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Chapter 31 Activating the Right Brain Memory Circuit (2)
2. Imagine training (5 minutes)

We all have the experience that it takes less time to memorize images than memorize words, and it is easier to forget.Therefore, when we memorize words, we can also convert them into images, which is much easier to memorize and has a better memory effect.

Imagination training is to convert the target memory content into images, and then create dynamic connections between images, through which it is easy to remember the target memory content and its sequence.As mentioned in the previous chapters of this book, this connection can be in various ways such as exaggeration and anthropomorphism. The more specific and clear the details of the image, the better.This kind of imagination is not boundless, it must be expressed in one or two sentences, otherwise it will be out of the purpose of memory.

If there are two water cups and two mushrooms, please design a scene. The water cups and mushrooms are the main body of the scene. Can you imagine what this scene is like?The more exotic the better.

For photographic memory, many people are not used to transforming data into images. Regarding this point, we can only rely on the persistent training of young friends.

Coding knowledge and deepening memory
In the smash hit TV series "Latent", there is a passage in which Yu Ze, an underground party member, has become in touch with the organization. He always listens to the signal on the radio for the "exploration team" on time, and then writes down various numbers while listening, and then deciphers them into a paragraph.You must think this way of communication is cool, in fact, we can also learn in this way, which is coded memory.

Coding memory means that in order to memorize more accurately and quickly, we can memorize according to pre-programmed numbers or other fixed sequences.The coded memory method is based on the "theory of sharing the functions of the left and right brains of human beings" by the American psychologists Sperry and Myers, who won the Nobel Prize, and combines the logical thinking of the left brain with the image thinking of the right brain. The memory method of the principle summary.On the other hand, regular practice with coded memory method is also conducive to the development of image thinking in the right brain.In fact, as early as the 19th century, William Stoker had systematically summarized the coded memory method and compiled it into the book "Memory", which was officially published in 1881.The most basic point of the encoding memory method is encoding.

The so-called "encoded memory" is to associate and memorize the things that must be remembered with the corresponding numbers.

例如，我们可以把房间的事物编号如下：1——房门、2——地板、3——鞋柜、4——花瓶、5——日历、6——橱柜、7——壁橱。如果说“2”，马上回答“地板”。如果说：“3”，马上回答“鞋柜”。这样将各部位的数字号码记住，再与其他应该记忆的事项进行联想。

Start by making up about 10 numbers.First, the image of the objects in the room emerges in the mind and numbered.In the future, as long as you think of the number, you can immediately think of various things in the room, and it only takes 5 to 10 minutes to write it down.In the process of repeated practice, the code can be clearly memorized.

After such exercises are carried out more proficiently, add about 10 more.If you can do dozens of codes and memorize them, you can use them flexibly.You can also encode your body parts, which is very effective in improving memory.

As the basis of the coded memory method, as mentioned above, it is to code each part of the room with a number, which is the "hook" of memory.

Please connect the following examples with the method of association, and remember these 10 things: 1—airplane, 2—book, 3—orange, 4—Mount Fuji, 5—dance, 6—juice, 7—baseball, 8—sorrow, 9—newspaper, 10—letter.

First connect these 10 things according to the aforementioned coding method, and then use the method of association to memorize.Associative examples are as follows:
1. Doors and planes: imagine the entrance being hit by a giant plane or knocked out of sparks.

2. The floor and the book: Imagine the book on the floor taking off your shoes.

3. Shoe cabinet and oranges: imagine that after opening the shoe cabinet, countless oranges fly out.

4. Vase and Mt. Fuji: Imagine Mt. Fuji growing out of the vase.

5. The calendar and the dance: Imagine the calendar dancing.

6. Cabinets and Juice: Imagine instead of ice cubes in a jug of juice, a wooden cabinet.

7. The Closet and the Baseball: Imagine a baseball player using the closet as protection.

8. Picture frame and sadness: The picture frame fell and hit my head, and the most precious picture frame was broken, so I was sad and wept.

9. Posters and Newspapers: Imagine newspapers sticking to the wall instead of posters.

10. TV set and letter: Imagine a large envelope with a fluorescent screen on it, and the envelope becomes a TV set.

If you associate memory with the above method, you can recall it immediately no matter what order you take.

