Memory Palaces

Learning Temple

     The Learning Temple (LT for short) is a self-generating and artificially-made memory palace in which a person can store information for classes or courses and ace exams. It resembles a roman coliseum. Every bench/step is a room filled with columns and persons. There’s an allegorical statue in front of the row of benches/steps that symbolizes the name of the course. Every semester has a specific number of allegorical statues (5 courses = 5 allegorical statues). Every room has a different color and theme to make them homey and can be filled using the Roman Room Method mixed with Benavente’s memory palace.

     For memorizing I do the following:

1. I find my class/course.
2. In my door I place a person.
3. That person makes 20 loci.
4. I go to my nearest right-hand wall, place a person around a column and fill the loci.
5. I repeat step #4 two more times (that makes three persons around the column).
6. Then, I go to my nearest right-hand corner, place three persons around a column and fill all the loci (20 + 20 + 20 = 60 loci).
7. I go to my right-hand wall, place three persons around a column and fill the loci.
8. I go to my right-hand corner (two 'o clock), place three persons around a column and fill the loci.
9. Keep filling the columns with people until you fill all the walls and corners.
10. Place four persons around the center column and fill the loci.
11. Place four persons around the center ceiling column (same as the center column, but on the ceiling) and fill the loci.

Artificial Memory Palace

     The Artificial Memory Palace (AMP for short) is a memory palace that is made of videogame maps instead of real world journeys. It’s a good memory palace for storing a lot of data. It gives a wide range of possibilities, especially for people who are gamers. I use maps from RPG games (The Elder Scrolls, The Legend of Zelda, Megaman Battle Network). I use the Roman Room method to generate a lot of loci. So far I’ve over 13,100 loci. Just find a room (or something similar) in your map. The door is a locus, the walls sum up five loci, the corners sum up four loci, the center of the room is a locus and the ceiling is a locus. That makes a total of 12 loci. If in a map you have a 100 rooms that means you have 1,200 loci. Basically you can generate a lot of loci with few rooms!

Other Number Systems and Encoding

Color System

     “Big Boys Race Our Young Girls, But Violet Generally Wins”.

     Black [1], brown [2], red [3], orange [4], yellow [5], green [6], blue [7], violet [8], grey [9], invisible (or white) [0].

     The Color System can be used with a person or an object. For example, 116 can be “black [1] Arnold Shwarzenneger [16]”.

Binary Number System

     Memorizing binary numbers is the easiest of all memory feats. I encode the binary digits so they resemble decimal digits.

     I use this conversion list:

001= 1
011= 2
111= 3
100= 4
110= 5
010= 6
101= 7

     Then, I can memorize the binary digits in a PAOT System fashion. E.g., the binary number 100101110001001110001111 can be grouped as 100 101 110 001 001 110 001 111. The binary number is converted into a decimal number. In this case it converts to 47-51-15-13, which can be memorized as “Dorian Grey [47] playing (in videogame fashion) [51] a theory (it looks like a book-made TV) [15] with hipster glasses (as a videogame controller) [13]”.

Encoding Ten Decimal Numbers in a Loci

     I encode ten decimal numbers or thirty binary numbers in this fashion:

     [color + P] + [A] + [O] + [color + T] = 10 decimal digits/locus (30 binary digits/locus)

      E.g.: 8794503256; 879-45-03-256; violet Qui-Gon Jinn [8 + 79] molesting [45] a power star [03] with a brown scissorhands [2 + 56].

System for Number Encoding

Decimal Number System PAOT

     The PAOT System [person, action, object and tool] is a variation of the Dominic PA System [person and action]. The PAOT system was developed by Octaveslur. This are my images for numbers between 00-99. In most cases I use the Dominic System and sometimes I attribute an image to a number for what it means to me. So the images are not necessarily linked by a phonetic code.

     Memorizing goes in this fashion: the number 45896327 is separated as 45-89-63-27. The number is memorized as “Dee-Dee [45] picking (like eating with a beak) [89] a hound [63] with a keyboard (the beak is a keyboard) [27]”.

