At the end of the day, all mnemonics are the same old relationship between a place and idea. LIA (location, imagination, association) keeps being the only way imaginative artificial memory works. Everything is the method of loci, the method of places. All images are places, all places are images. Even abstract images, as emotions, which you can’t visualize yet you feel them and you can associate to them many ideas or images.
Object palace
This has been discussed previously here: Boris Konrad soap bar place XD
In a nutshell: imagine an object, select loci on the object and gg.
Body method
I talk about it more here: [People Method (Body Memory Palaces)
In essence, the body method consists of using your body or someone else’s body. Consider that a body is something we look a lot, and they are very different, a single small feature makes someone look very unique. Advise: make sure you’re visualizing a different body when intended. For instance by mistake I wanted to use Anne Hathaway for the task but I ended up visualizing a completely imaginary person with no face but with woman’s hair… a dummy. With it I memorized Invictus by Henley. It was just for experimentation.
I consider this one, difficult or requiring lots of precision and focus.
Image Palace
More imaginative.
- Consider your topic and visualize an initial image to encompass everything you plan to memorize. Like a schema image.
- Use that image as memory world or memory palace, don’t select loci, rather freely imagine but making associations, after you create visual-idea association then look at where it is, and that’s it’s loci.
- Once you’re done memorizing, you can use the images as loci for more related information. Don’t use non related, unless you’re doing a thought generation or innovation exercise.