This method can also be practiced in this way. First, write down the numbers from 1 to 20 on the paper, and let your friends tell you various things.Then ask a friend to say any number at will, and if the answer is correct, draw a line to tick it off.

It is said that Jerry Lucas, an authority on memory in the United States and a famous player of the basketball championship team, can completely remember more than 3 phone numbers in the phone book in Manhattan.What he uses is this "digital coding memory method".

During the First World War, the famous female spy Halle, code-named H-21, secretly photographed important new tank designs in the secret vault in the French General Morgan's study.At that time, the general who was greedy for women asked Harry to live in his house. Harry had already figured out that the general's confidential documents were stored in the secret vault in the study, and he often started to move after Morgan was asleep.What was very difficult was that the lock used a dial, and the door of the vault could only be opened if the correct number was dialed.She thought, the general is getting old and has many things to do, and he has been particularly forgetful recently, maybe he will write down the password in a notebook or somewhere else.Harry couldn't find it after many searches.

One night, she got Morgan drunk with sleeping pills, and tiptoed into the study. The vault door was embedded in the wall behind an oil painting, and the dial number was 6 digits.She turned the dial through combinations one by one from 1 to 9, without success.Seeing that it was almost dawn, she felt a little desperate.Suddenly, the wall clock on the wall caught her attention. The time she arrived at the study was 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, but the pointer on the wall clock pointed to 9:35:15.This is most likely the secret number on the dial, otherwise why wouldn't the wall clock go off?But 9:35:5 should be 93515, which is only five digits.Harry thought again, if it were interpreted as 21:35:15, wouldn't it be 213515.She then turned the dial according to the 6 numbers, and the door of the vault opened.

Morgan is old and forgetful, and uses the coding method to memorize these 6 numbers. As long as he sees the scale of the hands on the clock, he can deduce the password, and others will never notice it.But his opponent was a specially trained veteran, and she saw through the mechanism with the same thinking.This is a story of using coding to do a special job.

Encoding memory can also be applied when listening to a person speak or reading a book.When we listen to lectures, we need to remember the key points in detail. When we read, we can also code the key points one by one for memory.

After mastering the basic method of encoding memory, as long as the things around you can be encoded with numbers for memory, and the memory content can be recalled.

You can try to do it, please memorize the events corresponding to each serial number in the first 100 of the 20 major events that influenced the history of the world in order:
（1）汉谟拉比法典；（2）埃赫那吞改革；（3）罗马建立；（4）犹太教的创立；（5）佛教的创立；（6）儒学的创立；（7）希波克拉底创立医学；（8）希腊三哲的哲学研究；（9）道教创立；（10）马拉松战役；（11）亚历山大远征；（12）基督教创立；（13）米兰敕令；（14）查士丁尼法典；（15）斯巴达克起义；（16）伊斯兰教创立；（17）查理大帝统一西罗马；（18）十字军东征；（19）自由宪章运动；（20）成吉思汗的霸业。

Enhancing the impression with exaggeration
There are many ways to develop the right brain, and the method of absurd associative memory is one of them. As we have mentioned before, the right brain mainly thinks with images and mental images. The method of absurd memory is almost entirely based on this working method , to associate as absurdly as possible other things from one item to be remembered.

The ancient Egyptians had a passage in "Ad Haileimu": "The trivial and commonplace things we see every day are generally forgotten, and the strange things we hear or see , Unexpected, vulgar, ugly or shocking violations of the law, etc., can be remembered for a long time. Therefore, things that we often hear and see around us do not usually pay attention to them, but in Some things that happened in my youth are still fresh in my memory. Those things that I saw with the same eyes, those ordinary and commonplace things are easy to be missed from my memory, while things that are uncharacteristic and contrary to common sense can never be remembered. Forget, isn’t this against common sense?”

The ancient Egyptians did not understand the laws of memory at that time.In fact, I am more fascinated by those absurd and bizarre things in the depths of my memory... This is the source of the absurd memory method. Generally speaking, absurd association refers to unnatural associations, which establish a far-fetched connection between old and new knowledge. connect.This connection can be exaggerated or paradoxical.For example imagine yourself as an alien.Here, exaggeration refers to exaggerating, or shrinking, or enlarging, or increasing, or reducing, things that need to be remembered.Absurdization refers to the more absurd, bizarre, and ridiculous the imagination, the deeper the impression.

