Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-06 10:34 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-06 10:34 pm
Clearances
I went off on this one some time ago.
When I was young, I discovered a particular esoteric talent of mine: I could "record" two seconds or so of information, save it, and recall it, by the mnemonic device of snapping my fingers twice to begin recording, twice to save, and twice to recall all messages in the queue (I could store a few, up to seven, I think).
To keep a message in memory, I would re-save it each time.
After a while, as I discovered writing on my hand and no longer used it as heavily, the device became less reliable, but I still used it on occasion.
While at DeVry, though, I had occasion to use it to store the message, "Get bus pass." I was walking down the south end of the east hallway with Darkside, past the bookstore, and I saved the message.
Darkside looked at me, snapped his fingers twice, said something brief, then snapped twice again. I was about to tell him that it didn't work...
...then I checked storage.
It had saved.
I freaked out, mildly, because no one else is really supposed to be able to save to that...
But hey. What's a little mind-tampering between best friends, when I had to have given consent or it wouldn't have happened? He does more to influence my mind by just talking to me and giving gentle advice than he does by directly going in and saving things to my message system.
When I was young, I discovered a particular esoteric talent of mine: I could "record" two seconds or so of information, save it, and recall it, by the mnemonic device of snapping my fingers twice to begin recording, twice to save, and twice to recall all messages in the queue (I could store a few, up to seven, I think).
To keep a message in memory, I would re-save it each time.
After a while, as I discovered writing on my hand and no longer used it as heavily, the device became less reliable, but I still used it on occasion.
While at DeVry, though, I had occasion to use it to store the message, "Get bus pass." I was walking down the south end of the east hallway with Darkside, past the bookstore, and I saved the message.
Darkside looked at me, snapped his fingers twice, said something brief, then snapped twice again. I was about to tell him that it didn't work...
...then I checked storage.
It had saved.
I freaked out, mildly, because no one else is really supposed to be able to save to that...
But hey. What's a little mind-tampering between best friends, when I had to have given consent or it wouldn't have happened? He does more to influence my mind by just talking to me and giving gentle advice than he does by directly going in and saving things to my message system.
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I have a friend who was getting her Ph.D. in cognitive psych, and I was her favorite guinea pig. Because she was having people do things like listen to a tone, solve a math problem, then listen to a second tone and be able to tell whether it was higher, lower, or the same as the first tone. (There were other tests where you were simply distinguishing between tones, for variety.) I could not only do this with a very high degree of accuracy, I could do it down to the threshold of where your ear is supposed to be able to physically distinguish between tones...about 6 mhz difference. I could do it at 7 mhz difference with 70-80% accuracy; there wasn't a test for 6 mhz because she didn't think anyone would be able to do it even at 7. For some perspective, most people were getting 40-50% at 10 or 12 mhz, where I was getting 90%. I could perform similar feats with visual information as well, though those tests were somewhat different...noticing and remembering a particular bit of information on the periphery of your vision when there was a lot of other stuff going on.
Happy fun brain tricks...
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Just a really weird mnemonic.
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