Mnemonic room system

A mnemonic Room system is a method of remembering items, based on creating an association between the item and a specific room. For example, if one wished to remember the items (dog, envelope, thirteen, wool, window), one could visualise a room, possibly one's own sitting room, and associate a particular item with a particular object/spot/position within the room: imagine a rainbow coloured dog sitting astride the dining table with a lucicrously long rainbow coloured tail snaking through all the chairs; imagine the walls covered in vivid paintings which all have envelopes as their subject in some way, every single painting; imagine a television with the shape of the digits 1 and 3 side by side, which is unlucky as it means nothing can be clearly seen the screen, only some voice somebody sayin "unlucky for some" over and over again; imagine the dog is eating a bowl of blues spaghetti, which, upon closer inspection, appears to ne blue wool; imagine the floor is a window through which only mud is visible, and it keeps cracking everytime weight is put on it - a uselesss window in a silly place.

In theory one should be able to retain these items in memory longer than learning them by rote due to the fact that it is not just a method for storing words (abstract sybols at best), but are storing infromation about the words, whether the information is real or imagined (which you can visualise). Using this method, which is really just another form of the Mnemonic peg system, one can remember and subsequently recall information any order, according to how one wishes go through the room mentally. However, one is usually initially limited by a lack imagination/creativity, though with some practive one can easily come up with many ideas.

External links

• Human Memory
• Memory Improvement and Learning Information
• Memory Master
• Mind Tools
• World Wide Brain Club