I used to have difficulty with recalling faces. I couldn’t recall even my parents’ faces. I eventually realized that I could recall photographs of people though. So I spent time on a couple of exercises:
I would practice recalling the photographs and then trying to shift my mind from the photographs to some other kinds of visual impression of them.
I used to look at strangers' faces for a moment when I walked down the street. As soon as I passed, I would close my eyes and try to hold that visual impression in my mind as I kept walking. Eventually, I got better at it, and I can now recall people's faces..
Have you experimented with anything like that for faces? It might be worth trying.
That’s interesting. I might be the opposite in that aspect of thinking – my thoughts are usually running like an uncontrollable firehose, and I have to occupy my mind with complicated tasks or it gets to be overwhelming.
Very interesting. I also have some background in arts, but I still had problems with visualizing faces. I still have some problems with face blindness – not so bad that I can’t recognize my family, but bad enough that it has damaged relationships when I didn’t recognize people who I was supposed to know.
