Super Memory

My oldest son has this super memory, and it's not even memorized on purpose. It's like he just memorizes things word for word from the 1st time and even only time he hears something or reads something.

I used to find it very interesting when he would bring home these speech homework sheets and he was supposed to read the story and then tell me back the story in his own words. He couldn't do it--that is, he couldn't summarize. He would have only read these little stories once, and then not even glancing at the paper, he would word for word recite line by line the 2,3,4 paragraph little stories. It just blew my mind.

I remember him (well, and still now) reading these super science fiction or fantasy novels with hundreds of pages and then having someone ask him about what he's reading with me waving my hands NO NO behind him. Why? Because he will tell you in detail chapter after chapter and chapter and it might take an hour of your time when all you were looking for was an "it's about dragons" answer.

I write this post, because just yesterday as we were sitting at the dinner table going around asking about what we learned at church, as we do on Sundays, he once again astonished me.

He had read some scriptures and he was quoting me word for word this super long scripture. I asked him if that's what he did in class--memorize the verses, but he said no, they just read through it once!

How can he do that? It's almost as if his brain is like some kind of a computer database that can just recall exactly any information that it is given. It's amazing. It really is.