Teenager with hyperthymesia exhibits extraordinary mental time travel abilities

Teenager With Exceptional “Mental Time Travel” Abilities Sees Past And Future With Rare Clarity

Her memories were stored in a file inside an imaginary room, from which they could be retrieved and relived.

Teenager with hyperthymesia exhibits extraordinary mental time travel abilities

A new case study describes a teenage girl with an extraordinary ability to recall personal memories in vivid detail and mentally revisit specific moments in her life at will. Her experiences reflect a rare condition known as hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory. The report, published in Neurocase, highlights her unusual capacity for mental time travel—not only into the past, but also into imagined futures—offering researcher…