The Memory Palace : Can You Do It?
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2017
- A Memory Palace is an imaginary location in your mind where you can store mental images to remember facts, strings of numbers, shopping lists or all kinds of things. It's hugely popular among memory champions.
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The memory palace is a technique to remember facts, numbers or other things, like a shopping list. It has been around since ancient times and is also known as the Method of Loci. Memory Champion Marwin Wallonius used it to remember, in just 30 minutes, the correct order of 5040 binary digits or a complete deck of 52 cards in just 33 seconds. Here is how it works.
Close your eyes and imagine some sort of familiar physical space, like your house, school or office, and then add a mental image of the thing you want to remember. To remember a bunch of things you can use different rooms and visualize how you would walk through that space following the same specific route. As you walk through, place the things you want to remember at specific locations. Ideally, imagining things in a funny or crazy way also helps to remember. Once we have placed all the items that we want to remember our memory palace is complete.
The day we return to our palace and want to remember what's inside it, we have to go back in. We have to concentrate and imagine opening the door and walking our route. Once we pass by the specific location that we used to place our things, the item will pop back into our mind Let's try to remember 7 ingredients to make some pancakes.
You open the door and see a full cup of flour next to some shoes. Strange.
You walk into the bedroom. Inside your bed, sleeps a teaspoonful of baking powder.
In the living room sits a massive egg watching TV.
And on top of the TV is a cup of milk, almost full.
You go to into the kitchen and see 6 teaspoons dancing around a bottle of vegetable oil.
Enough. You leave the house and enter the garden. But it's full of sugar canes and in the middle, a teaspoon dressed like a gardener. What going on?
You turn around to check the bathroom. The only thing left is half a teaspoon and salt.
Now try yourself! Close your eyes and think of a familiar place such as your home. We will now slowly list 7 numbers. As you walk through your space, place each one in a different location. Lets go: 3, 14, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6
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ok i remember first two..... guess i had burglar in my palace and he took the rest of those numbers
😂😂
Hahahaha
Oh dear. Have you managed to improve your security?
Tip: you don’t have to picture walking through the palace as that can sometimes be difficult, instead try focusing more on the image of whichever item in the palace you’ve chosen. Then incorporate what you are trying to remember to that particular image.
Thanks! I am using this method to learn a foreign language. It works, but (for me) it can take 5-10 minutes to construct an effective image for a word or phrase. Another problem I am struggling with is how to keep everything in a single building. For example, to memorize the word for "Nurse" I added a hospital to my memory palace. To memorize "Airplane" I added an airport! My memory palace map is starting to look like Sim City!
great!
Why dont u imagine a city and place everything in different parts of a city.
Make it like toys
Try making a story connecting each word. So won't need an airport or a hospital.
you can use more than one place
should have called it a MIND Palace with a drawing of sherlock as the thumbnail. this video would go through the roof then!
Anon Banken maybe😊😊
wish we had known... another life ;)
how can i use this if i want learn text not just words?
my teacher was talking about photographic memory a few days ago. I went and tried this technique and told her I had photographic memory and now she thinks i do lol
because,in fact you really do...you are using your visual memory to memrize these tings
TicTac Clock is Ticking do you know de way tru da mind palace ma’hn
Only cameras have photographic memory.
xilo301 lmao
pepehands when you realise you've got aphantasia
This is acc insane! I remembered the numbers in the vid with my mind palace this morning and thought nothing of it. I did some work and other random stuff and I’m about to sleep then I’m like hey, why don’t I try enter my palace to see if I still remember the sequence. I got all of them correct and I feel like Sherlock hahaha
Congrats
Goddamit Watson don't go revealing the secrets!
bloody hell not goddamnit....where are your manners?
Well, I'm clever.
3, 14, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6- omg this was so cool! I was just... oh my god! Number three was hanging up next to my paintings, numbers 1 and 4 were cuddling n my futon, number 1 was sitting on my tv, number 5 was lying holding my cat, number 9 was doing its makeup, number 2 was trying to punch a whole in the wall, and number six was reading a book. This was amazing!
I am honestly stunned with how well this works! Can't wait to try it out more long term!
Hi I only comment when I'm drunk or high. Glad you found it useful!
dont get too stunned or the palace will collapse
@@sprouts hum what
Was that his username ?
Lmao
I completely succeeded in memorising those things thanks for such good videos.
