π§ Imagine remembering every single day of your life — with every emotion intact. One teen can.
Meet TL, a teenager in France with hyperthymesia — a rare condition that gives her near-perfect autobiographical memory.
She can recall every day of her life in extraordinary detail, from sights and sounds to the emotions she felt. In her mind, these memories are stored in a vivid “white room,” a mental library where every toy, book, and photograph she’s ever owned is neatly organized.
Even painful moments are compartmentalized — her grandfather’s death, for instance, is sealed in a mental chest.
But TL’s ability doesn’t stop with the past.
She can also “pre-experience” imagined future events, feeling a strange dΓ©jΓ vu for things that haven’t yet occurred.
Scientists studying her unique mind hope her case will help unlock deeper understanding of how the brain processes memory, imagination, and identity — the essence of what makes us human.
Source:
πΉ “Autobiographical hypermnesia as a particular form of mental time travel,” Neurocase, Aug 19, 2024

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