I am curious to hear how many memory palaces everyone has and what kind of different places you use!
Anyone here have a memory city or a memory Forest?
I am curious to hear how many memory palaces everyone has and what kind of different places you use!
Anyone here have a memory city or a memory Forest?
I think you might need to define what you mean by that…
Sure thing. I guess I assumed that more people would be familiar with those terms.
Essentially, a memory city is a mental map of multiple memory palaces arranged and categorized in a specific way.
A memory Forest is a little more outlandish and bizarre of a concept but I’ve heard of a few people who use it. it’s basically the same thing as a memory city except instead of palaces, you use “memory trees” - where each tree represents a concept or idea, each branch on the tree represents a sub point of that concept, and each leaf on that branch is a detail about that sub point. This idea allows a person to store hundreds, even thousands of pieces of information on a single tree, and many trees can be grouped together in what’s called a “memory Forest”. Hope that makes sense ![]()
As for the number of palaces, there is an older topic discussing that too
maybe you can find what you are looking for there?
As for the memory city, I made a topic when I started mine:
The memory forest concept sounds like a sort of visualized mind map. I dont use those myself though ![]()
Awesome, thank you for the resources!
I don’t have much experience using the memory Forest either but it’s an interesting concept nonetheless. I first heard about it from Dr. Lev Goldentouch, and he claims that he is able to store 1,000,000 pieces of information in his memory Forest. Sounds ambitious!
I have 9. However 3 are dedicated to specific topics and aren’t re-used. 6 are general use. Most are under 20 loci.
I wonder if it’s a peg system. If you use a 2-digit PAO system as a peg list, it gives you 1,000,000 pegs (00-00-00 to 99-99-99).