Do memory palaces
really exist? Can
ordinary people master it?
How to accurately remember 15 kinds of chaotic items and quantities in one minute?
Recommend a magical method- “memory palace technology”.
It really exists and is easy to master.
This is a very practical psychological skill that will bring you closer to “genius.”.
We’ve all seen amazing things about people with extraordinary memory skills. For example, they can memorize a lot of meaningless content in a short period of time, retell it backwards or forward, and they can remember it for a long time. They can retell it weeks, months, even years later, and they can remember it exactly.
It is precisely because these performances are so amazing that we feel that ordinary people like ourselves are far away from these memory geniuses and can never have such superb and amazing skills.
However, in fact, after training, ordinary people can also have the memory ability close to genius.
Magical Picture Thinking In fact, there is a secret behind all magical memory techniques. As long as you master this secret, you can have the memory ability that you dared not think before.
This secret is “pictorial thinking”, which means that when memorizing a series of information, the information of numbers, language, words and other ways of thinking are all transformed into images to memorize. The reason why the masters of memory around
us can become masters is that they can imagine the content of memory into colorful images.
“Picture thinking” is more often seen in autistic geniuses, such as in the movie Rain Man, when a whole box of matches falls in front of Rain Man, he can accurately report the number of matches with only one or two eyes.
There are also autistic geniuses like the “human flesh camera” who can draw the huge layout and tiny details of the whole city only by memory.
Here, let’s take a look at the “picture thinking” of this autistic genius, which uses “memory palace technology.”. After
reading the following content, not only can you have a good memory, but you can also help people around you become “memory masters.”.
Next, let’s explore the “memory palace,” which is a list of 15 items that are actually not next to each other and are difficult to remember. The 15 items are: Garlic and Chili Sauce Strawberry Yogurt Char Smoked preserved meat 6 bottles of beer socks (3 pairs) 3 Hula hoops snorkels soymilk machine email Xiao Dai flesh-colored stockings find a Peking Opera “Three Righteousness in Taoyuan” recliner loudspeaker rope barometer now we activate the memory palace technology to see how to remember these 15 items smoothly.
First of all, we must understand that human spatial learning ability is very powerful.
For example, if you are left alone in someone’s house for five minutes one day, you have never been to his house before.
At this time, you must be in high spirits and full of curiosity about the house.
Imagine how much information you can remember about this house in this short 5 minutes?
You can not only remember the location of different rooms, which one is next to which one, but also remember the size and decoration of these rooms, as well as the furnishings inside, the location of the windows in the rooms. Before you know it, you can remember the placement of hundreds of objects and the size of all of them.
You don’t even realize you’re looking at these objects.
If you put all the information that goes into your brain together, you can write a short story.
However, people never regard this kind of spatial memory as their own memory achievement, and human beings just absorb a lot of these spatial information unconsciously.
In this way, the first and crucial step in our memory palace technology is to choose a “palace” that we are most familiar with.
I suggest that you take the house you have lived in from childhood to adulthood, or the house you have lived in for the longest time, as your first memory palace, because you must be familiar with it.
After that, we will arrange the 15 items on the list one by one around a route of the house.
When you recall these contents, you just need to walk the route again in your imagination, and the things you need to remember will automatically jump out of your head. Here
we assume that the memory palace is like this, it is a building with an elevator.
Let’s start with the lobby on the first floor of this building.
Now, close your eyes and imagine as much as you can: a bottle of garlic chili sauce standing proudly in the middle of the hall on the first floor.
(The first item to remember is garlic chilli sauce.). The more details
you can relate to, the better. It’s important that
you use your multiple senses to remember the scene.
When memorizing a piece of information, the more things you associate with it, the more firmly it can be woven into the stored information network, and the less likely you are to forget it.
So you have to think as much as you can about the taste of garlic chilli sauce, and then exaggerate the taste a little bit. Imagine that you are eating garlic chilli sauce, and your tongue has to really feel the taste.
It’s garlic. It’s spicy.
By this time, you already have a multi-sensory picture of garlic chili sauce in your brain.
Now we go ahead and enter the elevator, and then we start to imagine putting the second item on the list in the elevator.
This item is strawberry flavored yogurt.
Now you close your eyes and imagine a bathtub filled with strawberry flavored yogurt.. Here I would like to mention a saying that often appears in Guo Degang’s crosstalk. It is called “the beauty of a thought.” Everyone’s aesthetic is different. When you close your eyes, the most beautiful, beautiful, and handsome person you can think of is called the beauty of a thought.
Now if you imagine a person who is naked and bathing in a bathtub full of strawberry yogurt, I will imagine Daniel Wu, and the yogurt is dripping slowly from his body.. It’s not just for fun, it’s for a reason.
When building a memory palace, it should be as interesting, vulgar and strange as possible.
Because most of the things in daily life are trivial and ordinary, nothing special, it is very difficult to remember.
And the brain is easily stimulated by new and unexpected things.
If we see or hear something particularly vulgar, or something strange, strange, unusual, or hilarious, it is easy to remember it firmly and not forget it for a long time.
This is because, after evolution, humans are most interested in and remember the two things best, that is, jokes and sexual behavior, especially jokes related to sexual behavior.
If you want to remember something quickly, associate the most beautiful woman, or man, in the world with something you want to remember. Beauty often has an amazing ability to evoke memories.
From this point of view, in fact, the World Memory Competition is not about memory, but about imagination.
Now concentrate. The elevator has reached your floor.
We got out of the elevator and walked into your house. Imagine that you have to turn left into a room. This is your living room. There is a piano and a sofa in the living room. The
third thing to put is charcoal smoked preserved meat.
Next we imagine that there is a lot of burning charcoal under the strings of the piano, and there is a pig’s leg on the strings.
