Quote (shem @ Mon, Sep 28 2009, 01:20pm)
Well you are probably the only person who has learnt pi to 100 decimals here. Imma google your technique
I wanna be a freak too!
Actually I can tell you a little about it.
1) So first you wanna be able to remember without forgetting. This mind sound kinda strange at first, but when you give it a try you will probably be surprised.
2) Second you wanna be able to remember things as numbers (if you're into the number-remember-techniques) :D.
Explanation:
1) The mind works with associations as you might know. Let's say you wanna remember this list:
banana
milk
juice
coffeeObviously this isn't a big deal for anyone to remember, but what if there was a list with 100 items? Could you remember all that? Yes, you could. So to get you started with the so called "chain-technique" you can start by associating yourself with the first item in the list. It might be a picture of you eating a banana. But how are you gonna remember that? You always eat banana and that's not a unique picture you have in mind at the moment. Then you do this instead: See for your inner eye that you're eating the biggest banana in the world which could impossibly fit in your mouth. Now that's a picture you cannot forget, since it's extraordinary and unique and absurd!
Now you also wanna remember the rest of the list, which you will do by associating the banana with milk! Here you could see a banana and a glass of milk on a table, which is no interesting at all... What you might wanna do to remember the picture is to see a little banana boat (which is really fast) and it's going in circles inside a purple colored glass of warm milk.
Not you have associated yourself with the banana, and the banana with the milk and now you just have to keep going by associating milk with juice, and it has to be an extraordinary image so use your imagination! As you see you remember things like a chain of associations, and that's why it's called the "chain-technique". (actually it's the swedish word for the technique but I couldn't think of any other word for it.
2) How to remember numbers as pictures:
I use the phonetic number-alphabet with which you can replace a number with a phonetic sound(a consonant).
The sheet I use is like this (works for swedish words, but don't know how well it is for english):
0 = s, z
1 = t, d
2 = n
3 = m
4 = r
5 = l
6 = j, sch, sh
7 = k, g
8 = v, f
9 = b, pThis might not look usable at the beginning but I can promise that it have helped me a lot when remembering phone numbers, postal codes, license plates, well actually all that has to do with numbers
So to begin using this technique you could try making numbers out of the list I gave you before.
banana consists of the b, n, n sounds which would be the number 922. (remember, it's only the consonants, not the vocals!)
milk consists of the m, l, k sounds which is 357.
juice = j, s sounds = 60.
coffee = k, f sounds = 78.
And that's it!
If you want me to post more examples just let me know! I could post some examples lists of which you could try to remember, or try to convert to numbers if you wanna practice these methods.