I still remember... an apartment I lived in till the age of 8... like I could draw a map of the interior...

I still kinda remember some of the places of my relatives that I've been to frequently, although those memories are a little bit more blurry.

I remember some of the schools I've been to... like the general vibe of it, idk if I could actually draw a map... more of a notebook doodle maybe

I used to draw maps of my neighborhood when I was in brooklyn... yeah so... I wasn't allowed much computer time and didn't have a phone... and my brain kinda turned my attention to the surroundings and I just get so bored and draw a map of the neighborhood lol.

I've lived in 21 apartments/houses, and I remember them all except from four where I didn't live for very long.

Side note: I've worked offshore rotation for years, and a ship becomes your home away from home. I remember them all.

I have only lived in 3 places. I can definitely remember the second place, the longest one. I vaguely remember the first house I lived in until I was 5. Not sure how close my memory is to reality tho. The second house I could just load up a Doom .wad I still have from when I made my house in the game if I ever forgot or felt nostalgia for.

I only remember one because it was a shot gun layout. Kitchen-living room-mom's bedroom-my bedroom all in a straight line. Super inconvenient because I had to go past her room every time. The other places I lived were bigger, so I don't remember them exactly.

Easy, most of the places I've lived in are one bedroom apartments.

I'm 53 now, and could easily draw a map of the 2 houses that I lived in as a kid between 5 and 18 years old, along with most of the 10 or so houses I've lived in as an adult (a couple were very short term as a young adult, and I'm kind of vague on the exact layouts).

Before 3 years old I don't remember much, a couple of vague things that could just be from pictures of me in those houses, rather than real memories. I kind of remember some of the house from 4 - 5 years old.

My entire memory operates spatially. I have accurate floor plans of every place I’ve been to at least more than once. I can navigate any number of places. Even still have the layout and significant memories of my old middle school. (Interestingly enough, when I went back there, the whole building felt about 30% smaller in every dimension—hallways narrower and shorter, ceilings lower. Turns out, this is because I’m 30% larger than I was when I was twelve.)

Hear that guys? Smaller is better. If you have a bigger one, she won't remember it....

Hmm, I only have a rough idea about my elementary school, come to think of it. I remember the field outside much better. Later schools are easy, though. Houses are all there, and relative's houses. Certain stores and a church or two, as well.

I remember a radius around every place I've lived outside, but could only draw it geometrically where there's been grid layouts. Otherwise it would be kinda abstract, like they did it in Rome:

Central Europe and Africa pictured, lol.

Every home I've lived in, every school I've attended, and every office I've worked in.

What's weird is when I have a dream that takes place in one of these, they almost always wrong. When I can remember the dream I can also remember exactly how the space was different from my memories. Of course my waking memories are the correct ones, right? Right? Oh no.

when I went back there

So you got kids now and went to a Parent-Teacher conference?

Damn I'm kinda nostalgic for a school I used to go to...

I mean I kinda wanna go back to the neighborhood where I used to live in and then raise kids there... and then have a moment where I'm like: "Hey kiddo, when your dad first arrived in this country, that was the school I used to go to"... like nostalgia + being able to relate to your kids...

Cuz my parents went to school in China and they had no idea what my experiences were... like I doubt they can relate to me, cuz I can hardly relate to them...

(I remember 1st 2nd grade before I came to the US, they had meter sticks they used to hit kids with and the teacher would throw chalk at kids that looked like they weren't paying attention...)

All of them? No. I can remember some details of a lot of them, and some of them very well, but there's others -- especially from when I was very young -- that I no longer have a good full mental map of.

I definitely do not remember the layout of all my schools. I moved a lot and some of these are just disconnected fragments of areas to me now. I have no idea how my classroom and the cafeteria were connected in the school I was at in 3rd grade, for example, and I'm struggling to even remember how I got home from school then -- even though I do remember taking the bus to school at that age, and I remember some of the places I had to wait to catch the bus home when I was even younger than that... It's strange what sticks in memory and what doesn't, sometimes.

Of course my waking memories are the correct ones, right? Right? Oh no.

I can imagine you being Loid Forger (from Spy x Family) and sneaking into the school and gathering intel lol

No, I don’t have kids. A friend of mine cleans there and asked me if I wanted to see the place after a couple decades away. Dead of summer. No one around, just wandered for a few minutes. Lonely, but nothing moved an inch.

