I remember feelings, moods, meanings...stuff like that. For instance, I have to think for a bit to conjure up real childhood memories, but I can tell you want I felt and how and when way before I can give you details.
My childhood memories seem to center around what I was realizing, even if it was just a state of awareness. I remember most of the details related to what caused me to reach an insight or emotional state, primarily concepts and understandings that to this day I couldn't explain if I had to. Granted, these can involve a lot of mundane details, most of them visual, and few of them audible. Seems like my mind bases memory priority from childhood around Ni. Imagine that.
I remember faces a lot better than names. One time, an old classmate's mother greeted me, and then we had a twenty-minute conversation during which i somehow managed to not have to say her name once. phew.
I remember dreams from the night before and stuff like that a lot better than what I have to do later on that night. i now have a habit of writing everything on the back of my hand to remind me.
Dates and numbers ? i'm terrible with those.
Ditto, except I can remember numbers when they have relevance to others. I can remember people's phone numbers, birthdays, how much money I owe them. The random numbers that I encounter that have no relationship to the people I care about? I do well to remember them long enough to transcribe them.
I remember faces better then names. Like on my tennis team, there is a girl who I'm really sure that I've met before but I don't know where.
I almost never forget faces, and it doesn't take me long to place the face and recall the setting where I met or last saw the person in great detail, like what they were wearing, what I was feeling, the gist of the conversation, the general vibes on them between us, etc. But, ironically, I couldn't tell you their name, or make anything resembling an accurate quote of anything they said or I said. But, if there was any physical contact, I can recall it in vivid detail.
I have a similar memory, good at remembering faces but not names (but then, you see a face a lot more than you say a name) but I can remember certain numbers for pretty much forever, such a money that is owed/I borrowed and how much certain things cost. I'm usually really bad with numbers and dates (I find birthdays quite hard to remember, but I make a point of remembering) but with money it's easier because I guess it's physical and not just a vague idea/concept.
I'm very good at remembering the storylines of books and films too, it's very useful for english literature and film studies
Yup, this also sounds a lot like me.
I remember how someone or something made me feel, I will get an emotional/physical sensation that will change my mood, just by seeing a certain person, place or thing. I recall hardly a concrete mental picture memory about my childhood, rather facts that caused me to feel as tho most of it was extremely unpleasant and worth avoiding. I think I have blocked it out for the most part, I still to this day, cannot see a thing when I close my eyes. I cannot see my children's faces, I cannot see my own or what my car looks like from the inside. I KNOW what all these things look like as I am familiar with them when I see them infront of me, but I cannot see them in my head. I have only memory of facts about what my children look like, or what my car looks like... blond hair, brown eyes etc. I can hear to the last of tiniest detail, a song, a conversation, a sound etc... Audio is well remembered and experienced.
Wow, this is almost the opposite of how my mind works. I don't even have to close my eyes to remember not only the people that are closest to me, but I can visualize most of the photos of you that I've seen while I'm typing this. I can remember not only the inside of my own car, but the inside of nearly any car I've ever been in, right down to the vibes and smells, and where I have been in those cars, and what was going on when I was there. In contrast, I have to know someone extremely well, and have had a lot of contact with them to be able to recall their voice, and even then it is vague and I can't remember them actually speaking.
I don't have an eidetic memory, nor a photographic memory. I have a visual memory. I couldn't tell you how many stripes someone had on their sweater and in what order the colors were. But, I can recall that someone was wearing a striped sweater that was mostly dark blue, light blue, and maybe white. My memory is predominantly vibes, intentions, and relationships. I can recall the emotional state of the person in the striped sweater, and how it related to myself and anyone else, in vivid detail.
All of these posts are showing a fascinating trend, which is that the mind prioritizes memory based on our dominant cognitive function. For INFJs, that's Introverted Intuition. For INFPs, that Introverted Feeling. For ENTPs and ENFPs, it's Extroverted Intuition.
This is fascinating because it is yet another key into the assessment of cognitive function type. By developing an accurate model of how each of the 8 cognitive functions associate and prioritize memory, we can add another set of assessment questions and proofs.
I'm also seeing a trend for how memory is then influenced by the secondary function. For instance, Extroverted Feeling flavors the types of memories INFJ keep, which center around their emotional involvement with others - like remembering birthdays or money owed.
This being the case, we can identify each of the 16 cognitive function types through this method.
Fascinating indeed.
