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Re:"Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio] by Cerium on Friday May 14, 2021 @12:46AM (#27150778)
Wow. You just made me realize that I don't (can't?) do that anymore. I used to have the exact same ability though high school. I would remember where on the page I read something or wrote a note, then during English exams I would find a quote by flipping through pages while looking only on the spot of each page I expected the quote to be on.

I can't really picture things in my head as an image, yet I think very spatially. For me it is not an image, but shapes that I can feel. I design 3d models by feeling them in my mind, where I can feel my way around the model to find problems with my design etc.

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Re:"Memory athletes" and the techniques they use [audio] by hinkley on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:05AM (#27151225)
I was going to respond to another responder that it feels like reaching up to adjust the shower head when you’re facing away, but that’s not entirely right. It’s more like... this is going to sound weird, but like it’s rotated in a higher dimension. It’s made me curious about 4D VR simulators. I had this feeling that perhaps they’d make a sort of sense to me, but the ones I’ve seen so far don’t, and I don’t know if it’s because I’m wrong, or they are.

That “feel” extends to fitting things together. I had a boss who would ask to fit something else into a UI, and every time I told him it won’t fit, he didn’t believe me. So then we had to waste a man-week to show him he was wrong, and then he would forget that I told him that already and we’d do it again in a few weeks.

Man I was so glad when he laid me off. Best severance I ever got.

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