Back in 2017 I made my first Millennium PAO system. I was young. I was ambitious. I ended up changing it a lot before I got a system I would be using. That system is now here: an 8 digit PAO. 3 digit person, 2 digit action and 3 digit object.
The full system has a few more objects which can allow me to extend it to a 11-digit system should the need arize, but I decided to only share the main system with you so far I can always add a page for the extended bit later on if you dear people really want me to.
Feel free to use it for inspiration, and feel free to ask questions!
Part of it is organized, like you mentioned in your example. Especially for the persons I try to have an association with the number for most. For Hanuman I always see the image on the clouds with the sun behind him, so the association with the sun made him 0. Brahma has three heads, and thus an association with 3.
But to learn it, I have another method. Lets take number 679, the Grim Reaper and a Lysosome, as an example. A little background, the lysosome is reprisented as a close up textbook-view of a lipid bilayer with a membrame, thus all the little spheres outside and the tails inside. Their job is to “eat” the cell’s waste.
Now, the number 679 is split into two parts, 67 and 79. Back in my old PAO, 67 would be Han Solo pilotting the Millennium Falcon and 79 would be a Rancor getting crushed by a gate. Important are the action “Pilotting” (67) and the object Gate (79)
I see the Grim Reaper (679-P) Pilotting (67), goggles and headset included, a heavy metal Gate (79), like the ones you see in medival castles. He crashes into a Lysosome (679-O) in an attempt to break it open, but the Lysosome ends up eating him.
The actions are the same as my original PAO, so those I already know. So in the end I have my Person, doing an Action with a 2-digit-Object to a 3-digit-Object. If I want to know 679, I just have to ask myself “Who was pilotting the gate, and what did he do?”
I am not competing, I am just gathering knowledge. The system allows me to easily memorize numbers up to 8 digits , but also in two different digit numbers through a splitting action, which tells me that P and O represent different things.
With some effort, I can also work with 11-digit images, but I will not often find numbers that range that high.
My actions are 2-digits coming up with 3-digit persons and objects was a pain already, so I don’t think I could easily come up with actions.
If I would attempt to, I would work with categories and specifics again. For example, I would turn hitting and punching into distinguishable moves through specifics. Hitting is just a casual hit, but punching is going all professional boxing-style, lots more force than hitting. Pounding is like a gorrilla, slamming sends someone flying or something breaking. Similarly, hopping is playful, jumping is serious, leaping is going all the way to the moon.
I am a writer for fun, and in writing it is very important to work with those specifics. The character doesn’t hit very hard, he slams his fist into his opponents face. He doesn’t jump very high, he leaps towards the sky. That is why I would go that route.
The linked system has indeed been in the back of my mind while creating it, as well as for the method to memorize te images. Besides that I just went and gave the system a lot of thought and experimentation to see what worked for me.
I may borrow this approach. I currently use 2 digit pao and suspect this may work better for me than 3 digit.
My current best for numbers being 34.43, and I need 13 images and a grab. With this I need 10, and no grab.
I Began memorizing the Millennium PAO from “memory-sports” but the site went off line. Did anyone copied it? I Tried E-mailing memory-sports and Florian’s other web site “Thinkniht” but there is no response.
I’m a little frustrated because I was already getting comfortable with the list and all of a sudden it’s gone.
Thank you for the response, It’s a good idea, but from what I see there are only fragments of the website, there are only a few of the images in very small size. I wouldn’t mind waiting a while for each image, but they don’t seem to be included in the archive snapshots.
some other parts of the website are, which is nice.
Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.
For the picture that I made I just used photoshop I don’t have this for every number though, most are only in my mind.
As for getting a millennium list, I would advice to first find what system works for you. The Major system works for a lot of people, some use Dominic, I used categories. When you know what works for you, it is a matter of putting in the time.
For me dominic , major didn’t work and not ben system either. (so I chose different where I am good.)
It will take a little time to find but after that worth it.
goodluck on your number journey.
Thank’s a lot for the response. I was experimenting with the millennium pao list on “memory-sports .com” and liked it very much. Now the site went offline, I have the list text file but I want to combine it with pictures and use as little imagination as possible.
I can always add a page for the extended bit later on if you dear people really want me to.
