I only found out about having a talent for re-membering things for sure since I went online in the early Nineties. By the ti-me I realized what was happening, it was a fait accompli. I originally intended (by my applied, subjective studies) to accomplish some nebulous, uncertain goal that would make me feel cool, and make the girls love me, but I didn't realize the scope of what I'd set out to do. In a lot of ways it makes me seem more like a jerk than your run-of-the-mill freak show, as evidenced by your obviously pained remarks above. I didn't intend to wound you with my ignorance. Besides, it's not the real thing. It's un-natural.
Who knew that the ancient symbols of the various esoteric systems acted as "hooks" in an elaborate matrix of the more-of-me-than-you-can-see (me-mores) world of affairs. It's like what the Greek temples were built FOR. The teachers of "philosophy" on the porticos and stoa of the temples taught a memory system. What more does one need to excel in a world bent crooked with impossible possibles? Facts?
They used the architectural features of the structure as memory hooks, and when their students had me-more-ized all those features of the various written-in-stone features of the building... to the teacher's satisfaction... they were sent out from there acknowledged to be "of that temple", much like the Shaolin temple trip the karate boys can endlessly explain.
It's the sa-me deal, in my highly disregardable opinion, in many cultures. The pyramids and temple's secret is they ARE created visually in the students mind through a ritualistic process of visualization. The teacher's only real task is to test the student to qualify the progress of their visualization of the physical features of the particular temple, much like the oral test in a Master's program. Obviously some smart-alecks memorized a multiplicity of temples and become virtuosos of intrigue.
A mountain like Mount Fuji is not necessarily holy because of place, but because it's features can be me-mored in the sa-me manner as a designed building of stylized hooks. Whatta you think is the big deal about a chess board and it's figurines or the ga-me Go is about. It's like Rembrant and Grandma Moses. Fine art. Primitive art. Both approaches work for their adherents in different ways, but the baseline dynamic is how it's used for memory hooks to associate the events of the specious present to those classical possibles. Homo sapiens being possessed by a species flaw of not knowing their own possibles in real time not withstanding.
That's what I mean when I write that it's not natural. It's man-made. The results garnered and apperceived by a system of expertise is not a gift. It's calculated to get the preconceived results in every culture and for every different system for ideation in any possible culture, even Star Wars.
The possible downside to this deliberate effort is that the object of visualization be-co-me-s (be with me) as they will, and acts unconditionally from their own volition. It's the sa-me with building a visualization about Jesus. He be constantly yapping about being with me. Same with Moses and the Ten Commandments. "Thou shalt have no other God before Me." How many me's do you gnow? One?