I’m trans, asexual, and taking this virginity to my grave. My bloodline stops with me.

Any place I've frequented I guess

Yes. Interesting observation that we remember that.

Lol I thought I had a great memory for remembering my apartment at 8 years old, then I see all these comments and I'm like... oh, so I'm not that special after all

I have recurring dreams of a school I never went to. The floor plan is always the same.

Vaguely, for most of the places I've lived, but the memories aren't super clear, but I'm also probably between a 2 and a 3 on the aphantasia levels. So it not being super clear but a general idea of layout makes sense.

Places like work are a lot less distinct, as are shared living spaces where I spent more time in my space and didn't go into other people's rooms. I worked in television for a long time, and I remember how the studios and control rooms for filming were generally laid out, I don't remember the organization for the rest of the building that I barely went into. I remember basically nothing at all about the first station I worked at, because they switched buildings and moved into a new space about a year after I started working there. I have a vague memory of the control room and studio, but it's a lot less clear than the others, which are also vague.

I remember the layout of the park and pool that I worked at clearly, but that was one of my favorite jobs ever, so it tracks that I'd have a lot of memories of it. Also I worked alone so I had to cover the whole area instead of having areas that I wouldn't go into.

I remember vaguely street layouts from places I've lived, but I usually have to go look at a map for a clearer picture in my mind how everything in the area was connected.

I have very clear memories of my grandparents house in Michigan. I only visited three times, but I explored that house top to bottom when I was around nine years old. I also remember where it was in town, and how to walk to the main street from the house. It's a very small town, to this day, fewer than 800 people.

The thing is, when I look at Google maps, nothing looks quite right. I'm not sure I've found the right house, the house that looks right isn't in the right spot, etc. Main Street looks right, and the drug store is still there, but the rest is wrong. It's been 50 years, and you might think, 'well, of course, everything has changed', but it's a very small town, and all the houses and yards look old, there's practically nothing new in town. No spot where the house might have been, but is now something newer. It looks like a town stuck in the 1940s.

Anyway, I prefer my memories.

Even as a relative youngster I remember visiting previous schools for some reason or another and being astounded by just how tiny the chairs and desks were.

I went back to my high school as a substitute teacher, but they had remodeled it and aside from a few familiar hallways, it was completely different.

Which is even more confusing than never being there at all, because I THOUGHT I knew where I needed to go, only to find they had moved that room to another area.

I'm like this too

I have the spicy brain. I remember everywhere I've ever driven to and that's a lot of places. Across Canada several times. Lived in 5 different provinces and traveled extensively throughout. I map everything in my head. I am terrible with cardinal directions though.

I have only lived in 5 places in my life and some of them were for only a few months at a time but I still remember every room of them

I call myself a homing pigeon because I have some wicked intuition with spatial knowledge.

So that being said, yes. I could definitely map out everywhere I've lived or visited for an okay amount of time. I could also probably give a pretty decent map of the surrounding areas of each.

Not really. Maybe vaguely. But not as well as I wish I did.

Sure, one good one is bike paths, if you’ve used them enough, you get a good general layout of the neighbourhood.

Same, I could map everywhere I have visited more than once (real life or virtually), not just where I have lived!

The place I used to live doesn't have google street view lol. I had to use Baidu Maps and their version of the street view thingy.

The most recent street image I found is from 2014... my family left in 2010... don't recall it being different... although it does feel weird that I don't recognize some parts of the alleyways (not really a street, cars don't usually come through, you have to walk like 10 minutes, according to Baidu Maps, to the main street)...

And the Baidu car thing didnt even go all the way in to the alleyway so I can't see the front of my building.

Just the vibe I remembered... dilapidated af and dirty... not just my imagination, the street views confirms it... (probably why they stopped updating the street view... it makes the government look bad)

I lived next to a mountain... and there are no street view up there (cuz obviously a car aint gonna drive up there... but they could still technically use a bike to capture streetview images)

I kinda have nostalgia for that place... (sort of not really)

I remember that mountain used to seem so mysterious to me...

I remember feeling afraid to touch some things, fearing it might be poisonous...

Not sure if I feel brave enough to visit... hope they don't find out about all the anti-regime views I hold lol

I think I could do fairly well with any place I'd frequently been in, and with enough autonomy to get disoriented and reoriented. Some of the houses I've lived in are not much more architecturally elaborate than a shotgun shack, but I could also do my elementary school, most of a middle school, two college dormitories, and most of a university library.

