“Ridiculous” Memory Skill

Using “ridiculous” images / story to remember better

Try to associate the numbers with the images: One image corresponds to one digit / symbol

Memory skills for letters?

And then you form “ridiculous” story / images in your mind. After that, the number is recalled more easily.

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You sometimes have to remember apparently “meaningless” numbers such as identity numbers, fax numbers and telephone numbers. Try the “ridiculous” method. Try to remember the following number.

040-27184411

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Now, form a “ridiculous” story based on the images. Because it is ridiculous, you remember better.

Tom drinks a cup of Coca-Cola Zero in front of four ducks. Then, he shares his Coca-Cola by putting it on the floor. It immediately turns into ice. Two little frogs jumps onto the iced Coca-Cola. As soon as the little frogs jump onto it, they start dancing. They dance and sing, “Edelweiss...” A flower with seven petals wants to listen to the song and grows brightly. Tom celebrates the growth of this flower and lightens a candle. He even writes on his palm to commemorate this event. He wants to stay here for eight years. He writes “8 years” on his palm. Tom says loudly, “Who are going to share my happiness?”At this moment, another four ducks come to drink the icy Coca-Cola. They are happy and ask four more ducks to come here. Suddenly, the twelve ducks sing, “Happy birthday to you...” A duck lightens a candle and put it on a cake. It gives the cake to Tom. Tom, in turn, lights up a candle and sing, “Happy birthday to you...” Tom puts this candle on a cake and give the cake to a duck.

How ridiculous is the story? Very ridiculous

How easy is it to remember the numbers? Easier

Try to remember the “pi” constant

3.1415926535897932

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Now, form a “ridiculous” story based on the images. Because it is ridiculous, you remember better.

Three little pigs walk out of their home and enjoy the sunlight in summer. They are little, so they are light. They love light, so they are “light” pigs. Because it is very hot, they walk back home finally. Their home is very dark. The eldest pig lights up a candle. Four ducks like candles very much. Candles are kind. They are friends of the ducks. At night, some ducks are hungry and candles make the pond brighter. The duck can see at night and can catch the fish. The ducks and candles are good friends.

The ducks come here to enjoy the candle light. One of the ducks brings its candle and lights it up. While the they are enjoying the candle lights, five children are walking outside of the pigs' home. The children are looking for candle lights too. The children hate candles. They want to destroy all the candles. Their mothers punish them for playing with candles. They think that it is the fault of the candles. Therefore, they want to smash all the candles in the village.

The children are good at smelling and they smell the tiny smoke of candles. The children also notice the candle lights by looking through the windows of the pigs' home. Altogether there are nine windows. Some windows are open.

In order to destroy all the candles in this village, the children brings two little frogs with them. The frogs act very quickly. They can eliminate the candles by their tongues.

The children thank the frogs for helping them by feeding them with pieces of donut. They bring six pieces of donut. All five children enter the pigs' home. They look around the pigs' home. They are scared by the size of pigs' home. It is as big as a cave in a mountain.

Later, they see the three little pigs. The pigs asks, “What are you doing here?”

The children line up in a straight line to show that all five are united. They say loudly, “We want to destroy the candles. Do you know? We have been punished by our mothers for playing with candles. They have punished us for eight years.” The children can't forget the time when candles were brought to the village. The children continue, “Look, there are nine windows in this pigs' home. We remember how the pigs laughed nastily when we were punished to stand outside of the pigs' home. You looked through the windows in this pigs' home.”

“What's so noisy here?” A flower with seven petals asks. “I grow IN the pigs' home because of the candle lights. I will die without the lights.” The flower is in tears.

The pigs' home starts shaking. It is the earthquake. “Boom... boom... boom...”

The windows start closing automatically. Soon, the nine windows are broken. The three little pigs are so scared that they run out of the windows. The two little frogs follow the three little pigs.

How ridiculous is the story? Very ridiculous

How easy is it to remember the numbers? Easier

Try to form images for some letters / words / phrases / sentences / paragraphs and help yourself.