A small memory journey: Alice in Wonderland

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Hello, made this small journey some time ago.
It presents a few interesting features:

  • it is a journey, which means every place only appears once; it is a bunch of mini adventures in following locations following the rabbit
  • it has very vivid images: hard to forget the happy tea party with the mad hatter

It could be extended with way more loci. However, it is a good beginner one. Don’t ask me why I put 3 loci at the rabbit’s house and only 1 in the carpenter’s story. I think the loci are pretty impossible to mix up, we have 20 in total.

Loci 1: dreaming in the tree
Loci 1: dreaming in the tree

Loci 2: following the rabbit
loci 2
loci 2

Loci 3: falling down the hole
loci 3

Loci 4: the big room
loci 4

Loci 5: inside a bottle
loci5

Loci 6: running around the fire
loci 6

Loci 7: with Twidle Dee-Dum
loci 7

Loci 8: the carpenter’s story
loci 8

Loci 9: the rabbit’s house garden
loci 9

Loci 10: the rabbit’s house entrance
loci 10

Loci 11: rabbit’s room
loci 11

Loci 12: flowers
loci 12

Loci 13: hookah smoking caterpillar
loci 13

Loci 14: my guide is a cheshire cat
loci 14
loci 14 b

Loci 15: a mad tea party
loci 16

Loci 16: lost and mourning with weird animals
loci 16

Loci 17: a labyrinth
loci 17

Loci 18: painting roses
loci 18

Loci 19: the queen’s croquet
loci 19

Loci 20: the trial
loci 20

Hope it’s helpful, especially for beginners, and for Alice in Wonderland fans like me :slight_smile:

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The website http://disneyscreencaps.com/ has a bunch of Disney movies, it seems like 1 image per 1/2 second, and is pretty useful to make a loci journey, since you can overview quickly rather than screenshooting on your computer.

I have done a journey for kungfu panda that I know. Here we have a problem, some places appear several times in the movie. So I just choose either the first time the place appears, or the most representative scene. For example, in the leopard prison, I use it as a loci the second time, that is with leopard escaping and the ensuing battle.
I don’t put too many loci because there are enough stories that I can remember without going through the hassle of distinguishing properly between 2 identical scenes. Maybe I should change my views later when I start needing way more space.

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Thanks, Keref. This looks like a fun way to build a memory palace. I will give it a try.

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NICE!

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Thank you for sharing!

A friend of mine has done similar things with disney films. I myself did it with The Hobbit, as there are a lot of different places the movie passes through. I ended up with about 50 loci there ^^ movies can be a great source for memory palaces.

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I might try this. I’ve been thinking of how I want to memorize the Yang Style Taiji Long Form which has 103 moves (there are technically more since some are grouped together in the numbering). This would be my first very big test as I need 103 loci. I might try to create a memory palace in Mulan or King Fu Panda for it.

My instructor would be very impressed as I would be able to recite the whole form backwards or tell you immediately what number a move is. I don’t think even he can do that.