Some secrets of figurative memory (1989)

The head of the eidetic memory center I. Matyugin conducts classes with a group of Moscow schoolchildren on the development of figurative memory, talks about his work. I. Matyugin asks the children during a hypnosis session to remember events that happened to them in the past.

Matyugin gives the children sheets of paper with pictures pasted on them.

The children tell what associations these pictures evoke. I. Matyugin talks about his previous work.

A girl memorizes numbers chosen arbitrarily for her.

The girl repeats the entire series of numbers offered for memorization without errors.

She explains her principle of memorizing numbers.

An experiment is conducted with memorizing hieroglyphs.

A young man is shown a card with a hieroglyph and what it means is named.

A participant in the experiment explains how he memorizes hieroglyphs.

Schoolchildren observe the experiment.

A girl named Nika does several things at once.

She writes different numbers with different fingers, retells a text she read some time ago, and reads a new text.

Nika explains how she manages to do such a task. I. Matyugin tells the story.

Matyugin checks Nika's blood sugar level.

The girl lowers her own sugar.

The girl's mother tells how a girl with diabetes learned to lower her own blood sugar.

The girl explains how she does it.

The participants of Matyugin's group, with their eyes closed, see with their inner vision how the group leader raises his hand and tell him about it.

Then the participants of the experiment tell what injuries there are on the body of their group leader.

The participants of the experiment tell how they see it.

Group leader Matyugin shows his students a new experiment.

A group participant repeats the experiment demonstrated by Matyugin.

A girl explains her feelings during an experiment. I. Matyugin explains his experiments. I. Matyugin teaches a new girl to enter a state of numbness in her body.

The girls explain their feelings.

A girl explains how she relieves pain.

Another girl tells how she relieves headaches.

A girl tells how she relieved her mother's headaches and how she recovers from this.