Photographic Memories?

[naosu]

Hello new friends...

So I wanted to post this here, and ask what you think?

I added a 2nd link in to add more information.
The idea is I'm trying to build a story and transition them from having normal human skills to becoming more than human. And in that process photographic memory comes up. See how it fits in?
This means, what if you had a photographic memory first, and then at some point became more than human and somehow evolved with exposure to... supernatural energy... it offers a new approach to a story more than just... whoosh you got grabbed to go to some Isekai world without giving your permission to go there.

Are readers interested in an approach like this instead with photographic memory getting to a point of unlocking something else?
Or a story on something like psychic crime solving abilities like psychometry (there are manga on psychometry already). But it doesn't come up if people are interested in it very much or how much they like it?

 

[Rezcore]

Just a suggestion, we know more about our galaxy than our ocean, and more about our ocean than our brains, we don't even understand the mind or consciousness. So take everything that purports to be definitive about either with a ton of salt.

 

[beast_regards]

My experience with the photographic memory is only through musing of my mother about the eccentric professor of psychology, which tried to teach his students how to property memorize things. I, of course, never met the man - it was 50 years ago, and only found out through the idle musing of my mother. He (at least according to my mother) claimed you should "take a photoshot" with your brain, and then recall and read it anytime you need. He also supposedly believed you could record the conversation in the room with your brain, and then recite it word for word when needed. As far as my mother could tell, his idea never worked on anyone else, and everyone in the school hated the man, so it is dubious whether his genius technique ever worked. Not to mention, the guy was supposed to be kinda creep, fired from the prestigious university for a relationship with his student (and making her pregnant, it was a scandal). Of course, they transferred him to school where 90% percent of students were girls, because, well, he certainly won't try to do it again ... so, I suppose his memory technique was probably the way to encourage "private lessons" if you know what I mean.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I've seen fiction handle the photographic memory thing differently. The one that seems the most accurate from what I've read from psychiatrists was Mike on Suits - who had perfect recall of anything he'd ever read. The least accurate but coolest was Poppy Montgomery's character on Unforgettable (sadly, only the gorgeous actress and the "freeze frame" effect for her memory were the only unforgettable things about that show and I don't think it got a full season), who could revisit any scene she had been a part of (except her sister's kidnapping) by "freezing" the image and wandering around it, looking at everything there, even small things most people would not consider.