A tip for using The Method of Loci

[oelvk]

Read through this post, and I have a few points of clarification about this linking method.

@LociInTheSky

Instead of thinking of the palace as a thing you can walk through while observing/visualizing wild happenings, what if the loci in the “palace” were nothing more than an orderly list of “first objects.” What if it didn’t matter if the loci could be walked through in a linear fashion? What if the only benefit of their existing along a path was that it made it easier to remember which loci followed another?

This idea reminded me of Gavino’s memory palace system, Gavino’s Massive Memory Palace System - General Memory Chat - Art of Memory Forum, which I found quite interesting.

I like this idea of linking images in a kind of “nether space” as I think it removes the limitations that a physics memory palace often imposes upon images that could be more memorable – incongruous images.

My point of confusion, in the second to last paragraph LociInTheSky explains that you don’t need to have to use the traditional method of loci, but I don’t understand what other alternative there is.
How else would you remember the “next object” if it is
a) not linked with the last object of the first loci:

@LociInTheSky

linking the last object of one loci to the first object of the next has become unnecessary.

b) not necessarily in close proximity to one another?

@LociInTheSky

Make sure that the question of why the loci will remind you of the first object is answered by something other than “because I visualized them near each other.”

In my mind, there must be something connecting the last loci to the next one, but maybe I am not understanding the whole point of this method. Can someone clarify?