Curriculum core
The syllabus follows the actual document, then turns it into practice.
By Joseph Kropf. Edits by Faith Cheltenham/X. Updated September 5, 2022.
Source document pulled from the shared Google Drive folder "_Hyperthymesia_Syllabus_2022 by Faith Cheltenham, X."
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Memory consolidation
Section 01
How Accessing Normally Unconscious Memory Storehouses Of The Brain May Occur
Explores how shared brain functions, attention, emotion, planning, recognition, and background processing may combine to make autobiographical memory more lucid and accessible.
Deliverable: Open a thread about one mechanism that seems to match your lived recall and test it against your own memory patterns.
Section 02
Other Types Of Attention Activating Autobiographical Memory
Looks at how repeated activation, environmental cues, recognition, comparison, metaphor, and synthesis can wake up memory traces that usually stay in the background.
Deliverable: Write one thread about a comparison, pattern, or metaphor that unlocked a memory you did not expect to surface.
Section 03
Ways HSAMers Can Channel Attention
Frames HSAM not just as recall, but as something that can be directed through habits of attention, conceptual thinking, and choices about what kind of information the mind treats as important.
Deliverable: Create a thread about one attention habit you want to strengthen or redirect in your own recall practice.
Section 04
Memory Activation Points of Reference: Tapestry of Life vs Abstract
Distinguishes between memory rooted in direct lived scenes and memory activated through abstract structures like patterns, meanings, categories, timelines, systems, and concepts.
Deliverable: Start one tapestry-of-life thread and one abstract-pattern thread, then compare what each style reveals.
