Thread: Photographic Memory Building

JaphyR,

I actually first came across the method from the bbc getsmarter site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/getsm...martstore.shtml
A few lines down you see the header "The Journey Method". I suppose i just found it very easy and saw a great potential in it, but im yet to buy anything associated with the subject.

The thing i like is that your free to take the technique to new levels, your not just limited to one journey, which is good because you can fill lots of information in.. (will make more sense after reading the site)
For instance I came up with a new idea for remembering lots of subjects, id imagine my house, each room has a person I know in and a link to a topic, so i might have one friend playing a guitar for music, and in another room someone i know writing out lots of equations on a huge blackboard for maths etc. Each of these rooms is a link to that particular persons house, and within each house you can use the same method having each room as a topic in that subject. You then need to have items or more links until you have the information you need there, With linking like this you can quite easily create a huge web of information you can simply walk around during the exam as a reminder. (I usually store 3 peices of information at each location if i have alot to store).

Hmm, people keep talking about photographic memory like it were some unempirical phenomenon. Photographic memory does exist, as fact. It's just some of these people who claim to be able to remember stupidly enormous amount in a minimal period of time that are not proven.

I don't see why they shouldn't be able to either. The brain is a big thing, with seemingly infinite memory, so why shouldn't some people be able to 'cheat' their way past the barriers stopping us from getting information overload?

I actually first came across the method from the bbc getsmarter site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland...artstore.shtml
A few lines down you see the header "The Journey Method". I suppose i just found it very easy and saw a great potential in it, but im yet to buy anything associated with the subject.[/b]

Thanks for the link. I had heard of this method before, but never looked into it. I like it enough to share with students. I really do very little memorization - most of what I want to remember, like math, is based on understanding with very little memorization involved. The only serious memorization work I've dealt with has been learning foreign language vocabulary. With the serious volume of that kind of memorization, I think I prefer to just make lists and practice them, rather than build mansions and high-rise buildings! But then again, those lists always reduce themselves to 10 or 20 words I have a real hard time remembering. Maybe I will start to use these journeys for those difficult-to-remember remnants.

Also, as I continue to dream lucidly, I am curious to play with some of these ideas in the dreamworld.

becomingagodo, who is Darren Brown, and why is he your hero? Why do you take everything he says as absolute fact?

And intelligence isn't memory. If that were the case, then computers are more intelligent than most human beings, and I'm sure you'll agree with me that that isn't the case.

I read a theory somewhere (I think it was a theory and not proven) that the human brain stores memories in holographic images (is images the right word? I don't know) because (I'm not entirely sure, maybe research this for 100% reliability) a photographic negative stores pictures like a puzzle (for example, if you took a photo of a banana, and took the negative and cut a piece out of it, and developed that piece, you would get a photo of a piece of a banana) whereas a holographic image stores pictures almost like DNA, where every part of the holograph has the info to display the whole pic (so if you cut a piece of a holographic negative of a banana and develop it you'd get a whole banana when developed).

So the brain has a huge amount of space to store info because it's all holographic, so it can just keep small pieces of the memories but still be able to develop the whole thing.

They did tests on mice (this is I know) where they got mice to memorise the path out of a maze (by putting them in the middle of the maze and getting them to find the way out time and time again until they followed the right path every time because they'd memorised it) and then cut out various parts of their brain, and it didn't matter which part of the brain they cut out, the mice still remembered (which might prove in some way the holographic theory).

Now, I can (if I make a conscious effort) remember most things well, like if I'm studying and I'm concentrating on remembering, then when I'm writing my exam I can see the page in my head, and see how the sentence is written, see the marks on the paper, everything. Not always though, sometimes I can see the page and only some of the writing (the part I was concentrating on obviously) or see the layout but not the actual content. I also have a terrible memory for recalling sequences of events, like childhood memories aren't placed well chronologically in my memory.

Anyway I think that photographic memory could be done by finding a way of accessing small parts of the memories, the holographic parts.

As for the memory palace thing, the only place I can remember seeing this was in a book (a movie too) by Stephen King called DreamCatcher. These aliens are trying to get this memory out of this guy (an alien has possessed his body, so he is locked in his mind) and he locks himself in a room in his mind which contains all his memories. Then he organises all the folders and files (that's how his memories are depicted in his head and the book) and burns the ones the aliens are looking for.

Cool hey?

becomingagodo................. You are claiming that speed reading is impossible but there you are completely entirely absolutely WRONG! I speed read and I do it with good efficiency. When I read faster I understand MORE compared to when I ready slowly.

PhotoReading also I belive is possible although I haven't tried it yet. But read please PhotoReading Whole Mind System and post a comment !