In the final leg of this memory journey, Paige and Hannah talk about why vampires remember everything that happens to them after the transformation and consider Bella's claim that she struggles to remember things that happened to her as a human because her senses were so much worse. Topics of note will include: photographic memory, *real* people who remember everything that ever happened to them, and cases through history of people who have regained their sight.

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Our intro and outro music:

In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910)

Note: The book Eclipse doesn't say how the newborn army got to the clearing, so the decision to film the vampires coming out of the lake was purely artistic. Also, because Virgil was a pseudonym, Paige was unable to determine if he's still alive or what happened to him after 1993.

Links:

Sacks' article on Virgil

Cases of regained sight (New Yorker)

Synesthesia and eidetic memory

Synesthesia and calendar dates

People are biologically coded to recognize faces ("greeble" study)

Eidetic imagery definition

Hypermnesia

Highly Super Autobiographical Memory (HSAM)

Jim McGaugh's original HSAM study

60 Minutes US and Australia

Sleep-consolidation study

HSAM and sleep quality

Why we sleep

Sleep and memory

Benefits of sleep

"Sleep-Dependent Consolidation of Memory"

Blindness and neuroplasticity

Occipital lobe and regained sight