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Post by carpediem on Nov 2, 2010 12:09:10 GMT -5
Is it possible to develop a photographic memory and if so, how?
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Post by ghostjghost on Nov 2, 2010 12:39:04 GMT -5
Well I think it is, because the mind never really forgets, it just puts unused information in a big "Ignore" pile, which is why it can be recalled through hypnosis.
If I were trying to develop photographic memory I would combine several tricks with auto-suggestion.
Auto-suggestion being explained in step one and two of IIH, I will list a few tricks I use to help me remember things.
House of Cards: This trick is used all over the world, basically each card represents a specific piece of information, in this example I'll use pizza's.
So lets say the Ace of Spades represent a Meat-Lovers pizza, the Ace of hearts a Hawaiian pizza, the Ace of diamonds a Vegetarian pizza, and the Ace of clubs a standard Pepperoni Pizza.
Every time you make a pizza you add a card onto the house of cards in your head, every time you make a Pepperoni Pizza you add an Ace of clubs to the house of cards in your head, then when the night is done you can look at your house of cards in your head and know exactly how many of the pizza's were Pepperoni Pizza's as well as how many pizza's were before and after those Pepperoni Pizza's.
Not only does this exercise improve memory but it also improves concentration.
Memory Palace: The memory palace trick is almost identical to the House of Cards trick except that for each bundle of information you are imagining an actual person within a room telling you the information.
Sticking with the previous example let's say you want to know about the pizza's you made, in your head you walk into the kitchen, and for every different pizza you made there is a unique person in that room, and they remember/keep track of the numbers of that type of pizza for you.
So you go to Sarah by the stove and she tells you you made 37 pepperoni pizzas and Derick by the microwave tells you that you made 28 meat-lovers pizzas.
Then say you decide you want to remember something else, like for a math test or something, you can walk from the kitchen into the living room and talk to your Math teacher or your English teacher and they remember those types of things for you.
The advantage of this method is you can remember much larger amounts of information than the previous one and in multiple categories at once, the downside is it requires greater concentration to maintain.
Of course all of these get easier with practice, if you actually use these methods in your daily life, after about a week or two of constant use, they'll become reflex and you won't have to concentrate practically at all, you'll just instinctively add cards or people as those subjects that need remembering come up.
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Post by carpediem on Nov 2, 2010 17:43:03 GMT -5
Wow that was helpful, thanks!
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Post by ghostjghost on Nov 2, 2010 18:20:11 GMT -5
No problem. I used to have really lousy memory, so it was/is a topic of interest for me.
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Post by trismegistus on Nov 4, 2010 8:53:52 GMT -5
For the lulz kidrocket.org/game_simon.phpMy highest is 13 so far lol, fuckin post acute withdrawl. but no seriously, it'll help plus it's a fun challenge rather than just boring memory exercises. As far as developing photographic memory, there's a method for "dreaming true" that is probably the easiest to develop, we're still talking months of trying every night, but in terms of Hermetic development a year is a short amount of time. I would say the reflecting ether and/or the akashic records, but that's quite a bit down the line. Another exercise you can do while your out in public is this. Carry a pen and notepad with you, and walk by the front of a store trying to remember as many items as you can, and either write them out or if your an artist you could even draw a rough sketch of what you see, using the letters ROYGBIV to mark what color things were and then go back and look and see how much you remembered correctly and forgot or simply imagined was there in your memory. This will develop photographic memory, but like any memory with time the accuracy of the "photo" will degrade. You could also do a variant of this exercise and simply take a quick glance of a few seconds in one area so that you begin to consciously remember things in your peripheral vision instead of having to zoom your eyes all around to remember things. If developed to an extreme degree you'll be able to look at the middle of book/magazine for a brief moment then read the entire thing without looking at it. The subconscious mind takes in absolutely everything around you, every sense and sight, but it filters it so that your conscious mind does not become overwhelmed. It's a matter of training your mind to allow more and more sensory objects to come through into your conscious mind to be able to perceive them without making the effort with your direct vision.
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Post by ghostjghost on Nov 4, 2010 9:59:53 GMT -5
I love that game, my highest recent score using vision only is 9, using sound is 12.
I've done a variation of that exercise also, I walk into a room blink twice and walk out then try to write down the names and how many of everything I saw, after I finished writing them down I'd go back to see what I missed.
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