Not ordinary memory

There are many different kinds of memory.

This is not like what we think of as "ordinary" simply ramped up.

For most of us, what we think of when we think of memory would, in someone with superior recall, be closer to the eidetic memory.

Autobiographic memory is, in most people, one of the weakest forms, and the one most conflated with personal narratives.

According to Jill Price, her inability for narrative to replace personal experience as it fades, and its unsummoned recall to present in full livid detail is something of a curse. Every slight is as if it were in the present; along with the negative emotions associated with it.

For the rest of us, we might realize that we were wrong to have felt embarrassed by something in hindsight. But the memories have no hindsight for her.

And, when she is not consciously summoning them, the come unbidden in a chain of associations. Her other forms of memory are rather impaired by her brain's occupation with her past.

Dante