This is incredible. I have tried to learn how to do 'Palace of the mind before' (Loci) but have never managed to do it, but after watching this video I could remember all of the numbers even when revisiting the palace a few minutes later. I'm going to try it for my GCSE English quotes!! Thank you!!
guys, you are awesome.so educative. one of many reasons why I think UA-cam should exist. please come with more videos...I wish u huge success...
thank you! we will try! glad you like them!
Instructions not clear, my pancakes came out salty!
Go to your palace kitchen and tell the cooker his job is in danger!
Brilliant
"nothing beats learning by doing"
well said 👏
Everyone talking about Sherlock Holmes for this, yet CBS's "The Mentalist" explored this concept back in 08'. I don't know if I feel old or blessed for knowing about this for about 11 years now.
Same here. Jane was always talking about his memory palace
I watched the mentalist but well I forgot he said that oof
The World Memory Championships started in the early 1990s, and those contestants were using memory palaces primarily. Memory Palaces (also called the Method of Loci) were used by the ancient Greeks, and other civilizations, several thousand years ago to memorize speeches and religious texts, and pretty much anything.
Best show ever.
lol that's what led me here
Thanks for the fun and informative video about memory palaces. I have hundreds that I use for different purposes. I've used houses, apartments, and dorms I've lived in, schools, parks, neighborhoods, workplaces, and even movies and TV episodes as memory palaces. I used them to memorize Pi to about 5,600 places, and have used them in the Long-Term Memory events of the USA Memory Championship, which I've competed in 4 times, finishing as high as 3rd place in this year's competition.
Cool stuff. Maybe we can do a second vdo one day together.
That awkward moment at the end when you realize your apartment doesn’t have as many rooms as the given numbers to recall 😣
Woah that was crazy! I didnt think it would work but I have to try with more numbers to see if it really works but the little experiment with the 7 numbers worked great for me!
I imagined mine like my house. 3 was inside a shoe on the shoe rack in the entrance, 14 was sprawled on my sofa, 1 was in place of the fridge, 5 was on the toilet, 9 was a painting in the dining room and 2 and 6 were sat side by side in the study. I remembered all of them in order :D
i open the front door and use 3 fingers to twist the handle. i then see 14 flowers in the plant pot and turn around and put my 1 door key in the door. then i use all 5 fingers to lock the door because the lock is stiff. then i take 9 steps to get to the cut way and at the end of the cutway it takes 2 minuets for the lights to change at the crossing and there are 6 cars stopped at the traffic lights
Lottie Rea that’s a thing bro!😎😎😎 tnx for the tip
Why did you do that? To difference better the things?
So many classic horror/mystery stories use this technique!
Marvin the champion me memorizer must have had a really LARGE house
3
14
1
5
9
2
6
Whoa! It really works!
yeah it's awesome those are the digits of Pi btw! worked for me too
Ikr it was my first try I imagined 3 struggling putting shoes because he got 3 pointy things and then 14 just laying down on the sofa 1 as the antena on tv 5 eating 9 cooking 2 hanging 6 after he was in a washing machine
I can’t really picture things in my head I can just remember it
@@UNKNOWN-bp9ww I memorized 60 digits of pi yesterday by only reading a book that involves this concept. it actually works
Bendaonfire007 lmao I just painted the numbers on the walls in each room, nothing so creative, yet it worked :D
i went with my first thought I used my body as the place a miniature of me was walking around my body and I painted in red paint on (3)left knee , (14)left foot(1) right foot(5) right knee (9)hip (2)right armpit and(6) right hand, this really worked, because you can literally see them on yourself. I couldn't decide on a building type location, and so the body is a palace.
I did this since I was a kid. I didn't know what it's called. Now that I'm a psych major j just found out so many things that I did and not. Psychology is very interesting ☺️😍
I checked my memory palace a day later and I still remembered all of the numbers🙌
Anyone here dreamt to be like Patrick Jane?
He inspired me to learn these things. Although it's a movie, it certainly have impact on those who watched it.
Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed this explanation. It makes me feel like i can actually do this.
Amazing! I remembered them all!
I memorized the first 70 digits of pi just yesterday and came here to see if there was a better system. Glad I came 👍
This video presentation reminds me of The Bible Project videos. I love it!
Thank Goodness that this channel exists
Nice video, as usual. Keep up the good work. Raw numbers are harder to memorize in that way because they are not as easy to visualize as objects.
OMG thank you so much I just want a clear explanation of how to do it and you talked about it very well in animation!!
Glad it helped!
Nice work using first 8 digits of pi for the example.
Yes I can...
3,14,1, 5, 9,2,6.
