TFC and TF2 maps

I only remember one because it was a shot gun layout. Kitchen-living room-mom’s bedroom-my bedroom all in a straight line. Super inconvenient because I had to go past her room every time. The other places I lived were bigger, so I don’t remember them exactly.

I have exceptionally good memory for this kind of thing so yes. I can probably remember the layout of every building i’ve ever fully explored or 80% explored.

I remember some of the schools I’ve been to… like the general vibe of it, idk if I could actually draw a map… more of a notebook doodle maybe

I think you’ll surprise yourself. You piece things together at the time, E.G “I can’t go there because it’s staff only; therefore that entire area must contain the teachers’ lounge, where they make the food, and the headteachers’ office.” By process of elimination you could probably figure out what each room was used for in your old school even without having gone to all the rooms.

Easy, most of the places I’ve lived in are one bedroom apartments.

My entire memory operates spatially. I have accurate floor plans of every place I’ve been to at least more than once. I can navigate any number of places. Even still have the layout and significant memories of my old middle school. (Interestingly enough, when I went back there, the whole building felt about 30% smaller in every dimension—hallways narrower and shorter, ceilings lower. Turns out, this is because I’m 30% larger than I was when I was twelve.)

I have only lived in 3 places. I can definitely remember the second place, the longest one. I vaguely remember the first house I lived in until I was 5. Not sure how close my memory is to reality tho. The second house I could just load up a Doom .wad I still have from when I made my house in the game if I ever forgot or felt nostalgia for.

I’m 53 now, and could easily draw a map of the 2 houses that I lived in as a kid between 5 and 18 years old, along with most of the 10 or so houses I’ve lived in as an adult (a couple were very short term as a young adult, and I’m kind of vague on the exact layouts).

Before 3 years old I don’t remember much, a couple of vague things that could just be from pictures of me in those houses, rather than real memories. I kind of remember some of the house from 4 - 5 years old.

Every home I’ve lived in, every school I’ve attended, and every office I’ve worked in.

What’s weird is when I have a dream that takes place in one of these, they almost always wrong. When I can remember the dream I can also remember exactly how the space was different from my memories. Of course my waking memories are the correct ones, right? Right? Oh no.

I’ve lived in 21 apartments/houses, and I remember them all except from four where I didn’t live for very long.

Side note: I’ve worked offshore rotation for years, and a ship becomes your home away from home. I remember them all.

By the way, recall that humans were traditionally hunter-gatherers, for hundreds of thousands of years. This required them to be intimately familiar with a large chunk of land around their home and know all the plants and animals that were there. Rural dwellers still show similar knowledge of the land.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel ‘Shaman’ kinda touches on this just a bit, showing what life might’ve been like for a prehistoric human. The author is known for meticulously researching the subject matter of his books: for example, he’s said that he spent time figuring out which words likely originated in prehistoric time, and that it felt weird to have his characters basically say “mamma mia”, as those are some of the oldest words.

(Although a recent thread on Reddit on a related topic assumes throughout that humans were nomadic before agriculture. This clashes with my previous belief, but I don’t know enough about this to figure out which view is correct.)

Hmm, I only have a rough idea about my elementary school, come to think of it. I remember the field outside much better. Later schools are easy, though. Houses are all there, and relative’s houses. Certain stores and a church or two, as well.

I remember a radius around every place I’ve lived outside, but could only draw it geometrically where there’s been grid layouts. Otherwise it would be kinda abstract, like they did it in Rome:

Central Europe and Africa pictured, lol.

Not just houses and apartments, including those where I was a guest. I also walked quite a lot across two cities — as hiking exercise, I walked over most of a city with several million population (over a few years). I can remember most of those streets.

Moreover, I have a couple places that only exist in my dreams and daydreams, but are the same every time they pop in my head. They vaguely correspond to real places, but aren’t copies of them.

This all is not to brag, as my memory otherwise is rather questionable, and I have little use for spatial memory, not being a taxi driver or whatever.

All of them? No. I can remember some details of a lot of them, and some of them very well, but there’s others – especially from when I was very young – that I no longer have a good full mental map of.

I definitely do not remember the layout of all my schools. I moved a lot and some of these are just disconnected fragments of areas to me now. I have no idea how my classroom and the cafeteria were connected in the school I was at in 3rd grade, for example, and I’m struggling to even remember how I got home from school then – even though I do remember taking the bus to school at that age, and I remember some of the places I had to wait to catch the bus home when I was even younger than that… It’s strange what sticks in memory and what doesn’t, sometimes.

I remember every place where I’ve lived in for more than one week. Including their surrounding areas. I like go back there in my mind from time to time, for many of them don’t exist any more.

Yes. Interesting observation that we remember that.