The memory was so vague I went to the Van Nuys Building department to verify the office was at 17200 Ventura Blvd #121, Encino, CA 91316 and that the parking and entrance was on Louise not Ventura Blvd. My Dog Found Where I Worked in 1972, Part 2.
[6] Hunter and My Hippocampus: The Real "House Hunters"
[7] Being able to vividly retain an image in your mind after only brief exposure to it is incredibly rare. However, there are other types of phenomena that exist that are similar to photographic memory that boast an incredible ability to recall information. The most referenced type of extraordinary memory is "eidetic memory" or the ability to vividly recall images after only seeing them momentarily, according to Cognitive, Conative and Behavioral Neurology. Children are more likely to exhibit characteristics of this memory syndrome than adults. As per the research, there is no way to tell if your child has a photographic memory, but can you discern if your child has another memory syndrome?
[8] Kai: The First Dog to Graduate from the College of Telepathy
[9] Quora: How do guide dogs know the destination if they've never been there before?
Penina Winisdatter, Owned dogs for 30 years.
Answered Apr 23, 2018
The best analogy I can think of is this: Airline pilot and airline navigator.
I decide when to travel, where I intend to go, how I intend to get there. I am half of the crew. My navigator finds the best way through the route I have chosen. From house to bus stop, from bus stop onto bus, then I, as pilot, listen for my street (having alerted the driver to call it) Off bus, and across the street, down the block to my destination, a store, an office, et cetera. While we travel, my navigator, the dog, sees a branch across the sidewalk. She cannot figure out exactly how to handle this, as it completely blocks the path. She relies on me. She shows me the branch, I determine that we will have to step out into the street. "Juno RIGHT." We get to the downcurb. She shows me the edge. Carefully, I listen for cars. None coming? "Juno, LEFT." we edge around the fallen branch. "Juno LEFT." but I haven't noticed a parked car. Juno knows I want to get back to the curb" she takes us around the parked car and when she can, turns left and back to the upcurb. She halts. I find it with a foot. "Good girl, Juno! Atta girl! " I step up "Juno FORWARD"RIGHT" Juno, find the door. Find the door!" and she takes me unerringly to the doorway that was beyond the fallen branch. In each case (curb, branch, curb, car, curb, door) she found the obstacle, and the safest way, and alerted me and waited for my decision. Teamwork.
for my part, I need to know the route and the end point. Two blocks to the bus stop means one block, a downcurb, street, upcurb, and the second block. Then, right or left? I have to have memorized, or recorded my intended path. IF it is a route my dog has taken before, she will know or will remember. Once, when I still had my beautiful Golden retriever Guide, I was very ill, and it was raining. I was COMPLETELY turned around, lost and in great pain from a back injury. I could NOT find my way back home" my dog, however, knew something was very wrong. Patiently, she brought me to my doorstep, even though I was crying, distraught, and scolding her for "getting us lost-- it wasn't HER fault!! I was being a four-star 24 karat solid gold b*tch and my poor little dog was incredibly patient with her suffering and nasty "human"! Needless to say, we were both rain soaked and miserable, but when we got indoors, she got a good rubdown with a heated towel, and about a hundred apologies before I got out of my OWN wet clothes! Somehow, our dogs KNOW when it's time to stop being the navigator, and take the emergency co-pilot seat!
A sightless person needs to have some sense of where they are going. A sightless person, wishing to get to a certain destination, needs to first be guided by a sighted person. The dog is being trained at that point so eventually the sighted person will no longer be needed.
I knew an unsighted attorney who, being guided by a sighted person, left his home and between walking and taking public transportation got to the courthouse everyday. The dog always went along. Eventually the sighted person was no longer necessary and the dog guided his master from his home to the courthouse.
Although a dog can be very helpful an unsighted person is usually limited to certain routes the dog has been trained to follow. While you and I can follow signs to help us find strange destinations, the unsighted person with only his dog is limited in the number of destinations he can visit.
Usually during training with their new owner they practice going places the owner needs to go. Being blind doesnt make the owner stupid. Blind people have to be very routine. They go tge same places taking the same routes every time. They dont often go to unfamiliar places without a sighted human companion. And Guide Dogs do more than just guide. They are there to keep the blind owner out of danger as well. To keep them from walking in front of a car or out of the path of bicyclists or from walking into water and that sort of thing.
Guide dogs don't guide the owners to destinations (although I'm sure they get to know familiar routes inside and out).
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