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Time traveling is scientifically proven now! 

17-year-old can mentally time travel to her past and future.

Scientists have documented a remarkable case of a 17-year-old known as "TL," one of fewer than 100 people worldwide believed to have highly superior autobiographical memory, or hyperthymesia.

People with this rare condition can recall extraordinary details from their own lives, often remembering exactly what they did on a specific date years or even decades earlier.

But TL's memory is even more unusual.

She says recalling a memory doesn't feel like simply remembering it. Instead, she mentally travels back into the event, re-experiencing the sights, sounds, emotions, and even viewing moments from different perspectives, almost as if she is there again.

Researchers also found she can mentally project herself into the future with remarkable detail, imagining future personal events using many of the same brain processes involved in remembering the past.

Perhaps the most fascinating part of the study is how her mind organizes those memories.

TL describes a giant white room inside her mind that functions like a vast library. Every meaningful memory is carefully stored there in chronological order. Family photographs, childhood toys, favorite books, and major life events each have their own place, allowing her to revisit them almost instantly.

Negative memories are stored separately inside a chest, while different emotional states have their own mental rooms. She imagines an "ice room" when she wants to calm down, a quiet room for solving problems, and even a room filled with soldiers connected to difficult memories of her father leaving for military service.

Interestingly, facts without emotional meaning are much harder for her to remember. She calls these "black memories" because they lack the vivid imagery that accompanies her personal experiences.

Researchers believe studying rare cases like TL's could help reveal how the brain stores, organizes, retrieves, and even discards memories — offering new insights into memory disorders, aging, and what shapes our sense of identity.

For most of us, memories gradually fade.

For TL, they remain almost permanently within reach.

Read the study:

"Autobiographical hypermnesia as a particular form of mental time travel." Neurocase, 2024.

https://parisbraininstitute.org/news/mental-time-travel-new-case-autobiographical-hypermnesia