Sunday, 15 September 2013

Memory Palace

Definition of memory
mem·o·ry  (mm-r)
n. pl. mem·o·ries
1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.
2. The act or an instance of remembering; recollection: spent the afternoon lost in memory.
3. All that a person can remember: It hasn't happened in my memory.
4. Something remembered: pleasant childhood memories.
5. The fact of being remembered; remembrance: dedicated to their parents' memory.
6. The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a person or group of persons: within the memory of humankind.
7. Biology Persistent modification of behavior resulting from an animal's experience.
8. Computer Science
a. A unit of a computer that preserves data for retrieval.
b. Capacity for storing information: two gigabytes of memory.
9. Statistics The set of past events affecting a given event in a stochastic process.
10. The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation.
11. Immunology The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more powerfully to subsequent exposure to an antigen.

Memory Palace

Here is how to remember. First you must choose a place. It should be somewhere you know very well. Most people pick somewhere spacious and grand - a great hall, one of the ruined towels of the city. You get to know this place as well as you can. You walk around it, impressing every detail on your memory, until you can tour it in your mind when you are not there.

Trip from my home to Tate Modern

Then you place the things you need to remember around the building, in the form of pictures. These pictures must be startling  enough to trigger your imagination.

It could be a rubbish 

It could be a book

It could be the news

It could be a poster

It could be a wallpaper

It could be a glass

It could be a toilet tissue roll

They can be the faces of people you know.

Twins

Dark side

Always in my mind, never far away from my mind

Movement

Flowing uphill

Glass

Moon

Spot

50 shades of grey

Joan of Arc

Honesty

Half


Side

Other side

Below

Shoulder

Faceless

Lips

Sing a song

Hm


Motion




Memories... aren't an escape!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTyRMfdDfc8
Memories is an anime produced in 1995 by artist/director Katsuhiro Otomo

Documentary by Ross McElwee 'Photographic memory'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcAjO5G3kTc



References
  1. 9 p. Hari Kunzru ''Memory Palace''
  2. Youtube


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