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Simple Tips On How To Develop A Photographic Memory
November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
You know, it’s not just the freaks of nature that can have photographic memory! Have you been amazed to see and hear about stories of incredible people who are able to accurately draw a whole city landscape after viewing the scene just once. Or those who are able to recite whole volumes of literature or remember huge strings of numbers.
But what if you were to realize that you have exactly the same potential abilities as these amazing human beings? How would that change your life! This article explores just 3 techniques that you can implement into your own life so that you too can begin developing your photographic memory. But just remember, your brain requires exercise and training to think like this. So if even if it feels tough the first couple of times you use these techniques, don’t give up. Keep going and give your brain time to develop.
The first of these techniques is calling the ‘link’ system and it is particularly good when you need to memorize long lists of data such phone numbers or a grocery list. The essence of the link system is that you visually link each item on the list to an item you already know. But you link this item in a ridiculous way, the more ridiculous the better. So if you are remembering a list of grocery items (milk, butter, bread, eggs & cheese) you would visualize the milk as still in the cow, then link it to the next item which is butter, by imagining the cow churning the butter with it’s hooves and so on. It sounds ridiculous, but your brain recalls these items because of how ridiculous they are.
The second method used is the peg system which is another good way for memorizing lists. It works by pre-memorizing a list of words that are easy to associate with the numbers they represent (#1-gun, #2-zoo, #3-tree, #4-door, #5-hive etc). Those objects form the “pegs” of the system. Then in the future, to rapidly memorize a list of arbitrary objects, each one is associated with the appropriate peg. If you were trying to remember the following list: keys, wallet, phone, laptop and trash you would imagine your keys being fired out of a gun (#1), your wallet being eaten by lions in the zoo (#2) etc.
The third method, the ‘major’ system can be used very successfully in conjunction with the peg method. The major system gets you to ‘convert’ the numbers into a consonant sound and and then add vowels into the sounds so as to create words. By using this method you are able to memorize large number lists.
Developing photographic memory is not too hard to master, just use these methods outlined above (and practice them consistently!) and you will be shocked by your huge improvement in your memory work.
This article only skims the topic of how to develop a photographic memory. For more information and resources, visit Michelle Rudge’s blog at How To Develop A Photographic Memory.
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