Thank you for the video 🙏🏼
SHERLOCK HOLMES!!!
@Bruno Jimmy it's what sherlock is using -- his memory palace
I got 5/7!!
I know some people did better but I'm still pretty happy ☺️
I could remember all! this is a great video! thanks a lot!!!
Any tips, exercises, etc. to improve your visualization skills? I feel like this would help me a lot more if I could form pictures in my head better.
OK I’m gonna tell you immediately how this worked with me, we all know where we keep our things right? You imagine what you want to remember as “one of your things“ and you put it somewhere special
Damn this actually works. I used my house...remembered the ingredients and numbers when i tried to write them directly after but went to take a call and came back 5 min later to try again. I recalled all the #s right and all the ingredients save for I put 1 t baking soda, 1/4 t salt and it was baking powder, 1/2 t salt.
It's best to use a place you are extremely familiar with like your home or work. I used objects in rooms that reminded me of the thing to remember ie 3 hooks in entry, 14 books on shelf, 1 bed in my room, 5 jars on vanity, 9 bottles in shower, 2 pieces furniture in another bedroom, 6 pieces furniture all around living room. They may or may not correspond w/ actual items but I found it helps to be in the vicinity (I do have 3 hooks but I have more than 14 books however it was a large # so I was able to associate it quickly). Pretty cool technique as I wouldn't have been able to remember all the ingredients and numbers otherwise. I could still recite them now! Amazing!
So simple yet so effective amazing
I've tried it on lasagne recipe and now i can visually remeber all the ingridients perfectly even the next day
I got all the numbers in order except the 9, I forgot the 9. Pretty good for first try, I’ll see if I can remember them tomorrow. My objects were three blind mice,a 14-year-old, a Great big one, a pentagram, dice with nine dots on it, half a dozen eggs, a couple.
I got all but the second one. So close! But I think I would have remembered that many numbers without the mind trick. I’m curious how much it would help with longer lists
I walk in and see my pull up bar with 3 rubber things for the arm. I open the door to the living room and on the door is attached the number 14 i walk in and in my fireplace i have 1 small tree on my desk five sheets of papers and on my couch nine springs. On the table there are two laptops and on my cabinet i see the number six hanging. This works
i would take the first letter from every thing and make list:
for example
Eggs Sugar and Cinamon
= CES
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i had 6 dangling on the ceiling and had to pause because I was laughing too hard
im actually going to shut my eyes in the exam if i can't remember a particular thing, and perhaps it might calm my anxiety as i do my exams in a hall. thank you!
In the subject which I study I have to study nearly 200 definitions.How can I use memory palace technique to study whole definitions?Should I make 200 memory palaces?
Pharmacy?
I remembered a red three playing the piano, a light green fourteen watching tv, a white one solving a paper, a dark blue five cooking, a pink two watching computer, a purple nine running in the treadmill and an orange six sleeping in my bed, this is amazing, I remembered everything!
it really works! amazing.
hmmm the only problem i see with this (I am new to this and still researching) is that the video says to use a location you are familiar with so if you use this strategy multiple times won't that confuse u? or are u supposed to find a diff location for everything u want to remember :0
I enter my palace where I am greeted by 3, walk to the kitchen where 14 is dancing (1 is dancing with a 4), in the living room 1 is lying on the sofa watching TV, 5 is rocking in a chair outside on a terrace, 9 is sitting on a toilet, 2 is upstairs playing computer games and 6 is chilling in a bath tub. Great technique 😀
Thanks😊
3,14,1,5,9,2,6. I hope thats right. I made very crazy images in my mind which helped. Memory palace is very good. The more you train it, the faster you can do it. I often have to put numbers from one file to other so this helps me remember it without having to cbeck the number several times. It also trains my brain so it has benefits. I recommend this also for school to remember dates or pieces of information. It takes time to master it tho
As a person with aphantasia, I can't tell if this actually works or if people are just trolling.
nvm: Even if you have aphantasia it still works but thinking of abstract things like the number two in a certain room will not work. You need to make a story where there are 3 objects and only three objects there for some specific reason.
I tried so hard put I don't think I can visualize things in my head enough cuz I wouldn't work 😩 and I really thought it was gonna work lol
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Are you dealing with Aphantasia?
You are great!
.. wow .. i remembered all of .. them . Thanku soooooooo .. much .. i'll use it in learning atomic masses ..
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do you have any recommendation for learing to draw similar to the drawings in your videos?
Many thanks.