We lived in a shoebox in the middle of the road.

I'm like this too. I can go back to a city I've been to once, years ago, and I know the way around. I remember the layout and location of my childhood friends houses, even when I don't remember their names.

I'm terrible at remembering exact quotes from books, TV, etc, but I have pins in my mental map for where the scenes took place, even in fictional worlds.

If you promise her a night she'll never forget, the worst sex she's ever had technically fulfills that promise!

I made a Quake map of the restaurant I worked at for a college assignment! No clue where that file ended up though. Probably on a zip disk somewhere.

And I can effortlessly visualize and move through places I’ve been to enough to learn the layouts as well. I’ve stood in the spot, where, back in high school, I turned down a girl who asked me out. I stood there, on a quiet and cold night, on the grass with no one around, and apologized to her, twenty-three years too late. Apparently being turned down was enough to put herself in a tailspin that even at the twenty-year reunion, she hasn’t pulled herself out of. Maybe I’m not to blame? But I still stood in that spot and said sorry.

It’s easy to remember where all the spots are.

Basically anything after 5 I could probably draw you a pretty accurate map

I remember every place I've ever lived. My mind will not forget those things.

I remember basically every house or apartment I’ve lived in, and every office I’ve worked in. Probably quite a few stores and restaurants I’ve frequented, schools I’ve attended. I can recall neighborhood layouts. Basically anything spatial.

Now, can I tell you what someone’s name is two minutes after they’ve told me? Not a chance.

There was an apartment we lived in when I was 6-7 which for some reason has some hazy spots, but besides that yeah pretty much. Friends' houses, schools since 9ish (at least the parts I went to), every workplace, theme parks, basically anywhere I've been a few times.

Yes, I thought back through them and I can totally remember and visualize them. But I've forgotten a lot of the address numbers.

Pretty much, yes. I could probably draw them now, but I make no assumptions that it would be to scale.

I can't draw you a map of routes I've taken, but I can see them in my head.

I remember drawing floorplans for fun as a kid after my dad brought home a book of them from a housing company - that was 30± years ago.

But I can't tell you what I had for breakfast this morning.

everywhere i have ever been...

I lived in the same house for most of my life and before that I was at my grandparents' place

Yep. Couldn't tell you dates, names, or many events, but I have a great mental image of what the places looked like and how they were laid out.

The house I grew up in? Sure. Like the back of my hand. A couple other places maybe. But there was essentially a decade where I moved so many times I couldn't even tell you what the house or apartment I rented looked like much less what the inside looked like if I tried. It’s been 30 years since I lived in my hometown, I wouldn’t get lost ever, but I don’t think I could find all the places I used to know.

Nearly every place. Apparently we lived in a place for a few months when I was first born.

Freaked out part of my family when I drew a map of the first house I remember. I think they finally figured out that children do remember things... And a lot of the shit I was put through I might remember

TFC and TF2 maps

I launched TFC and went into a dead 2fort server not long ago. That was a major blast of nostalgia I can't even begin to describe. Dustbowl, Well, Avanti, Badlands, etc. Good times and I think my first online mp experience.

That and Battlefield on bonus.com back in the day.

Freaked out part of my family when I drew a map of the first house I remember.

My mom brought me to her workplaces at least once... or maybe more times than that... (I don't even remember how many times tbh) and then one day my older brother wanted to fight me so I got scared and I "ran from home" when I was like 6 years old... and at some point, I had the idea of just I want mommy so I took the bus there and I knew which stop to get off, but she wasn't there at work because she already got notified by grandma so she went to file a missing persons report and so I took the bus home... then I got to the mall area near my apartment and saw a bunch of cops...

so when I told my mom about it, my mom was so shocked that I made my way to her workplace...

I doubt the cops even thought of looking that far, they probably just went around the neighborhood.

(literally Home Alone NYC shit, but it was in Guangzhou, China instead)

I just became like my family's navigator basically.

My mom scolded me for running away, but then also praised me for being smart enough to find my way.

I remember them saying that I used to guided them around places because they stuggled to understand maps or whatever... idk... I don't really remember about those from this point in time, just the memory of being told I was good at finding my way.

I also was their navigator throught NYC metro system... idk if my parents actually sucked at finding their way... or maybe they were just trying to make me feel confident in myself.

Same. I pretty much have eidetic spacial memory.