I’ve never learned the method of loci or Memory Palace, I’ve certainly never tried to take my childhood home and use it to remember things. I find it interesting then that the standup comedy routines I’ve memorized after multiple YouTube viewings, I don’t remember the actual videos, I don’t recall the gestures, the set design, the media qualities of the video transfer. Instead I seem to recall images conjured in my imagination.
Emo Philips saying “My brain started to bleed” calls to mind a vivid memory of him as a youngster, eyes rolling in his head, blood coming out of his ear. There is no such thing in the Youtube video.
I haven’t attached this to a memory palace. This is just a vivid imaginary tableau that is a literal interpretation of a line in standup.
I’m not sure what conclusions to draw from this. Maybe I’ve found a lousy “we got memory palace at home” version of the technique? or is this how most people who aren’t aphantasic memorize things?
I’ve never learned the method of loci or Memory Palace, I’ve certainly never tried to take my childhood home and use it to remember things. I find it interesting then that the standup comedy routines I’ve memorized after multiple YouTube viewings, I don’t remember the actual videos, I don’t recall the gestures, the set design, the media qualities of the video transfer. Instead I seem to recall images conjured in my imagination.
Emo Philips saying “My brain started to bleed” calls to mind a vivid memory of him as a youngster, eyes rolling in his head, blood coming out of his ear. There is no such thing in the Youtube video.
I haven’t attached this to a memory palace. This is just a vivid imaginary tableau that is a literal interpretation of a line in standup.
I’m not sure what conclusions to draw from this. Maybe I’ve found a lousy “we got memory palace at home” version of the technique? or is this how most people who aren’t aphantasic memorize things?