Marilu Henner super memory

Marilu Henner super memory

Marilu Henner super memory - Rare brain condition grants actress superhuman memory, Take actress Marilu Henner (bio) out for breakfast, and 10 years from now she'll likely remember exactly what she ate—and also what you ate. That's because she has a rare brain condition that allows her to precisely recall nearly everything that enters her brain—a condition she calls "totally a gift".

"I don't lose my parents," Henner said Friday on "CBS This Morning." "I lost my parents a long time ago and it's insurance against loss. It's the strongest defense against meaninglessness that we have, and everything is connected to memory. Everything is something that we're doing (based) on our past."

Two years ago on "60 Minutes," Henner discussed her extraordinary skill, highly superior auto-biographical memory. Only 12 people in the world are known to have the same ability. While the average person can remember about 12 events from a year, people with Henner's ability can remember more than 200 events.

Henner has recently written a book called "Total Memory Makeover: Uncover Your Past, Take Charge of Your Future," in which she discusses her memory and shares tips about unlocking your own autobiographical memory.

Henner said the closest description of the way her memory works is the scene selection feature on DVD menu. She said she sees her memories as an entire year that she can scroll through, and then when she locates a particular memory, she can go into it to see dates and other various details, such as what she was wearing and who she was with at the time.

"When I saw that are for the first time I thought, 'Oh my gosh, that's how my memory works,'" she said. "All the little videos of the year sort of manifest themselves."

Her earliest memory, Henner said, is of her baptism. "My godmother was a nun, and so she'd talk about my baptism all the time," Henner said. "Even as a tiny child, I could recall that event. I know people don't believe me, but it's really true."

"Total Memory Makeover" is available in bookstores now. Henner is also a consultant for the CBS show "Unforgettable" about a detective who can remember every day of her life. You can catch the show on Tuesday nights at 10/9c on CBS.

Actress Marilu Henner’s Rare Super-Memory Recalls Every Day of Her Life, What if you could remember every single day of your life and have it available for instant recall? Everything from childhood birthday parties, Christmases, your first day of school, and your last. What were you doing that day? Who were you with? What day of the week was it? What did you have for lunch?Actress Marilu Henner says she can remember it all. And you probably remember her as Elaine Nardo from the hit TV show “Taxi.” She can recall, off the top of her head, the exact day she got the part.

“It was June 4 of 1978. It was a Sunday and I found out at the ‘Grease’ premiere party,” Henner said. “‘Taxi’ is so vivid to my mind. The very first rehearsal was July the 5th of 1978. That was a Wednesday and our first show was shot the 14th, a Friday.”

The actress, who has also starred in “L.A. Story” (1991) and “Man on the Moon” (1999), is one of only 12 people in the world diagnosed with hyperthymesia, also known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory.
Most of us can remember major events of our lives — our wedding day, for instance, or where we were on 9/11 or when President John F. Kennedy was shot. But Henner, 60, can remember specific details from almost every day of her life.She said her earliest memory is of being baptized.

“I just remember the water, and I remember the white,” she said. “Whenever I go back into memory, I’m always in my body looking out.”Henner said her memory works like a scene selection menu on a DVD, with “little videos moving simultaneously.”“When somebody gives me a date or a year or something, I see all these little movie montages, basically on a time continuum, and I’m scrolling through them and flashing through them,” she said.

She said it is a gift that helped her as an actress, but not in the way you might think.Sure, she has an easy time remembering her lines. But, perhaps more importantly, she can call to mind moments of great emotion from her own life — to help her embody her characters.“I can always remember where I first read a script or what I studied or what I liked about, things like that,” Henner said. “But definitely being an actress, I learned how to embrace my memories and celebrate them and explore them without hesitation whatsoever.”

In her new book, “Total Memory Makeover,” in stores on April 24, Henner tries to help others unlock their memories.Ironically, the actress’ husband makes a living publishing the one thing in the world she doesn’t need: calendars. Her son Nick Lieberman, 17, said he finds his mother’s memory “comforting.”“Just this idea that everything that I’ve ever done is documented somewhere in her mind,” he said.Henner said her gift is not just a parlor trick. It’s important stuff.

“It’s that defense against meaninglessness,” she said. “I’m not just occupying time. There’s some significance to what I’m doing and how I’m living my life.”
She said understanding your past is the best way to prepare for the future.

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