A woman with a rare condition says she can remember everything that has ever happened to her - even being in the womb. Rebecca Sharrock, 34, lives with highly superior autobiographical memory (H-SAM) - a neurological condition which leaves people able to remember most of their life in huge detail. It's extraordinarily rare and Rebecca is just one of 62 people in the world who has it.
Her earliest dated memory is from when she was just 12 days old - but she claims she can also recall being a foetus in the womb. Despite needing therapy for the condition, Rebecca says she "puts it to good use" and has been able to become fluent in two languages over the last 10 weeks alone. Rebecca, an author and public speaker, from Brisbane, Australia , said: "My mind is just unable to let go of rubbish from the past.
My earliest memory is possibly from when I was a foetus in the womb. The interesting thing is I don't have to have any personal significance attached to a memory. "They don't need to mean much for some reason.
At the moment, I'd say I can remember 95 per cent of everything that's happened to me in my life." Rebecca wasn't diagnosed with H-SAM until she was 21 years old, on January 23, 2011. Rebecca on her 1st birthday ( Image: Rebecca Sharrock/SWNS) She says she was originally misdiagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) at the age of 16 because she'd "obsessively" relive past experiences.
Her childhood memories - like having toys taken away from her at school - would ca.
