went to arts awards at my school. I borrowed a friend's feather boa while at the event and I won an award for scriptwriting) because at these specific times in my life, the day of the week distinctly coloured the day. But I don't keep track of what day it is normally, so why would I suddenly be able to remember it if I were asked? But I can't count the memories I have from before I learned how to read.
I remember trying to eat my party hat on my first birthday and what my uncle wore and how they told me to smile and I did what I thought was smiling, but when they said, "she's grinning" I got a bit upset because I didn't realize those were the same thing and thought I did something wrong. I remember the day I realized I had finally memorized how to spell my name (I was 2 and a half or 3, probably 3) and I was writing it out on a green piece of paper in the spare room in my grandparents' house. I remember what corner of the room I was in and that I got excited and ran and told my family, because they told me they wouldn't let me go to school until I learned how to spell my name. (I started school at 3.)
I remember the things my mom tried to bribe me with saying I could get when we moved to try and make the divorce go easier on me. I remember getting my ears pierced at 2 with piercing guns at a mall parlor a few weeks before Easter, and seeing the photo booth and realizing I'd stopped crying from the pain. There was a day in my grade 9 business class where the teacher asked us when our earliest memory was from to explain something. He suggested 7 years old as being the youngest and that's the first time it really occurred to me that most people don't remember things from before the age of 5.
But I couldn't map any of it out as specifically as this.
Also I think it's way more common than people think it is. My dad had a memory like this too. It just seems like maybe a little bit much to try and find a doctor to confirm you have a thing that is actually kind of cool. Most people don't feel the need to do that. (Like where would I even begin to get it confirmed? I don't care enough and the people who believe me believe me.)
Oh, also, my grandmother (from my other side) also claimed to remember at least something from every year of her life. She shared a lot of memories with me and I never felt reason to doubt it.
It's like movie flashbacks.
i have 1 pair of underwear. since 1996. i remember where i bought it but i forgot which day
She also won’t forget meeting my mom
@squirreljester2
Hi.
Yes,there might be ways of calculating the dates,but that is not how she is doing.I can tell it cos I myself have this same capacity and it simply happens as simple as remembering the names of people around you. Of course that nobody can verify personal info she gives, but there are actually many ways of knowing this memory is for real: you can check weather records, records of other events which took place and so on.
I am glad we know what she was wearing. What about Carter or the President during that time.
@Canoe571 Right, I'm assuming there are six living people with it, and twenty verified cases ever.
She's cool. And smart.
I can’t remember why I ended up on this site? Ahhh now I remember!
Marilu or CBS, This weekend, at age 67, Sat. Oct. 17, 2020, after a lifetime of severe depression and suicidal feelings because I thought something was wrong with me but did not know what to do, and the scales fell from my eyes and the experience set me free! How do ya like THEM apples? ;-)
I know she has an outstanding memory but does anyone check to see accuracy of her dates ?
Yeah takes about four seconds to realize she was wrong about what Day it was on those dates in 1975
I remember significant dates but rarely the days of the week. For example I remember that on Aug 14, 2009 i went to the zoo, and april 22, 2005 (which btw was a Friday) i passed notes to my best friend in high school in art class and then left the school early...I remember april 24, 2005 i had a phone call from a friend so i left to the other room to talk to him...I don't know if these memory recalls are weird because to me it seems normal. you guys tell me LOL
@stewieg71 Except it would be easy as hell to test it by just checking a calendar and seeing whether she's making mistakes. It's easy for me to believe that if you can nail down the day of the week and the date that you could also recall the weather that day, major events etc. I've seen her do this years ago on talk shows, so if she's faking it she's always faked it and no one's tripped her up.
I can't help think that both of them were contestants on the Apprentice.
she love to talk about her safe all the time....
Timothy kramer best autobiographical memory on planet... gonna happen she talks about herself!
huh?
I think that would be both a great and a bad thing to have, because when bad things happen you will never forget.
I think we have everything in our brains but we cannot do this retrieval like these special people. But I believe we retain so much in our memories but lose track of all that is within our brain. These amazing people can put their finger on details for any given date. Like they can control data from a computer only it's their mind. It's so hard to understand how this is possible. The movie RAINMAN made this a very well known phenomenon. Prior to that hardly anyone knew about such a freaky deaky and amazing ability experienced by so few people.
Fiction helps people believe things that aren't true. Did you watch this video a lot of people believed it and did not verify anything she said. People are very gullible
She seems like she would keep a diary and have a lot of photos. If you keep going back to that it would be a lot easier to remember her past Eg clothes she wore on her date
So...I have superior recall, but it manifests quite differently for me than it manifests for these persons. Although I think what they do is no doubtedly impressive, I, personally, actively disregard explicitly calendrical data...and other types of 'parsed' memory...in favor of associations. What I mean is this: I focus more on what information means as opposed to its declarative nature.
I have a particular problem remembering names. I might forget the names of important aquintances after not seeing them for one month...which is embarrassing...but, when it comes to facts about academic type knowledge, people often call me a human Google, because they can ask me a question about general knowledge, and I can retrieve that data faster than it can be looked up on Google, plus my data is more reliable and has more depth than can be easily retrieved from Google.
With all that said, it can be difficult to have such a recall when it comes to personal interactions. Commonly, I recall things with the people that I interact with and they have no recall of it whatsoever.
To me, ten years or ten days...when it comes to facts...makes no difference in my recall. So I often feel that I am talking about things with people over and over again, yet to them, it seems as if these things we've talked about are far in the past, or worse, that the discussion never occurred at all. It does tend to cause arguments, because I say, "Well, you said this," and they have not recall of it at all, yet to me, it's crystal clear.
I do believe that I could significantly enhance my calendrical and 'autobiographical' memory if I wished, but it's not important to me, and my superior recall gets me in enough hot water as it is.
Shes got 3!
20 people!
I, seriously, thought everyone could do this. But I knew there were others.
I'd love to see her academic ratings.
She is supposed to be very smart.
She is cute. Invaluable asset for actors!
there are actually 33 confirmed to date with this condition
61 now.