     This is my list of images:

01- Matt Damon/kicking/pole/karate suit
02- Samuel Jackson/screaming/bitch/megaphone
03- Kim Jong Il/watching/power star/telescope
04- Joker/driving/car/pork chop
05- Belushi/putting/glove/blues suit
06- Aykroyd/firing/bullets/gun
07- Bayly/dicing/dice/stick
08- Coelho/spinning/skate/tutu
09- Dostoyesky/jumping/cat/pogo stick
10- Megan Fox/siting/bowling ball/pine
11- Nietzche/drumming/drum/drumstick
12- M.Jackson/rubbing/dozen-eggs/trapo
13- Hipster-tiger/roaring/witch/hipster-glasses
14- Thor/striking/ring/lightning
15- Einstein/writing/theory/pen
16- Shwarzenneger/lifting/weights/shorts
17- Hawking/reading/magazine/vox-machine
18- Talos/beheading/priest/warhammer
19- The Thing/breaking/bench/suit
20- Dragon Tattoo/smokes/cigar/cigarette-holder
21- Barbie/nailing/nails/nails
22- Bilbo/dancing/fire/dragon-mail
23- Clinton/sucking/dick/mouth
24- Big Daddy/pissing/enchanter/cone
25- Uncle Ben/punching/throne/glove
26- Bart/skating/rails/skateboard
27- Gates/hacking/computer/keyboard
28- Bounty Hunter/flying/jetpack/mask
29- Bono/singing/arab/Nokia
30- Cops/beating/nigers/cop-sticks
31- Captain America/throwing/shield/C.A. logo
32- Batman/riding/unicorn/batman logo
33- Charlie Chaplin/balancing/tricycle/Hitler ‘stache
34- Darwin/whispering/plant/recorder
35- Clint Eastwood/knotting/knots/knots
36- C.S. Lewis/splitting/Dawn Trader/force-field
37- Guevara/stomping/hat/das-boot
38- Cho/hiding/treasure-chest/Digory
39- Chuck Norris/combing/beard/comb
40- Dominic/shuffling/cards/card shuffler
41- Daenerys/breast-feeding/dragon/breast
42- Goku/Kamehameha-waving/dragonballs/Kamehameha
43- Ramona/dyeing/hair/blue-dye
44- Donald/quacking/book shelve/duck-mouth
45- Dee-Dee/molesting/dragon-priest/wrench
46- Ds/slides/ds/water-slide
47- Dorian Grey/hammering/Dorian Grey/hammer
48- Hasselhoff/meeting/Hasselhoff/handshake
49- Barney/shoveling/dinosaur/shovel
50- Red Hot Chili Peppers/eating/peppers/peppers
51- Harry Potter/playing/videogames/controller
52- Mermaid Man/swimming/Barnacle Boy/fins
53- Eric Clapton/tuning/piano/tuner
54- Ellen Degeneres/flashing/fish/flashlight
55- Bear Grills/drinking/piss/snake
56- Edward Scissorhands/scissoring/scissors/scissorhands
57- Egg/dancing/keg/leg
58- Hubble/binocularing/stars/binoculars
59- Backstreet Boys/folding/cementery/grave
60- Superman/absorbing/sun/sm suit
61- Saruman/adivinating/palantir/sauron
62- Alias/sheating/sword/hands
63- Hound/attacks/ hound/longsword
64- Darth Sidius/sparking/lightsaber/crystals
65- Jackie Chan/stunting/rags/rags
66- Spongebob/catching/jellyfish/net
67- Angus Young/rocking/SG guitar/pick of destiny
68- Hussein/logging/logs/axe
69- Sonic/running/flag/jump
70- Orwell/turning-off/TV/controller(TV)
71- Inspector gadget/gadgetting/gadgets/gadgets
72- George W. Bush/bombing/bombs/bombs
73- Spiderman/webbing/Mara/webs
74- Yoda/forcing/force/force (field)
75- Gecko/teaching/caveman/chalkboard
76- Emma Stone/lip-sticking/lips/lipstick
77- Gandalf the Grey/magic/butterfly/cane
78- Gohan/genkidamaing/planet/genkidama
79- Qui-gon Jinn/Mind-tricking/dealer/mind-trick
80- Santa Claus/gifting/gifts/gifts
81- Hammer Man/bouncing/golfball/golfclub
82- Sacha Grey/handjobing/cadaver/vibrator
83- Hulk/smashing/house/hulksmash
84- Six-string samurai/samuraing/guard/samurai sword
85- Jimmi Hendrix/burning/guitar (Fender)/voodoo child
86- Han Solo/blasting/storm trooper/raygun
87- Hermione/leviosa-ing/feather/wand
88- Hulk Hoggan/mustaches/bike/mustache
89- Hen/picking (with beak)/beggar/beak
90- Dr. No/scars/Dr. Evil/scar tool
91- Neil Armstrong/moonwalking/spacesuit/spaceboots
92- Master Chief/pwning/Cortana/rifle (Halo)
93- Nick Vujicic/flips/phone/foot
94- Napoleon Dynamite/drawing/drawing/pencil
95- Mandela/meditating/Mandela/aura
96- Obama/walking (limping)/cane/sugarcane
97- Morgan Freeman/resuscitating/zombies/white suit
98- Malcolm X/praying/muhammed/Qu’ran
99- Monesvol/trashing/spaguetti/noodly appendage
00- Raptor Jesus/creates/universe/god