She spoke softly and the communication was more like speaking with the mind. I remember her telling me it was my time to go to Earth and be … born. I responded that I wanted to stay there, where I was safe. I have had this memory as far back as I can remember and it has been a comfort to me all of my life. Share Now. Copy Link. Beyond Science. Tara MacIsaac is an editor and reporter who has worked on a variety of topics over the course of her ten years with The Epoch Times, including science, the environment, and local New York news.
View profile. December 25, Updated: December 24, Donna Lu: Most of us can remember what we had for breakfast this morning, but if you tried, could you remember what you had for breakfast on this day, a week ago or even further back on this date last year? Or five years ago? In all likelihood, probably not — but Rebecca Sharrock can remember.
She's one of the very small group of people in the world — about sixty known cases — who have a rare condition known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, or HSAM. Becky is unable to forget all of her birthdays, emotional events and even dreams, and has been dating them since by crossing off each day in the calendar.
Rebecca Sharrock: The condition I have…there's a few things I've got. I've got autism, I've got obsessive compulsive disorder, general anxiety, but the most unusual condition I have is called HSAM, which is an acronym for Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, and it makes me unable to forget any day of my life since I was a newborn child.
Donna Lu: And Becky, when did you first realise that your memory wasn't like most other people's? Rebecca Sharrock: Initially, I thought my memory was quite average. I did notice that I dwelled on things a little bit more than usual, but I just put that down to my obsessive compulsive disorder which makes me fixate on thoughts and ideas more. But when I was twenty one, my parents showed me a news segment that they'd watched before. It was on the 23 rd of January , and they showed me this news segment about a small group of people who had a really unusual memory where they could remember back to when they were children and every day since then, and when those people on the news segment were describing their detailed recollections I turned to my mom and said, "Why are they calling that unusual?
Isn't it normal to remember that way? So, I was half listening and went, "Yeah, ok, you can send them an email, but I wasn't expecting a response back. But two weeks later we did get a response back, and they said they were willing to test me to see if I had HSAM and I wasn't a hundred percent sure if I did have HSAM, so those tests did scare me a bit. But after two years of many different kinds of tests which were mainly done over Skype in the early hours of the morning our time, in May , I was identified by the UCI as having HSAM.
Donna Lu: And Janet, I just want to bring you in now. When did you first notice something unusual about Becky's memory? She has a very, very good memory. And then even as a very young child, she must have been about 4, I gave her dinner and she said, "Do you know that we had this two weeks ago on a Friday? What did you have for dinner yesterday? So, I mean I knew she had a very good memory, yeah.
Donna Lu: And then was it that news segment that kind of tweaked that it wasn't just And that was the light bulb moment for me. It was the look on their face. I noticed that happened, so when I saw the segment, I sort of got a list of dates sorted for Becky and I'd tested her and she did the same thing, and I had never noticed it before; and that sort of cemented it as well. It was the way she It sounds quite strange, but it's almost the way they recollect is similar.
Donna Lu: So, Becky, what I might do now is ask you what you remember about a few specific dates. So, the first one is the 22nd January Rebecca Sharrock: And on that particular day, it was 2 weeks after my mum's birthday. I didn't watch the news that day, but I know the in the newspapers — and especially the Sunday Mail ,which I read two days before — Kevin Rudd had Rebecca Sharrock: The 21st July was a Saturday, and that was a major event of my life personally, because it was the very last day that a book from the Harry Potter series was released.
It's when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released as a book. Rebecca Sharrock: That day…I didn't go to the shops myself, because due to my autism I couldn't deal because the shops were mayhem and everyone was rushing trying to get that book. So, my stepdad went and got us all a copy from Big W.
So, when he came home, he brought in the book, and that's what I did for the rest of the day. I just And it didn't take long as well because I have insomnia, because of the memories going through my mind, and my mind's always so busy and active and I can't sleep well at night because of it, but I found the if I could read Harry Potter, it would put me to sleep as a nine-year-old.
So I thought to myself, I'm going to have to find a way where I can read Harry Potter but have my eyes closed. So I thought, I'll have to learn to recite the books, and that's when I taught myself — and I learnt in a rote-learning way — to learn different chapters of the books.
Donna Lu: That's incredible. So if I started reading some passages from different Harry Potter books Indeed by next morning Harry and Ron thought that meeting the three-headed dog had been an excellent adventure, and they were quite keen to have another one.
Donna Lu: That's amazing. Donna Lu: Yes it is. That is just incredible. How long did that take you to learn it all? Rebecca Sharrock: It depends. I'm now learning the new Harry Potter books — I'm learning to recite those as well. I find to do three pages of a chapter…well, I call a page, you know, one side. So, technically that's six pages.
But I find on average to do six regular book-sized pages, that takes me an hour. Rebecca Sharrock : Yeah. And I just I break it up too.
I just remember a chunk of it, and it helps if I just have something — a ball in my hand — and just close my eyes, trying to remember. If I'm distracted I can't do it, but if I'm just in silence with a ball, just a little stress ball or something, I can I find a can do it.
Donna Lu: Incredible. It is probably best not to pump a child for information, nor to try and prevent him or her from saying such things. If you are a parent seeking advice about your child who seems to remember a previous life, please refer to Dr. We are very interested in hearing about cases of young children who are currently spontaneously speaking about memories of a previous life. If you are a parent or a caretaker of a young child, please email our research assistant, Diane Morini at dsm3j virginia.
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