Welcome to this memory place. I’ve learned a lot here. I have several different memory places, 10 rooms in my house (with 10 locations in each room). One room of the house is the 30’s another room is the 40’s and so forth. The path in any room is always the same (I learned this from someone who posted here): Walk in and the corner to the left is #1, moving clockwise the middle of the wall is #2, then the next corner is #3… Until I reach #8 which is the door I entered through. #9 is the ceiling and #10 is the floor. TaDa! So the 10 rooms of my home are an easy and convenient 100 place location map.
My MAIN memory system, however, consists of buildings along a journey (I want to remember 6 digit numbers). Each building has a person and each person has an item that naturally associates with them. If person #45 has the item that belongs to person #19 then that’s 4519. Easy. I then tag on a third item from the major system and I have an unmistakable image for a 6 digit number that cannot get swapped-around into the wrong number. Each 6 digit can only be ONE easy, logical picture.
For instance, “Ronald Reagan” swatting at a blue bird with a mop can ONLY be 440239. 394402 would be “Mr. Bean” using an ink pen to draw a picture of the sun. Obviously very different pictures for the two related numbers. The first two digits = the person, the middle two digits, are an item related to a person, and the third two-digits are just “major system” items.
Perhaps you gleaned that Ronald Reagan’s item is an inkpen? Mr. Bean using an ink pen as a mop would be 394439. Follow me?
I have a reason to want to remember 6 digit numbers, so that’s the system I came up with.
I’m not sure if any of this matters to you, but I thought I’d throw it out there as a veeeery long way to say hello ;-).
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