Got up to S in my Memory House
Jan. 29th, 2012 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mcityPreviously.
I wonder what happens if I go past 26 items, and have to start over?
One flaw I've noticed with the list is that if I don't have the item lined up already when I reach a given letter, I forget what I was trying to remember. For example, I got to S, thought up "Star", imagined one of those kids lights shaped like a star (like this, but yellow), thought then briefly forgot that I was trying to remember Whitney Huston's "Waiting to Exhale (Shoop Shoop)".
I suggest that whenever you add a new item, try to think of the next one in line. It works best if you can apply a specific sensory impression to the "anchor" object. For example, K is for Kilo, so I imagine a kitchen scale, the recoil of it under your hand as you press down. L, Lamp, has the resistance in the pullstring. E and J are Echo and Juliet, both women. Juliet, in particular, is the version played by Olivia Hussey (who is looking rather well-preserved these days, for 60) in the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet we watched in English class. I prefer texture, but will cheerfully settle for the riot of color in her dress and hairpiece. Echo is memorable enough by herself.
Currently, Juliet is holding a plastic model of the Paypal logo.
I wonder what happens if I go past 26 items, and have to start over?
One flaw I've noticed with the list is that if I don't have the item lined up already when I reach a given letter, I forget what I was trying to remember. For example, I got to S, thought up "Star", imagined one of those kids lights shaped like a star (like this, but yellow), thought then briefly forgot that I was trying to remember Whitney Huston's "Waiting to Exhale (Shoop Shoop)".
I suggest that whenever you add a new item, try to think of the next one in line. It works best if you can apply a specific sensory impression to the "anchor" object. For example, K is for Kilo, so I imagine a kitchen scale, the recoil of it under your hand as you press down. L, Lamp, has the resistance in the pullstring. E and J are Echo and Juliet, both women. Juliet, in particular, is the version played by Olivia Hussey (who is looking rather well-preserved these days, for 60) in the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet we watched in English class. I prefer texture, but will cheerfully settle for the riot of color in her dress and hairpiece. Echo is memorable enough by herself.
Currently, Juliet is holding a plastic model of the Paypal logo.
