A WOMAN with a rare condition claims she can remember 95 per cent of everything that's ever happened to her - including 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 intricate detail. It's extraordinarily rare and Rebecca is just one of 62 people in the world who have been diagnosed with the condition.
Research shows that for the average person, the earliest memory they can retrieve will be from when they were about two and a half years old. As for Rebecca, her earliest dated memory is from when she was just 12 days old - but she claims she can also remember being a foetus in her mum's 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.
She says she was originally misdiagnosed with obsessive compulsive d.