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Teaches how to use a memory palace and then follows up with advice for people who can't visualize. Goat. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I've a very very very good spatial memory and yet I've never been able to do the memory palace thing. No idea why.

Meanwhile my wife has aphantasia too, but she is a fucking surgeon. How you become a surgeon without being able to visualise things?!

I always thought the memory palace was just bullshit for Sherlock Holmes.

Multi sensory triggers? Yeah, that works. But pure visual never seemed to work for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    i've got the same "aphantasia but good spatial memory" and what sometimes works for me is using the sense of proprioception to imagine a tether to e.g. the fridge or whatever thing i'm trying to remember, like i'm placing a mental limb on the object in question.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    I always thought the memory palace was just bullshit for Sherlock Holmes.

    I actually mentioned it because, combined with other things, it works for me.

    I can actually still picture the 3 eggs in my head that this person needed, in a triangle in the fridge. Extremely easily. In my mind it’s even kinda dark in there as an extra detail. Not pitch black, but dark.

    I use other things too when I’m cooking (hence the fingers at the end of the comment) because I’m busy, but that kind of visualization works for many people.

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