:)
Using my office building as my palace
3,14,1,5,9,2,6
3 (receptionists), 14 (the security card holding a huge welcome card with 40 written on it) ,1 (Only 1 out of the 10 gates were in use and lighed up in green) ,5,(There were 5 escalator that goes in the same direction - usually there's only 3 ) 9 (9 statue of the company logo dancing in the galley) ,2 (only 2 lifts out of the 10 were working and I imagined our CFO and CEO standing infront of the 2 lift doors ) ,6 ( I walked into the lift and there's only 1 button that says 6th floor)
Think I kinda got the hang of this!
진짜 기억이 납니다. 감사합니다. 번창하세요.
3 cushions on my livingroom couch.
14 Styrofoam cups in the cupboard.
1 large pot on the counter.
5 plates in the sink.
9 white t-shirts in my dresser drawer.
6 wooden panels in the workshop.
Oxygen tank is 3 quarters full. Check the glucometer, and we have 14 test strips, 1 lancet, 5 alcohol prep pads, 9 and gauze pads. Drug box has 2 safety tags instead of one. Check the oxygen main, and the regulator is set to 6L/min. This is part of the routine that I use to check the ambulance before I start my shift.
Awesome
I walk into the mud room and the number 3 is hanging on the door to the house. I open the door and my diss are tugging the number 14 between them. I head into the bathroom. The 1 is sitting on the toilet reading a newspaper and the 5 is hanging with the hand towels. In the study, 9 is sitting watching tv. I head to the kitchen and 2 is dancing to the radio. I head down the hallway and 6 is sitting dejectedly on the stairs.
3 laying near the shows, 14 watching competitive sports , 5 cooking, 1 laying in bed , 9 typing on laptop, 2 taking a dump
I felt like 6 was there but forgot which task I assigned it.
i got most of the numbers except the last one!!! yaaay!
Amazing 😊✨
Thank you :)
This is only possible for single words not theories or doctrines. I am trying to memorise as much as I can for a legal exam. Does anybody have any tips apart from using Anki?
You explained it perfectly and hey it worked first try like expected thanks for the viedeo
Glad to hear that!
This is great
I week later I still remember the order of numbers wow
As someone on the autistic spectrum I would like to point out that it’s much easier to concentrate and take information on board when not being bombarded with other stimuli. So for example the background music in this video competes with the narration, making it much harder to focus on the main message. (I appreciate that this is not everyone’s problem, but I would never play music whilst teaching, it just doesn’t feel like it will conducive to focus.)
I adapt this by having rhyming objects in my place. For example shoe for two. Front door, Four. ect.
It’s 4 days later and I still remember, I am never not doing this to remember things
How can i use this technique with more complex subjects... As for example Medicine? I've used with simpler, less complex things. Grosseries, phone numbers, etc. It would be usefull to try this with a college textbook? Sorry for my english. Self taught. Feel free to correct me.
+Alejandro Restrepo to be honest I’m not sure. Technically you can, but I’m not sure how useful it will be as the chunks of information you attach to each room are pretty small. But why don’t you give it a try and tell us later if it worked.
Do a search on Google. There are many people using this as well as many other memory techniques. They have different techniques for different types of info.
3 coats on hooks by the door, fourteen stairs, one laptop in the office, five pillows on my bed, nine books next to my son's need, two toothbrushes in the bathroom, three towels on the banister.
:)
this is cool, only the problem is I forget how my house looks like or where I placed the furnitures
I worry I have a "Memory Mobile Home"-a single wide and its not strapped down and there's a storm coming....
THIS IS AMAZING👊💯
I DO remember the numbers by using this technique when i enter my house i can see 3 washes in bathroom (she has white hands like miky😂)1 search for something in the fridge and 4 near him dancing 5 jumb in bed. 9 loking out of the window and waving to 6 outside and 2 read a mathematic 's book .it's so funny😁
I use the major system to make words out of numbers.
"I'm tired. I'll punch a llama. Lovebug be my name" = 31415965358979323
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I just imagined a crazy guy in a prison cell repeating the numbers
I've seen this video like 10 times and can't remember how to do this
Just put the instructions in your mind palace.
Can you explain how to deal with doubt, without being arrogant?
But do you override other items and create a new palace or do you keep them where they are and add stuff on top of them? Can you rearrange already existing items? How do you remember which path to take when you want to revisit something so that you don't accidentally do something wrong? If the "palace" you chose is too small, and you have already filled it, do you need to move everything to a new bigger palace or do you expand the space you have by adding rooms/drawers/move walls/etc?
