Brain power - Memory techniques - How easy can we remember things? - Peg-1

 

 Effective memory techniques - Part 2

How to effectively remember things with much ease?

The blog contains exercises, practical techniques to develop the retention capacity of the brain.

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How do we remember things?

Association:

We associate the unknown with the very known. There are few things that are very common and we have been practicing them every hour and every second, they form the very breath of our life, we peg or relate few things with those easily remembered factors and decode the ones that we ought to remember.

Peg or Pegging:

Pegging is a method of listing down few readily existing items like Alphabets or numbers or list of fixed items and associating new items (to be remembered) with those.

Unlike Stories this doesn't require pre defined story line.

We just need to remember the associate item names.

In this part we'll learn how to remember 10 items

1. 1-10 in sequential order, 
2. we shall be able to provide them in reverse order, or 
3. name the item we can mention the sequence number or 
4. if the number sequence is provide we can mention the item.

To my knowledge these are the 4 possibilities, you can mention in the comments section if there is more memory application apart from these. 

The good or not so good attribute of this method is this can be programmed, reprogrammed and re-reprogrammed multiple times with any new list of items. If the pegging system is proper then the results will be amazing.

The Pegging method

1. Number 1 - Bun
2. Number 2 - Shoe
3. Number 3 - Tree
4. Number 4 - Door
5. Number 5 - Hive
6. Number 6 - Wicks
7. Number 7 - Sown
8. Number 8 - Freight
9. Number 9 - Rain
10. Number 10-Den

Number 1 - Bun 

Relate Number 1 with bun, a huge, huge bun, lots and lots of bun and now you can spread or pin your desired object or item into this bun and grill it such that its impression is embossed on the  bun and they become inseparable.

Number 2 - Shoe 

Associate number 2 with shoe, you can stuff your item into this shoe, maximize the shoe and stuff more similar item into this shoe until it overflows.

Number 3 - Tree

Now associate the number 3 with tree, imagine this tree as a huge forest and every tree that you come across has your desired item / object hanging from the tree as its fruits or flowers. Keep on imagining it and enjoy yourself plucking those items from the tree and consuming it yourselves and sharing it with others.

Number 4 - Door

This number 4 is rhyming with door, you have stuffed all your item 4 into a room and this door is unable to open as the items are so stuffed and it prevents opening of this door, few of the notable items slip and slide through the door and fall all over you as you focus to open the door more vigorously.

Number 5 - Hive

Bee-hive rhymes with number 5, imagine yourself with bee and you collect your respective item and store them onto this bee hive for future use or recovery. This item after stored gets itself completely filled within the beehive and starts enlarging and overflowing from the hive.

Number 6 - Wicks

Wicks rhymes with six, you can imagine a huge number of wicks in sets of 6 or more where the fuel for this wicks is your desired item or object and it burns and the smokes also form the shape of the object.

Number 7 - Sown 

Now pick up a hand full of your 7th item and start to sow them in the soil, see them as you sow, to your surprise these start to grow immediately and are growing into huge items that are connected to the soil or sand and waiting for you to harvest.

Number 8 - Freight

You are packaging a container of the item number 8 into a freight box and this will be received by you on as the receiver. The box is overflowing the object or material and the entire ship or flight is transformed into this item.

Number 9 - Rain

Number nine goes with rain, you see and imagine your item as flowing from the sky and you open you hands to catch them in your hands and fill your entire house with this item that falls as rain.

Number 10-Den

Number ten rhymes with Den, you are being chased away by the item ten and now you take refugee in a den and as you enter the den you are surprised to see the entire den with the item 10.

Please focus more on the imagination part as this is the base to remember the list of items.

Happy remembering...