Comments on: Develop Perfect Memory With the Memory Palace Technique

By: 66 Best Personal Excellence Tips

66 Best Personal Excellence Tips — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:29:03 +0000

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By: 120 Ways to boost your brain power « Din presa noastră cea de toate zilele

120 Ways to boost your brain power « Din presa noastră cea de toate zilele — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:04:16 +0000

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By: axel g

axel g — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:58:52 +0000

Very creative!

Never heard of it before.

Haven’t tried it out yet, but I surely will…

Thanks +_+

By: Pune creierul la copt. « Urban notes of seashore dreamers

Pune creierul la copt. « Urban notes of seashore dreamers — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:16:42 +0000

[...] Construiește-ți un Memory Palace. [...]

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:57:37 +0000

Luciano: Thanks. Pls go ahead and use the example. You may way to check for typos.

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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:56:23 +0000

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By: Belinda

Belinda — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:23:17 +0000

I think one thing that helps me wake up at a recurring time is outside noise. When I normally wake up I think there are routine noises outside that I subconsciously hear and as a result wake up, such as a certain car driving out for the day, a certain bird call… I think also a certain amount of daylight outside triggers me as well.
As for strange hours that aren’t regular, if I’m really worried about not waking up in time I usually stay semi-conscious (which probably means I get a bad night’s sleep, but also means I don’t oversleep and miss my appointment).
So I guess if you want to aid your body clock a little, remove the clock from your room, know that there isn’t a noise to wake you up, and perhaps you will wake up on your own out of sheer panic at oversleeping I guess you have to be worried about the appointment, if you don’t care about the appointment, you will oversleep. And lack of sleep doesn’t really matter either- if you care enough about the appointment, you will wake up automatically.
This works best for me if the last thing I do for the evening is think about the time I am getting up the next day, so it’s kind of “glued” to the … nagging part of my brain. So to speak. I have a bad habit of looking at my schedule while I’m in bed about to go to sleep, so maybe this helps in a way. I check my schedule then turn out the light.

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:02:51 +0000

@Daniel P, @slice22358, @Belinda: I think we have a really fantastic idea here!

I must confess that I am utterly intrigued by the idea of using our internal alarm clocks with the Memory Palace: it switches the Memory Palace from a ‘pull’ concept (I have to willingly step into the palace) to a ‘push’ model (I get transported to the palace automatically whenever I need — the palace just ‘comes to me’).
Needless to say, this opens a whole new dimension for the Palace technique!

For me, the big challenge here is one of trust: how can we set and trust that our internal clocks will work reliably?

Coincidentally, in the last past weeks I am consistently waking up in the same exact time in the morning: 5 minutes before my alarm clock buzzes. I didn’t do anything deliberate to set my internal clock, but definitely there’s something to be explored here.
But, still — even after many days — I’m yet not sure I can assess my trust in it.

If you or any other reader has any experience or resources to suggest about how to reliably set our internal alarm clocks, I would be eager to take a thorough look at it…

Thanks for this great discussion! If you continue to experiment with this, please do report any findings here. In the meantime, I’ll do some research and maybe try some experiments on about internal alarm clocks.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:14:07 +0000

slice22358 and Daniel P, interesting comments about your internal alarm clocks. I do that too I guess, I always set a physical alarm, but I usually wake up a couple of minutes before it goes off, even when I am waking up at unusual times, for example 4am because I have to go to the airport or something.
Also, with remembering things to do, I usually write things down, and I remember them later not because I read my list to remind me, but because the action of writing it down prompted my memory. I don’t even have to read my list sometimes. Maybe that’s what you are doing with your secretary my reminders normally come to me just as I wake up and haven’t really given anything much thought yet. Obviously a good low traffic time to remember things!

By: slice22358

slice22358 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:19:59 +0000

Well I must admit that I forgot to try out the reminder idea put forth by Daniel P. When I realized this, I nearly died from the shear irony of the situation. Anyways, I tried Daniel’s system and was very successful in using it. However, I made a slight change to his system. Instead of going to my secretary every hour, I tell her to remind me when it’s time for me to go check on an appointment. Essentially, I have her set an alarm clock on the table that is set to the time that I need to check in. Besides using this for appointments, I have found this very useful in rousing myself from sleep at 6 in the morning. Before I tried this, no amount of alarm clocks could wake me up, but the alarm clock in my head seems to do the trick. Thank you to Daniel, and I’ll let you know if any new developments occur.