When I was out shopping this morning, I was approached by a young lady who asked me for directions to the library. She was carrying a teddy bear. I assumed she was a foreign student, as there are lots here in the summer. I gave her directions. A few minutes later, another young lady approached me, told me that as part of A level Psychology exams, (the first young lady was her school friend) she was doing a survey on what people would be able to identify if asked. The only thing I could tell her that I noticed was the teddy bear! Are we all so unobservant?
But that teddy carrying is a good trick because it makes you fasten on that one unusual thing....I bet if she hadn't been carrying the teddy you would have remembered more about her.
I tend to notice lots of detail and have an almost photographic memory. I can visualise images from my memory sometimes years later as well. I`d make a good spy :-)