Wow. Do you smell the fragrance?
This is to use your piano strings as a barbecue grill, to put this charcoal smoked preserved meat, try to taste it, it tastes really good. The next item on the
list is 6 beers.
Then put it on the sofa.
Now, personify these six beers.
Because people are more likely to remember a living image than inanimate image.
As you can imagine, these six beers are getting together to discuss their pros and cons.
For example, Snow Beer said to Tsingtao Beer, “Your taste is not good, not as soft as mine.”.
“Tsingtao Beer retorted,” You are not as pure as I am.
Harbin Beer chimed in: I’m more mellow and refreshing.
Snowflake and Tsingtao Beer turned their heads together and said to it, “You go and cool off!” So why are these six anthropomorphic bottles of arrogance easier to remember than “six bottles of beer”?
First of all, it takes more energy to imagine such a strange scenario than to simply read the words “six bottles of beer”.
In the process of consuming this energy, neurons in the brain form more stable connections, and these neurons can decode memories. For
a more important reason, consider the following question: Of all the lunches you’ve had in the last week, how many can you remember? Do you remember what we had for lunch
today?
I think you remember.
But what did you have for lunch yesterday?
You have to think about it to remember it.
And then, what about lunch the day before yesterday? What about lunch
a week ago? What about lunch
a month ago? Surely
you can’t remember! It’s not that the memory of last week’s lunch has disappeared from your brain, but that your brain has mixed it up with all the other lunches.
If you are given the right hint, say, where to eat, or who to eat with, you will surely remember.
When we try to recall something hidden in a certain memory category, a large number of memories begin to compete with each other in order to win our attention.
Your memories of Wednesday’s lunch are not gone, but you are not using the right “bait” to “fish” the lunch out of a sea of lunch memories.
Once a bottle of wine can talk, it becomes so strange in the sea of your memory that there are no more competitors.
It won.
Moving on, we’re going to memorize three pairs of socks.
We can hang them on the lamps in your house.
Now, there are two ways to make these three pairs of socks attract our attention.
One way is to make them stink. Another
way is to use “magic realism.”. Which one
do you choose?
I suggest you choose the second one, because the charcoal smoking preserved meat has made your house full of smell.
Let’s start with “magic realism.” Now imagine that these three pairs of socks are hanging next to that lamp, but they don’t stop for a moment.
For in every sock there was a ghost, and these ghosts stretched the sock very long at one moment, and tore the sock very hard inside the next.
Your brain has to really show this scene.
Finally, try to feel that the socks with ghosts suddenly fly up and hit you in the face.
The soft cotton touch rubs against your forehead.. Go on, what’s next?
Three hula hoops, a snorkel, and a soymilk machine. Here’s how it works
: You come to one bedroom and see three aunts spinning hula hoops that get stuck because they’re so fat, and in another bedroom, your dad is wearing a snorkel with his head in a fish tank. In the
kitchen, a soybean milk machine was whirring and shouting tired.
Next, it’s time to send Xiao Dai an email.
Send an email. What kind of scene should we imagine?
This is a little difficult.
Sending an email is hard to remember. The more abstract the word is, the more difficult it is to remember. We need to make it concrete to some extent.
I suggest you think of it as a ladyboy sending an email.
Can you imagine it?
Then connect this shemale with Xiao Dai. What is the first thing you think of when you
hear the word “Xiao Dai”? It
starts with a capital D, so we’re going to choose Dita Von Teese, whose initials are also D, and she’s a famous stripper, which is kind of a shemale connection.
Let’s go ahead and imagine that the next item is flesh-colored stockings, and put them on Dita Vantis, the stripper, who is wearing a pair of flesh-colored stockings.
The next step is to find a Peking Opera “Three Righteousness in Taoyuan”.
We put this “Peking Opera” in an alcove in our home, where there happened to be a Kuan Kung.
When Kuan Kung worships Kuan Kung, it means “I even worship myself when I start to be ruthless.”.
Next thing you need to remember: a recliner, a megaphone, a rope barometer. Then we went to the balcony, where there was a recliner, and your mother was lying on it, talking to you with a megaphone, and the sound was deafening and ringing in the sky.
You couldn’t stand it any more, so you took a rope and climbed down the stairs.
When you land, you take out a barometer to measure how much pressure there is in this oppressive atmosphere! At this point, all the contents that need to be memorized are placed.
Now, you can look for these memories along the route of this memory palace you’ve built.
When you walk past the place where the memory is placed, the memory will jump out.
You can try it. Close your eyes again and imagine yourself standing in the lobby on the first floor. There was a big bottle of garlic chili sauce here before, and now it’s there. Walking on
, I got into the elevator and saw Daniel Wu sitting in a bathtub full of strawberry yogurt, picking up a sponge to wipe his body.. The elevator is here. You’re in the house. Walking to the left after
entering the door, I smelled a smell of smoked preserved meat.
On top of the piano strings sits a leg of charred pork.
You also hear those arrogant beers talking on the sofa and feel the 3 pairs of socks hanging next to the lamp flying towards you and hitting your forehead.. Is it all remembered?
！ However, some people worry about how long the memory will last this time?
A week from now, will you remember what’s on this list?
In fact, a week later, these revelry novelty scenes will still have a strong impact on your brain.
These images, which leave deep memories, will stay in your brain far longer than you expect! Go through this route in your memory palace tonight and tomorrow afternoon, and if possible, a week later, so that the contents of this list can really be engraved in your mind for a long time. After
practicing these 15 items, we can try to memorize 150 items, or even 1500 items, to challenge the larger memory palace! In this way, you will gradually have a superhuman memory! . Focus on not getting lost ~
