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!