Is there a way to hypnotize yourself so that you can have a photographic memory?

Is there a way to hypnotize yourself so that you can have a photographic memory and remember more of what you see, hear, read, etc?

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Mark says...

So an eidetic memory is what they call a photographic memory and between two and 10% of children have this, and then they kind of grow out of it. Often because memory becomes more to do with language and auditory memory and and so forth, but this visual sort of eidetic or photographic memory is pretty common in young kids.

Now we we do have sessions on the site for remembering what you read and you know developing a better memory specifically we don't have a photographic memory one, but as I say strictly speaking that's to do with visualization, so it depends what you mean by photographic memory. If somebody tells me something and I remember it then that's not it's an auditory memory really, but we can sort of revivify experiences of when we were very young using hypnosis, and that might be a way of enhancing visual memory. And also simply practising looking in the garden or looking at a corner of a room, then closing your eyes and reexperiencing that inwardly would be a way of enhancing that quality.

We don't have a specific session at the moment for developing a photographic memory or developing a better eidetic memory but that's maybe something we consider in future.

But but certainly I would say that hypnosis would be a very promising approach to improving visual memory, certainly, and all kinds of other memories. One very good way of improving memory of what you're reading for example is to imagine teaching what you're learning, that seems to be a very good way, or describing it to someone else. So you just read a principle in a book of something and you can imagine or even practise describing this to a friend, or if you're reading a history book you you might imagine explaining to a friend what you've just learned. And that seems to be a very powerful way of improving your memory for what you're reading.