Memory improves when you imagine yourself
As they were presented with each personality trait, the participants were instructed to employ one of five strategies: think of a word that rhymes with the trait (baseline), think of a definition for the trait (semantic elaboration), think about how the trait describes them (semantic self-referential processing), think of a time when they acted out the trait (episodic self-referential processing), or imagine acting out the trait (self-imagining). For all participants—both healthy and memory-impaired—self-imagination boosted free recall of the personality traits more than any of the other strategies did.
This sounds like it might have application to memory techniques. 
Fulltext:
Imagining a Better Memory: Self-Imagination in Memory-Impaired Patients by Matthew D. Grilli, Elizabeth L. Glisky
Seen via memory-key.com.