SiMe it is ur braun and ur imagenation !
u can do everything u wabt ... expand the palace or add room or chanfe the walls place... it all depens on ur imagenation!
But that doesn't answer some of my other questions like how to remember the path to find those things or if I can move them around. For example. The recipe they gave. How would I remember where to visit in order to find the right ingredients for that specific dish? It sounds like a perfect method for storing information, but not how to get it out in the right order. Especially when things overlap. Do I need two places for two different dishes if I need to add half a spoon of sugar? If there is no answer yet but it works then that's fine too but I would love to know if there is some kind of answer to these more specific question. Theory and practice are two different things and I would love to understand both as much as I can. Doesn't mean I won't try to use it, it's just bonus knowledge :]
SiMe well , first of all you can retrieve the information in the right order because you have numbered the objects and stored information accordingly . So that will not be hard . But for reusing the memory you can either start afresh in the memory palace or use it with the old information that you have stored. Let's say you have successfully remembered the name of presidents of a country(e.g. U.S.A) in successive order and you have arranged it in your mind palace. Suppose the first thing when you enter your mind palace is a doormat (which will be object number 1) . Now for George Washington , let's assume you have pictured a guy that you know named George holding the Washington monument . This is the first thing on your lists of presidents . But now if you need to remember something else for e.g. a certain list of books in alphabetical order and the first thing on this list is the book "Animal farm" , so now you can add visualize something like George sitting in an animal farm holding the Washington monument. And when you recall I think you can easily distinguish between a book and a president. However this doesn't work that well for using short term lists like cards . If you have a list of cards memorized in a specific order and you have to learn another set of cards in a different order this technique might be very difficult. So you can use another "journey" for it and start with a blank memory palace.
SiMe If you have 2 recipes and they vary by half a spoon of sugar you could use the same journey for the two dishes and at a certain step when you need to add sugar in one , you can picture 2 things for the 2 different dishes only at that particular point.
Raycher Smith Thank you so much for this.
3 14 1 5 9 2 6 wow i remembered it!! That too in the order! 😁
3 on the sofa ,1 on the TV, 2 on the floor, 9 on the fridge.. lol
fantastic
ramula kol Tina113 I forgot the 9 :( I put it in a poster and forgot the poster was there when I walk through the hallway
I got it too! 3 in the sink, 14 under the stairs, and I stabbed the 1 directly into the couch hahaha
Does anyone know a good software for this method?
so first there was a 3 on the sofa watching TV, then a 6 placed in a mug in the kitchen, a 5 drawn in dust on the car in the garage and a 9 hanging on the washing line..... that's all i can remember.
Mainly things with wheels Lmfao mine was way crazier and stupider:
first there was a 3 stuck in the toilet drowning, then there was a 14 on top of my 14 year old sister reading r/I’m14andthisisdeep then there was a 1 dancing on top of the table to “sOmEbOdY cOmE gEdDuR sHe’S dAnCin LiKE a StrEePEeR” and a 5 throwing money at the 1 then a 9 sleeping on the couch while some cats were eating it for some reason idk then a 2 controlling a too too train and it runs over you then BOOM everything goes black and there’s a black screen with w a s t e d and a 666 in the bottom. (for the number 6).
I remember everything you told 7 items to make pancakes and the number you told. I think my memory is very good.
I got caught up in setting the stage for each number I lost track :)
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i ener my house, go to my desk and i see 3 markers, then i go to the balcony, where i can see a shirt with the number 2 and pants with the number 6 drying. Then i go into the living room to see my 1 dog and some photos mine with the number 14 and a photo of my whole family (we are 5 in total). then finally i return to my desk and see the fan with a weird nine engraved on it.
3,14,5,1,9,2,6 wow! I did not expect i could actually do mind palace but is it also suitable if i want to use it in mathematics? Like how do i animate objects for math formulas and concepts?
I couldn’t come up with a clever pictures quick enough. Before the next number comes up.Just envisioning a number at each location didn’t seem to work.
I think this tecnique works well with objects, but I'd like to know how we can use it to learn another language. Thanks, guys.
mnemonics can help. and in essence they are very similar. Check out our video on learning languages
Same here!
Sprouts thanks your atention
Scarlett Kellermann HI Scarlett. What languages do you have interest to learn. I speak Portuguese and I have interest in improve my english. Cheers!
Hehe Sou brasileira também! Também quero melhorar o meu Inglês mas mais especificamente estava procurando material para memorizar conjugações em Hebraico.