Remembering Numbers and Word Prompts

In the lesson named 'Try to Remember', I mentioned Flash Cards and that they are a nice way to revise.

The flash card test example teaches me that any letter of the alphabet or digit from 0 to 9 has an associated image.

Here, I explain why this is useful knowledge for me...

If you need to memorise a number to be used today then you can store it in memory as images rather than as normal numbers. 84553 can be represented as images rather than as written digits.

Why complicate the number in this way? Because we have already seen with the BLOKES system that it is easy to remember items in sequence - so why not imagine images at the BLOKES system locations in order to memorise the number?!

The flash card example states that 84553 is made of an 8 image (a mermaid), a 4 image (an illusionist), a 5 image (a pensive memoriser chimpanzee) and a 3 image (a queen) .

At the first 5 locations of the BLOKES Bathroom, I can imagine each item at each place:

bath: the mermaid

tiles: the illusionist

shower partition: memorising chimpanzee

mirror cabinet: memorising chimpanzee

electric light: a queen

So, if I take time to learn a system where numbers exist as images, I can enhance my ability to memorise numbers!

Similarly, if each letter of the alphabet has its own image then I can memorise prompts for notes. For example, if an essay point requires me to recall penicillin, I could imagine penicillin at one of the BLOKES locations or I could imagine a prompt for the letter 'P': imagine the image for 'Papa'.

The images which I use for 'A to Z' are related to the 'international alphabet' which people use when spelling things over the telephone. 'P is for Papa' in the international alphabet. 'T is for Tango', etc..

Soon, the bathroom locations of the BLOKES system are over-used with the doctor's prescription from the previous lesson and now with the mermaid as well, and so on. Yes, you could struggle along with memorising many items at one particular place but we all have our mental limits! It is better, for me, to have many imaginary locations where I can store new information. I hope that a time will come when I no longer need memorised information and then I can forget what is at the bath or the tiled wall or the shower partition and begin again with a 'clean slate' there. For example, 84553 might not be so important that I need to know it next week!

Also, just because you imagine a mermaid in a bath, that does not mean that you will remember it tomorrow. So even these visual memory techniques need their own revision sessions!

Do you want to see the numbers and letters and their images all together?

The flash card test allows you to present flash cards in Normal Sequence before you click 'CREATE'.

Once the flash cards show, you can use a VIEW option to see all of the images and their labels in a list!