2008-02-24

Best Memory in the World

Today's Yahoo! pushes this article to top story section: A man and a woman who can remember every single day in their life like rewinding a movie.

How scary is that?

"Most have called it a gift, but I call it a burden," she wrote. "I run my entire life through my head every day and it drives me crazy!!!"

Quoted from the journal. A burden, exactly. Compared with difficulty to remember anything, remembering everything can be a greater misfortune. Think about elves in contrast to mortal men. Their brains are like a huge pool saving every drop of information that flows in, while normal people have another pipe called forgetting.

Human brains are amazing machinery. The potential in this man and woman probabily lie deep in every one of us, with perhaps one trigger in genes. What are we gonna do if we are bestowed this ability? Are we literally going to be haunted by our own shadows?

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