Mind map miffs man
Sep. 15th, 2004 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinbloke"Ah I remember when I was <age> it seems like only yesterday."
"But that was ages ago."
"I have a really, really bad memory."
And lo, this was my Thing for the day™ my utterly terrible memory.
Particularly irksome this morning as I had several fantastical dreams of extremely weird nature that I would have liked to retained here - or somewhere at least - so I could further work out the twisted meanderings of my brain in it's unguarded state of delusion.
Obviously, this isn't happening. My memory has been, of late, reduced to post it notes. I have trained myself to ensure that if I want something memorised I write it down and stick it somewhere (wall, door, pocket) and then hope I remember or check it's there when I need to. Training my memory by rote.
But can you improve my memory, I fully admit that mine is absolutely terrible and I would like to assist it in retaining something useful other than the critical result for 100 on the plasma table for Rolemaster1 but how?
Electroshock therapy?
Brain press-ups? (Up and down, uppppp and down)
Feeding it random bits of information and then trying to surprise it by querying mydatabase brain at random times?
Mnemonics?
1 Foe is reduced to a gelatinous pulp, fetch a spatula.
"But that was ages ago."
"I have a really, really bad memory."
And lo, this was my Thing for the day™ my utterly terrible memory.
Particularly irksome this morning as I had several fantastical dreams of extremely weird nature that I would have liked to retained here - or somewhere at least - so I could further work out the twisted meanderings of my brain in it's unguarded state of delusion.
Obviously, this isn't happening. My memory has been, of late, reduced to post it notes. I have trained myself to ensure that if I want something memorised I write it down and stick it somewhere (wall, door, pocket) and then hope I remember or check it's there when I need to. Training my memory by rote.
But can you improve my memory, I fully admit that mine is absolutely terrible and I would like to assist it in retaining something useful other than the critical result for 100 on the plasma table for Rolemaster1 but how?
Electroshock therapy?
Brain press-ups? (Up and down, uppppp and down)
Feeding it random bits of information and then trying to surprise it by querying my
Mnemonics?
1 Foe is reduced to a gelatinous pulp, fetch a spatula.
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Date: 2004-09-15 10:28 am (UTC)But being able to hold onto dreams and remember things without having to write them down would be good, I've dabbled with Mnemonics but I'm not too good with them.
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Date: 2004-09-15 10:33 am (UTC)The best way I've found is to make the things you have to remember into a story, which are far easier to remember than a list.
I find I remember dreams better if I run through them consciously before I sit up or do anything. Otherwise within five seconds of sitting vertically they're all gone. It's like the memory is a bowl of water in the back of my head.
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Date: 2004-09-15 10:45 am (UTC)