The memory palace technique consists of think in an image as a place, and mnemonic images as ideas to be put in that first image as a place. Consider your house, every bit of the image of your house, can be a place for you to store mnemonic images (ideas, symbols, concepts made into a mental representation).
So, that way even a mnemonic image itself could be another place, for another mnemonic image. Consider this simple exercise: imagine a dog, a very specific one. Then imagine a random person/caricature in a praying kneeling position with hands together. Now, i want you to place the person praying over the dogs head (make the dog a giant dog or the person a miniature doll). Now, play more with praying person, consider it being grateful: meaning “I thank whatever gods may be”
That’s how I’d do it. But I’d make algorithms of what to memorize always about each event and consider the preparation of mental places where to put them. Although the second part could be avoided, and simply create a mnemonic scene with mnemonic images of the ideas/events to be memorized, then I’d peg them with a digit sequence of the date mnemonic.
082920 → this would be today’s digit sequence of the date. Create a picture for this number. In turn, this image could be the memory palace. And your recall algorithm could be reduced to: what day you want to remember, you think about the date number, in that order or whatever you prefer, then you look the image and the images of the information associated to the image of the date. Assuming that you would use the linking system or storymethod. The steps for memorization, then:
- Image of the date MMDDYY.
- Image of the idea to be memorize, the order matters if more than one.
- Associate image 1 with image 2.
- Repeat association of image create in 3 with whatever number of relevant images of ideas. (Just like the linking system).
Make the images for the ideas, the simplest and the images for the dates could derivate a number peg list.
Example:
As I don’t know what kind of data you want to memorize, these are relevant for me, if ever I want to do this:
- Iris came to visit me, she came in her car.
- Iris had black jeans, white shirt, small earings, great makeup: purple lipstick and proper shadows.
- Iris facial expressions upon looking at me for the first time where: x, y and z. Her tone, her proxemics.
So I hugged her, so I could put my hand on hers and noticed her heart rate (if possible, this is not part of the memorization).
- A. Iris first talk to me about her trip to my house. B. She found herself with a hectic traffic, a crazy seemingly drunk person, and a police persecution in the highway. You could either memorize the topic A or the details of the topic B.
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Create mental snapshots, when you’re partaking of this scenes of the “event”. I literally mean, take a look at people, and imagine a part of them. For what you hear in a phrase: the first noun, the action of the phrase, then be more specific under your discretion. It may sound difficult, when you start taking a grip of it… I just wonder what you’d then do with all that information orderly memorized. Remember to review: a lot. Reviewing in your head can be done quickly, should be. With time the images could become into shadows, you don’t need to restore them to their original state when you memorized them, but don’t compromise the data, unless it is something that does not need verbatim (I’m talking from expirience in this part, so you may differ).
Alternatively, you could use memory palaces based on people bodies, architectural buildings (your house, an entire imaginary world of places…). Also, consider memorizing just one to three really significant things of everyday events.
Once I told my wife to put five objects in the different places in our apartment(five object in five rooms) and review those places with the objects in her imagination!