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I keep meaning to add that I also had the perfect recall of where's in a book I had I had read something so could always pull out the reference to prove I had remembered a quote correctly when arguing with someone over the content. I have lost that skill. Not sure if I lost it through age or through 11 years of sleep deprivation and parenting 3 little forces of nature?

Ok my post just appeared twice, despite being submitted once and when I tried to delete one it just says it was edited. I'm confused.

Yes, I think so. I mean, most people genuinely don't see some of those colors as "different" from one another, even side-by-side like that.

Me, on the other hand, I can tell you which ones are the outliers. From memory. There are two in the top band, both on the yellow-green side... etc.

I can actually see which color selections I'm referring to when I write that, though. It's my experience that when I do things like that (for example, matching paint chips without reference samples, buying thread of a particular color from memory, etc) other people really notice. So I think in my case, it's only partly better vision. I think my brain is actually adapted to it somehow, as well.

I, on the other hand have an appalling visual memory. I have a 30" canvas of a photo I took and won awards for that's hung in my office for over 6 years that I can't perfectly describe. It's embarrassing. I have to "speak" what I see to myself in order to be able to recall the data later. For example in a card game of memory I need to name the cards with words as I flip them in order to remember them, no such trouble with the spatial placement, just the visual of what was on the card.

That said, while looking at a piece if clothing in a store I can generally make an excellent assessment of its match for another item in the kids wardrobes at home. Although I would not say I can "see" the item at home that I'm matching.

I have an impeccable, savant-like memory for movie scripts where I can outwardly declare them verbatim.
I also have phenomenal spatial memory where I can remember precisely where a cd is located amidst 100 on a shelf (for instance). I remember the layout of houses and location of furniture, books, and any items even if it has been years since I last saw it.

I also have trouble taking MC tests because I feel an overwhelming amount of memory for the content being measured.

this does seem to be the extent of my memories though.... It's not even "useful".