Data point from me. I also think I have terrible ability to remember places or directions. I feel like it is maybe because I am not paying attention to all the details. I would think I am at the very least bottom 5 percent performer.
People say something like "oh we turned from here, I remember this building". I wonder how they are remembering something like that and why I never do.
I feel many of my anxious situations in life have been where I was asked to do something where people expected me to know where to go and I just had no idea.
I think textually, but not seeing text, rather hearing it as one continous line of thought and maybe some odd less focused lines of thought in parallel.
I had a cognitive abilities test done by a psychologist. Visual memory was one of the worst percentually.
The test included I think some sort of drawing with lines and recreating it later in the test after doing some other activities inbetween.
Strongest area was abstract logical reasoning. Which was top 1 percent.
But my main concerns were memory and why I did the test in the first place.
> oh we turned from here, I remember this building". I wonder how they are remembering something like that and why I never do.
My memory is primarily visual such that I can replay a video like experience in my head of a lot of events. This extends to things like spellings which I will recall as a visual representation of the word.
How would you even have the storage room for a video. Not doubting, but just crazy to think for me. It probably must be some very deeply compressed video that gets reconstructed from objects from the internal structure somehow and then perhaps constructed runtime, meaning it won't be the same everytime.
People say something like "oh we turned from here, I remember this building". I wonder how they are remembering something like that and why I never do.
I feel many of my anxious situations in life have been where I was asked to do something where people expected me to know where to go and I just had no idea.
I think textually, but not seeing text, rather hearing it as one continous line of thought and maybe some odd less focused lines of thought in parallel.
I had a cognitive abilities test done by a psychologist. Visual memory was one of the worst percentually.
The test included I think some sort of drawing with lines and recreating it later in the test after doing some other activities inbetween.
Strongest area was abstract logical reasoning. Which was top 1 percent.
But my main concerns were memory and why I did the test in the first place.