The Peculiar Truth about People Who Remember Everything

Dan Spencer
The Peculiar Truth
Published in
3 min readApr 2, 2024

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Actress Marilu Henner; image Wikimedia Commons
  • Hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), has been exhibited in extremely few people worldwide and is something akin to a mental superpower.
  • They can readily recall precisely what happened on almost every day of their lives.
  • For instance, when asked where they were and what they were doing at noon on August 13, 1998 — or…

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Dan Spencer
The Peculiar Truth

Author of over a dozen novels, including Tight Five. I publish The Peculiar Truth every Tuesday. https://medium.com/the-peculiar-truth