Can This Strange Mushroom Really Double Your Brain Power?

Imagine remembering every minute of your life since adolescence—from what you ate for breakfast on a random Tuesday decades ago to the exact words exchanged during a heated argument on a December morning in 1995. 

For a very select group of people, this is their reality. Jill Price was the first person modern science identified as having a condition called hyperthymesia, also known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM). Jill Price remembers every moment and every detail of every day of her life since the age of 14, and she's not alone. To date, 62 living individuals have been identified with this extraordinary ability.

Over the years, I've discussed incredible powers of the brain, from Savant syndrome to hyperthymesia. But what if there was a way to hack the brain to induce supernatural powers of cognition and memory without having been born with a super rare, one-in-a-million condition?