1000 images is very challenging to memorise.
It seems you are using the major system for all 1000 images.
- So the first thing would be to simply read it as a word out loud before you practice visualisation. So when you see 101, read it out loud as Toast.
Here is what I would do if I was to memorise all 1000 of them.
- Choose a single room as a locus for practising all 1000 images one after another.
- Choose a single person, perhaps yourself. And place him/her in the room.
- As you look at each 3 digit, say/speak it in your mind
- As you speak it, imagine the whole image in the middle of the room.
So if it’s 101, you’d say Toast, and see/imagine it in the middle of the room. - Make your person do something with the Toast. Perhaps s/he is eating the toast. By doing so, you are also creating an action for each if you are going to use PA or PAO.
- While your person is eating the toast, notice any sounds that eating the toast creates.
- While your person/or-you is eating the Toast, how does the person feel like while eating it? Enjoying, hating, laughing, crying, angry, happy, sad, hurt?
- After s/he finished eating the toast, bring in the next 3 digits.
- And repeat the process for all your images.
To improve your visualisation/imagination;
- See/imagine the image as large as the person where necessary. So the toast would be as tall as the person him/herself.
- Look at the colour/s of it.
- Look at the shape of it
- Hear the sound of it if any
- Feel the weight of it
- Feel the texture of it
- Feel the taste of it if eatable.
- Close your eyes and try to imagine how much of these details you can see.
- Each time you look at that image, see if you can notice any other details.
- Repeat this process for each image until each image is crystal clear in your mind that you can easily see/imagine it as if it’s real.
- Practice the first 100 first until they are all programmed in your mind even if it takes more than a day or even a week.
- Move onto the next 100 and so on until completed.
Extra tips
- When you make the person do something with the image, in this case we used Toast as an example, think of what usually is done with that image. So if it’s a Toast, think of how a piece of Toast is used in real life. In most cases you’d eat it. If it’s a Chair, you’d normally sit on it, if it’s a glass of milk you’d normally drink it.
- Try to make it abnormal where it is possible to make it even more memorable. Exaggerate it in a way that is Not normal. So for example after you take a bite of that Huge Toast, it may start Bleeding which is not something you’d see in real life, however it is certainly more memorable.
If you take your time to follow these steps above for each image, you’d have a better chance of memorising them for long term. In fact, with spaced repetition, it may up being a second nature to you, and you’ll have them programmed into your mind for life.
Good luck!