Most of us forget what we ate for breakfast yesterday, but a teenager known only as TL can relive her life like rewinding a movie reel.

She’s one of fewer than 100 people worldwide believed to have hyperthymesia, or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), a condition that allows her to recall an astonishing number of personal experiences with vivid detail, according to a new case study published in Neurocase.

Lead author Valentina La Corte, a neuropsychologist at Paris Cité University, explained in the study that people with hyperthymesia “are able to describe in detail what they did on July 6, 2002, and experience again the emotions and sensations of that day.”

TL, now 17, can revisit her memories as if she were physically there, often from multiple perspectives. She describes

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