The Downsides of Perfect Memory
4 min readApr 11, 2021
What if you could remember every event of your life? When I was a student in college taking psychology courses, the study of memory fascinated me. In particular learning about a certain group of people with ‘High superior autobiographical memory’ or HSAM for short who have extraordinary ability to remember nearly everything. Imagine being able to recall the details from “every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between…