I don't organise my memory at all; it probably explains why I can recall useless pieces of information but forget names and specific words from time to time.

I'd love an explanation of those "mind palaces" and other memory techniques. They sound great but it seems like you need a certain mind for it.

I don't organise my memory at all; it probably explains why I can recall useless pieces of information but forget names and specific words from time to time.

I'd love an explanation of those "mind palaces" and other memory techniques. They sound great but it seems like you need a certain mind for it.

Create a room as a test in your mind
Find a place you're familiar with, and put stuff in it with your mind.

for instance, an apple, and two tomatoes.

Since you have the design in your mind, you will remember the things in it, and because you remember the door, you will remember the rug, and because you remember the rug, you will remember the blue walls, and because you remember the blue walls, you will remember the table, and you put something on that table, so your mind goes there, and now you remember something that you had put there.


This all happens in less than 5 seconds when you're familiar with the place.

I'll do this when I find a good "palace".

Edit: Oh, and I'm able to remember long codes by using the numbers before me to remember the ones infront.
I saw a phone number while sitting down, and decided to memorize it.

317-373-365718

I spent about 2 minutes in the room, but I am to this day able to remember something as useless as that.

Why? Because I associated it with things.
Anrgyvidyagamenerd says something like "three seventy BOUR", which I used to remember 017, then 579 was easy to remember as it rolls of the tongue, and then 365 is the amount of days in a year. 718 is the only one that has no connection, but my mind is able to remember such a short number sequence that's connected to strong memory of something shallow.


I edited some numbers so that I won't give away my location.

Quote from: Royal Light on January 12, 2015, 02:38:03 PM

It seems almost counterproductive, though I find imagining a room and putting stuff in it fun for some reason.

What is counterproductive? Why is whatever counterproductive?

If you create a room, you'll be stuck with it forever.
-guy who created two rooms and put 3 paintings in them.

I'm really forgetful, so for forum discussions that I tend to take part in sometimes I'll make a word document with sources and notes. For my schedule I do everything on my desktop in Google Calendar, which syncs to my phone. I use Any.Do for daily checklist things that I might forget about.

My studying tools are:
-Coffitivity/Light classical or piano/white noise (Simply Noise)
-Pomodoro timers, like Mytomatoes.com (which is my favorite, but is currently down)

Hmm. Let's see. For anything I want to remember, I use an anchor. Said anchor can be a word or a memory. My head works like chains and links and it's random. To give you an example, I'll write how things link together as I think them.

Volley, leads to vollies of missiles. War. War in the east. Guns and weaponry. Shootings. Terroist. Paris. Charlie. Charlie the name of a character from a TV show. Sad. Over.

That's my head. I jump from place to place all the time. One subject can quickly and easily merge into another one. But what I do, is I remember spefic words that lead to that chain of thought.

For example. You tell me the word "Moon."

I think of the moon. And I think of a memory I had, while driving down the grid roads in the evening. While I was driving down the road in the sunset with the moon in the evening sky, I was looking at it.

And suddenly I had an entire story in my head based off looking at the moon.

So whenever I want to remember the story, I remember Moon, grey, blue sky twilight.

Anchors. I use words as anchors to come bck to that lead me down the same train of thought.

People. I'm terrible with people's names. I never remember them. So instead, to remember the person, I use a nickname. That nickname stands out to me in the sea of names and I instantly remember them.

Big Joe. Piss Lady. Cell Phone Guy. You tell me any of those names and I instantly know who the person is. And, even more so, those nicknames help me remember and define people.

Cell Phone Guy.

He drinks lots of coffee. Has too many refills. But he drinks coffee slowly because he's always on his phone. He's computer inept and needs help with connecting to our network.

The only thing I can't pin down is numbers. I can't remember numbers to save my life unless they hold great significance to me or have some experience associated with them.

And for that, I use good old fashioned repeats. Repeat the number over and over until it sticks. Do it enough times and the number can stay in my head for years.

There's still a few phone numbers in my head today 5-7 years after I stopped calling them.

Photographic memory

I wish

it's kind of telling that you have to preface this with "an actual serious thread"

anyway, im rather scatterbrained but i organize important information in text format more often than not. i could fill several textbooks with all the information i have stored from miscellaneous assignments for school.