The ability of photographic memory!

People with photographic memories say that can see pages in their mind's eyes and can simply read them. The truth of such memory has been demonstrated repeatedly, with people reciting whole pages from one look. Also, situations and scenes can be recalled with great precision. Photographic memory embraces memorizing shapes, colors with their full tones, proportions, even recalling the spirit of a scene or of a character with intimate and intensified feelings for those objects.

Leonardo da Vinci is believed to have had a photographic memory. He was able to draw a detailed portrait of someone after a single meeting. Another person, Napoleon Bonaparte, could glance at a map and thereafter, recall every town, hill and stream on it.

I believe very much in such ability from my own experience. One day, I had watched a movie and was influenced so much by the actress's character and her loyalty. When went home, I had done an oil painting capturing her portrait from memory. My father found it so real that he thought of sending it to her but I could not let go.

Mona Youssef