This YouTube video by Official W51 describes Emily Nash’s remarkable ability. Another video available on Seek Reality Online explains other people who have hyperthymesia abilities.
The Mistaken Idea Memories Are Stored in the Brain
A common misunderstanding suggests that memories stem from precise neural firing patterns, almost like each memory possesses its own designated circuitry within the brain. Under this mistaken notion, every memory, from one’s earliest recollections to the latest experiences, is thought to be permanently engraved in the brain, accessible by merely toggling a switch to establish the required electrical connections. For example, it’s believed that the memory of a particular birthday party is stored in a distinct brain location, coexisting with all other memories. Consequently, it’s assumed that millions of neurons are exclusively dedicated to each memory, unable to be reallocated for other functions.
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Scientific Bases for Asserting the Mind Could Not Hold a Lifetime of Memories
American computer science expert Simon Berkovich and Dutch brain researcher Herms Romijn, working independently of one another, came to the same conclusion: that it is impossible for the brain to store everything you think and experience in your life. This would require a processing speed of 1024 bits per second. Simply watching an hour of television would already be too much for our brains. “If you want to store that amount of information—along with the associative thoughts produced—your brain would be pretty much full,” van Lommel says. “Anatomically and functionally, it is simply impossible for the brain to have this level of speed.”2
Various sources estimate that between 50,000 and 100,000 brain cells perish daily. Despite this ongoing loss and the continual renewal of molecules within each brain cell approximately 10,000 times during a lifetime, vivid memories from our childhood, including detailed recollections of numerous places we’ve visited, persist. Individuals in advanced age often experience flashback memories with exceptional clarity of events from decades past.
Dean Radin also cites Paul A. Weiss, a pioneering figure in biology research from Vienna’s Institute of Experimental Biology, who underscores the remarkable endurance of memories despite the turnover of brain cells and the replacement of molecules within them.
And yet, despite that ceaseless change of detail in that vast population of elements, our basic patterns of behavior, our memories, our sense of integral existence as an individual, have retained their unitary continuity of pattern.3
Memories are not stored in the brain. They are accessible from Our Universal Intelligence, the basis of existence when we intend to recall them. I explain how memories are stored and retrieved in another article.
Kim Peek Memorized More Than 12,000 Books
Other evidence the memories are not produced by or stored in the brain is in the capabilities of memory savants such as Kim Peek. Kim Peek, the real-life inspiration behind the film “Rain Man” starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, had macrocephaly, which caused damage to his cerebellum. He didn’t acquire the ability to walk until he was four years old and continued to walk in a sideways manner throughout his life. He struggled with tasks like buttoning his shirt and faced difficulties with various motor activities. Additionally, his IQ score was notably below average.
Despite his limitations, Peek possessed an extraordinary memory ability. He accomplished the remarkable feat of memorizing over 12,000 books and had an encyclopedic knowledge spanning geography, music, literature, history, sports, and nine other fields. His memory was so exceptional that he effortlessly remembered all the area codes in the United States, along with major city zip codes. Moreover, he memorized telephone book maps and could provide precise directions for traveling between US cities, even detailing the streets within those cities.
Such vast amounts of information couldn’t possibly be contained within the limited capacity of the brain. Memories are accessed from Our Universal Intelligence, not the brain. That fact demonstrates that when the body dies, the mind outside of the body continues to function. There is no death and there are no dead.
2 Touber, T. (2007, January). Life goes on. Ode 29.
2 Radin, D. (1997). The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
3 “Meet a Canadian Teen Gifted with a Super-Powered Memory: W5 Investigation,” CTV News Network, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MlFheM5Tf8.
