For those of us that might might be more interested in a simpler explanation, here 3 steps:
1 - Imagine a route in your house.
-start at the front door,
-go through the hall,
-get into your room,
-now you feel hungry and go to your kitchen
-and finally you sit down in your living room.
remember these locations and predefined landmarks in them)
2 - Take what you want to memorize ("The magician vanished the assistant to the outer space"), subdivide it and associate each element with an image.
- magician-funny magician hat,
- vanished - van,
- assistant - a secretary sitting at the desk,
- outer space - black hole.
3 - Now visualize those images (pegs) in the previous locations (Loci):
- magicians hat in the doors handle (feel free to exaggerate the features!!!)
- van in the hall (make it fit!!! the more extravagant the better)
- secretary sitting at your kitchen table - assistant (feel free to imagine her in a sexy and extravagant costume)
-finally picture the black hole, eating away the contents of your living room (like your tv!! and imagine yourself being sucked in and spaghettifying. Imagining yourself interacting increases recall)
NOW: take the journey and see if you can remember. Take the journey backwards and see if you can recall it backwards, or pic a location (for instance 3 - kitchen - sexy secretary -> assistant)
I hope this helped understand what this method is all about. It's really easy and highly effective (although explaining it is always a mess haha). Now we can associate numbers with pictures (1-knife, 2-duck, 3- mustache,...) and easily memorize a girls/boys phone number even if you are at the beach and don't have anyway of writing it down.
Next time anyone of us takes a test or an exam, there is no reason to not remembering the theory, as for the practice and speed there is no other way (that I personally know of) other than actually practicing....
http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/how-to-improve-your-memory7.htm
1 - Imagine a route in your house.
-start at the front door,
-go through the hall,
-get into your room,
-now you feel hungry and go to your kitchen
-and finally you sit down in your living room.
remember these locations and predefined landmarks in them)
2 - Take what you want to memorize ("The magician vanished the assistant to the outer space"), subdivide it and associate each element with an image.
- magician-funny magician hat,
- vanished - van,
- assistant - a secretary sitting at the desk,
- outer space - black hole.
3 - Now visualize those images (pegs) in the previous locations (Loci):
- magicians hat in the doors handle (feel free to exaggerate the features!!!)
- van in the hall (make it fit!!! the more extravagant the better)
- secretary sitting at your kitchen table - assistant (feel free to imagine her in a sexy and extravagant costume)
-finally picture the black hole, eating away the contents of your living room (like your tv!! and imagine yourself being sucked in and spaghettifying. Imagining yourself interacting increases recall)
NOW: take the journey and see if you can remember. Take the journey backwards and see if you can recall it backwards, or pic a location (for instance 3 - kitchen - sexy secretary -> assistant)
I hope this helped understand what this method is all about. It's really easy and highly effective (although explaining it is always a mess haha). Now we can associate numbers with pictures (1-knife, 2-duck, 3- mustache,...) and easily memorize a girls/boys phone number even if you are at the beach and don't have anyway of writing it down.
Next time anyone of us takes a test or an exam, there is no reason to not remembering the theory, as for the practice and speed there is no other way (that I personally know of) other than actually practicing....
http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/how-to-improve-your-memory7.htm
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