It means you mean much more than a name to him. Looks like he was so busy in YOU and finding a point of connection in YOU that your name your body did not matter to him. Also looks like if he were to remember you again he will do it based on how he felt with you and you do not have an alias assigned in his memory.

What is dissociative amnesia? In some rare cases called dissociative fugue, the person may forget most or all of his personal information (name, personal history, friends), and may sometimes even travel to a different location and adopt a completely new identity.

Forgetting people’s names comes down to lack of interest and difficulty. Charan Ranganath, the principal investigator at the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis, told Time that you might not care enough to remember a particular name.

Just be honest. They will appreciate your honesty, because everyone understands it’s difficult to remember names. Just politely and apologetically admit that it slipped your mind or that it’s on the tip of your tongue but you can’t think of it now.

You can remember many names when you use the right memory technique. Remembering people’s names needs a slightly different approach from all the others explained so far in this section. The techniques used, though, are quite simple.

1. Know your motivation.
2. Focus on the person you are talking to.
3. Repeat the name of the person you just met.
4. Don’t have another conversation in your head.
5. Focus on a particular feature of a new person’s face.
6. Link the new name with something you already know.
7. Connect the new name or face with a visual image.

People with a condition called prosopagnosia can’t remember people’s faces.

Super recognisers: the people who never forget a face.

Some people say they never forget a face, a claim now bolstered by psychologists at Harvard University who’ve discovered a group they call “super-recognizers”: those who can easily recognize someone they met in passing, even many years later.

To be a super-recognizer, you have to score more than 70 per cent. Just 11 people scored more than 90 per cent, Dunn said, and not a single test subject has scored 100.

“Super recogniser” is a term coined in 2009 by Harvard and University College London researchers for people with significantly better-than-average face recognition ability. Super recognisers are able to memorise and recall thousands of faces, often having seen them only once.

Prosopagnosia (from Greek prósōpon, meaning “face”, and agnōsía, meaning “non-knowledge”), also called face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one’s own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g..

Face blindness is also called prosopagnosia. Face blindness is also called prosopagnosia. It is a brain disorder that is characterized by the inability to recognize or differentiate between faces of people.

Prosopagnosia is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces. Prosopagnosia is also known as face blindness or facial agnosia. Some degree of prosopagnosia is often present in children with autism and Asperger’s syndrome, and may be the cause of their impaired social development.

Coping strategies for developmental prosopagnosia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation….Recognition aids:

1. Memorise detailed notes on behaviour, appearance, etc.
2. Study photographs.
3. Use social media for repeated exposure.
4. Write names down during meetings.
5. Use name tags.
6. Obtain identifying information before an encounter.

Symptoms. People with primary visual agnosia may have one or several impairments in visual recognition without impairment of intelligence, motivation, and/or attention. Vision is almost always intact and the mind is clear. Some affected individuals do not have the ability to recognize familiar objects.

Agnosia typically is defined as the inability to recognize sensory stimuli. Agnosia presents as a defect of one particular sensory channel, such as visual, auditory, or tactile. Examples include finger agnosia, visual agnosia, somatoagnosia, simultanagnosia, and tactile agnosia.

Primary visual agnosia is a rare neurological disorder that occurs as a result of damage to the brain.

Definition. Agnosia is a rare disorder characterized by an inability to recognize and identify objects or persons.