For teenagers, the most direct help of the absurd mnemonic is that you can use this mnemonic to remember the English words you have learned.For example, you only need to look at English words once with this method. When you make ridiculous associations in your mind while looking at these words, you will remember nearly 20 words in a very short time.

For example, when memorizing the word "Legislate (legislation)", you can decompose the word into three letters: leg, is, and late, and then record "Legislate" as "legislation for legs (Leg), always (is) too Late (late)".Such absurd associations will not be easily forgotten in the future.Now, we illustrate how absurd associative memory should operate from the most common example.

Here are 20 items you will be able to memorize in order in a surprisingly short amount of time just by applying the Absurd mnemonics method:

carpet paper bottle bed

fish chair window phone

cigarette nails typewriter shoes

microphone pen gramophone tray
Walnut Shell Carriage Coffee Pot Bricks

The first thing you want to do is mentally picture a "carpet" for your first project.You can relate it to something you are familiar with.In fact, you're going to see any kind of rug soon, but also the rugs in your own home.Or imagine your friend rolling up your rug.The items you are familiar with will themselves be remembered as things you now know or have remembered as the item "carpet".Now, the thing you have to keep in mind is the second item "paper".You have to associate or relate the rug to the paper, and the association has to be as absurd as possible.For example, imagine that the carpet in your home is made of paper, and imagine that the bottle is also made of paper.

Next, make an association between the bed and the fish, or a combination of the two, and you can "see" a giant fish sleeping on your bed.

Now fish and chairs, a huge fish is sitting on a chair, or a big fish is being used as a chair, when you fish you are catching the chair, not the fish.

Chairs and windows: Seeing yourself sitting on a piece of glass instead of a chair and feeling pinched, or you can see yourself slamming a chair out of a closed window before entering the next See the picture before the picture.

Window and Telephone: see yourself answering the phone, but when you hold the handset close to your ear, instead of a phone you are holding a window; or you can see the window as a large telephone dial , you have to move the dial away to look out the window, and you can see yourself reaching for a pane to pick up the phone.

Telephone vs Cigarette: You are smoking a telephone instead of a cigarette, or you hold a large cigarette to your ear and talk to it instead of the receiver, or you can see yourself picking up The microphone comes on, and a million cigarettes fly out of the microphone and hit you in the face.

Cigarette and Nail: You are smoking a nail, or you are driving a cigarette into the wall instead of a nail.

Nails and typewriters: You're driving a giant nail into a typewriter, or all the keys on a typewriter are nails.They sting your hands badly when you type.

Typewriters and Shoes: Seeing yourself wearing a typewriter instead of shoes, or typing with your shoes, you might want to see how a giant shoe with keys is used to type on it.

Shoes vs. Microphones: You're wearing a microphone instead of a shoe, or you're broadcasting into a giant shoe.

Microphone and Pen: Instead of a pen, you write with a microphone, or you broadcast and speak into a giant pen.

Pens and radios: You can "see" a million pens spraying out the radio, or the pens are performing on the radio, or there is a radio on the big pen and you are listening to the program on it.

Radio and Plate: Think of your radio as your kitchen plate, or as if you're eating from the radio instead of the plate, or that you're eating from the plate and while you're eating , listen to the program on the plate.

Plate and Nutshell: "See" yourself biting into a nutshell, but it breaks in your mouth because it's a plate, or imagine serving a meal in a giant shell instead of a plate.

Nutshell and Wagon: You can see a large walnut shell driving a wagon, or see yourself driving a large walnut shell instead of a wagon.

Carriage and Coffee Pot: A big coffee pot is driving a small wagon, or you are driving a huge coffee pot instead of a small wagon, you can imagine your wagon is on the stove, and the coffee is filtered in it .

Coffee Pots and Bricks: See yourself pouring steaming coffee from a brick instead of a coffee pot, or see bricks instead of coffee pouring from the spout of a coffee pot.

now it's right!If you did mentally "see" the mental pictures, you would have no problem recording the 20 items in order from "carpet" to "brick."Of course, explaining this multiple times will take a lot more time than simply doing it.Before moving on to the next project, I can only take a short time to re-examine each picture through mental association.

The wonderful thing about this mnemonic is that once you memorize these ridiculous images, the project sticks in your mind.

(End of this chapter)