How do I create an Imaginary memory palace?

[JJ123]

I want to know how I can create Imaginary memory palace. Just to be clear, I’m talking about creating memory palaces out of nothing. So creating a fantasy location in your head and making a memory palace out of it. Now I understand that making a memory palace with real life location is more ideal so spare me from comments telling me that I should just use real life locations. I want to know specifically how to create an Imaginary memory palace.
So can anyone tell me how i can create these kinds of memory palaces? any tips and tricks? any advice?
Thanks so much

[Abrahamsaynes]

Try using the street where you live, and watch how are the houses by the outside, and try imagining how are they by the inside.
Just think in simple things, like a living room, a kitchen, a bath, a video games salon.
And practice memorizing on it, like cards, numbers or images.

[InMyMemoryWorld (Boris)]

Kind of what facinates me more about the art of memory.

• Every detail you imagine matters. You don’t need useless details, but not everything has to be a locus (spot for holding images).
• Start from the inside if you’re want a building structure: house, mansion, etc.
• Be consistent with yourself, don’t reinvent. If you visualize a chair in an spot, don’t update to see another later, this will create ghost images, then you’d think about different images at a single spot.
• For the loci, anything can be a memory holder. Imagine a soap bar, each egde can be used, the center with the company name, and the bottom side. Imagine a creature from myths or fantasy and use its body as a memory palace, every detail that you care to use can be used as an locus. So, within an structured palace you can have an seemingly infinite amount of sub-palaces.

Steps for a basic structural palace:

1. Select a reference. Either from your memory or a picture:

Tip on the reference: not empty, not overwhelming.

2. You can either draw a blueprint or simply imitate multiple references. In this step, start making your structure. For instance, if you try to reproduce any of the pictures from step 1, you’re just creating a “real palace” rather than an imaginary palace, I consider imaginary palaces those that are made by your creative mind. So, as a basic rule of creativity, take bits from your memories and from the references, and create your target palace, either following a blueprint or in flow of creativity.
3. Now, finally select your candidate loci.

I use paracosms or imaginary worlds as a meta-place where I visualize my imaginary palaces. So, I don’t forget them.

Example:

I created a place, I wasn’t counting the loci, didn’t use references neither blueprints. I just freely visualized a door and its sorrounding walls, different from my advice, I visualized the outer view of the house (though it is smaller than the inside), when back to the door, then made an office, with a a desk and three sits, a tree, a lamp and some ghost background. I created another door leading to a living room, here there was fire place and sofa’s around it, from that point, to th right a table for decorations and over the table a painting which has a woman looking at the distance at a man, the woman holds a cat (they are in romantic (historical) clothes) At the front there is a small table with a chess board on and two sits, over two more paintings one with a flower, and the other is a ghost (not detailed). To the left there is a bookshelf partially ghost (I use the whole as a locus). This room has four doors at opposite walls two by two. That’s just an example. I used this one to memorized 00-09 images for my first PA (I remember, though I use another). I use this place for random numbers memorization training and random letters memorization as well.

Conclusion:

Everything can be a memory palace. Anything you imagine. You need to avoid confusion, yet you don’t need to have everything detailed like real life 3D visuals. You will visualize from different perspectives, and remember the associations anyway. Some problems are present with imaginary places that don’t appear with real life places. Then, is it really worth the effort? YES. My reasons are speculative but I find these places less confusing, with higher recall, faster locus to mnemonic image association, multiple perspectives are more forgiving allowing you to memorized many things within the same spots without any interferance. Though maybe all the “benefits” could actually be personal or even the same could be with real places.

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[McBrian16 (Brian Nicholson)]

I’ve recently had success using the story method to create a fictional mind palace. I started writing and let the palace kind of build itself from my imagination as I wrote. For example, you could start with something like, “I fall off the zipline (locus 1) and into the foam pit (locus 2). The pit is surrounded by a cushy, blue border (locus 3).” The key here is to imagine the sensation of being on that locus point (or acting on it in someway) as you write I realized that since we tend to remember stories far better than random data points that I could use a story to create and remember mind palace points. I have tried this with 20 random words and remembered them all, and I’ve since expanded to 45 new loci. The cool thing about a fictional mind palace is you can use things that don’t exist in your real home: mine has a slide, a rocket ship, a cannon, and teleportation pads. Have fun with it!

Also, another helpful tip is to incorporate familiar chronologies into your palace. For example, you could have a set of items that are gold, silver, and bronze, and now you’ve expanded your loci from 1 to three. You could use the rainbow since you likely already know ROYGBIV, and now you’ve expanded 1 loci to 7. Hope this helps!

[Josh (Josh Cohen)]

@InMyMemoryWorld

Nice artwork. Some of those remind me of Baldur’s Gate – a D&D computer game from about 20 years ago. I haven’t created memory journeys in Baldur’s Gate, but I’ve been thinking about taking some screenshots and doing it.

Related page: virtual memory palaces.

[NicolaF (Nicola Fattorini)]

Hi. Use the sims with some cheats to have infinite money. Build a house as big as you want. Live inside it with a sim and there you are. You have a new palace. Do as many buildings as you need. If you use the sims 4 it s gonna be super customizable so it s even easier to create unique loci

[Dargonesti]

I just made 2 videos for future reference for a memory palace.
I used 2 maps in the game Overwatch and explored it using a free moving camera.

For me, that game is the best one to use as a memory palace;
You need to know the maps in detail while you play, otherwise the enemy will sneak up on you.

Map exploration OW, Hanamura - For Memory Palace

Map exploration for use in a Memory Palace - Overwatch, King's Row