The Memory Palace : Can You Do It?

A Memory Palace is an imaginary location in your mind where you can store mental images to remember facts, strings of numbers, shopping lists or all kinds of things. It's hugely popular among memory champions.
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The memory palace is a technique to remember facts, numbers or other things, like a shopping list. It has been around since ancient times and is also known as the Method of Loci. Memory Champion Marwin Wallonius used it to remember, in just 30 minutes, the correct order of 5040 binary digits or a complete deck of 52 cards in just 33 seconds. Here is how it works.
Close your eyes and imagine some sort of familiar physical space, like your house, school or office, and then add a mental image of the thing you want to remember. To remember a bunch of things you can use different rooms and visualize how you would walk through that space following the same specific route. As you walk through, place the things you want to remember at specific locations. Ideally, imagining things in a funny or crazy way also helps to remember. Once we have placed all the items that we want to remember our memory palace is complete.
The day we return to our palace and want to remember what's inside it, we have to go back in. We have to concentrate and imagine opening the door and walking our route. Once we pass by the specific location that we used to place our things, the item will pop back into our mind Let's try to remember 7 ingredients to make some pancakes.
You open the door and see a full cup of flour next to some shoes. Strange.
You walk into the bedroom. Inside your bed, sleeps a teaspoonful of baking powder.
In the living room sits a massive egg watching TV.
And on top of the TV is a cup of milk, almost full.
You go to into the kitchen and see 6 teaspoons dancing around a bottle of vegetable oil.
Enough. You leave the house and enter the garden. But it's full of sugar canes and in the middle, a teaspoon dressed like a gardener. What going on?
You turn around to check the bathroom. The only thing left is half a teaspoon and salt.
Now try yourself! Close your eyes and think of a familiar place such as your home. We will now slowly list 7 numbers. As you walk through your space, place each one in a different location. Lets go: 3, 14, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6

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[@quardeeliabrown958]

Tip: you don’t have to picture walking through the palace as that can sometimes be difficult, instead try focusing more on the image of whichever item in the palace you’ve chosen. Then incorporate what you are trying to remember to that particular image.

[@grifinsoulgreep]

ok i remember first two..... guess i had burglar in my palace and he took the rest of those numbers

[@syedibrahimibnsyedali7262]

😂😂

[@creativecorn1673]

Hahahaha

[@Catthepunk]

Oh dear. Have you managed to improve your security?

[@LordNutfork]

Thanks! I am using this method to learn a foreign language. It works, but (for me) it can take 5-10 minutes to construct an effective image for a word or phrase. Another problem I am struggling with is how to keep everything in a single building. For example, to memorize the word for "Nurse" I added a hospital to my memory palace. To memorize "Airplane" I added an airport! My memory palace map is starting to look like Sim City!

[@sprouts]

great!

[@dawncrime3121]

Why dont u imagine a city and place everything in different parts of a city.

[@Irãqi_ii]

Make it like toys

[@smrutims94]

Try making a story connecting each word. So won't need an airport or a hospital.

[@lottierea2469]

you can use more than one place

[@johnnyboy5435]

This is acc insane! I remembered the numbers in the vid with my mind palace this morning and thought nothing of it. I did some work and other random stuff and I’m about to sleep then I’m like hey, why don’t I try enter my palace to see if I still remember the sequence. I got all of them correct and I feel like Sherlock hahaha

[@groupffwriteryoudonnomynam3227]

Congrats

[@johnfurnell6151]

I am honestly stunned with how well this works! Can't wait to try it out more long term!

[@sprouts]

Hi I only comment when I'm drunk or high. Glad you found it useful!

[@buzifalus]

dont get too stunned or the palace will collapse

[@joaoruxa]

@@sprouts hum what Was that his username ? Lmao

[@AnonBanks]

should have called it a MIND Palace with a drawing of sherlock as the thumbnail. this video would go through the roof then!

[@dashyasin]

Anon Banken maybe😊😊

[@sprouts]

wish we had known... another life ;)

[@scarface4520]

how can i use this if i want learn text not just words?

[@aregularfrankiefan8208]

This is incredible. I have tried to learn how to do 'Palace of the mind before' (Loci) but have never managed to do it, but after watching this video I could remember all of the numbers even when revisiting the palace a few minutes later. I'm going to try it for my GCSE English quotes!! Thank you!!

[@amyshakbg1879]

I completely succeeded in memorising those things thanks for such good videos.

[@donkeywarrior4940]

"nothing beats learning by doing" well said 👏

[@tracymiller1149]

Thanks for the fun and informative video about memory palaces. I have hundreds that I use for different purposes. I've used houses, apartments, and dorms I've lived in, schools, parks, neighborhoods, workplaces, and even movies and TV episodes as memory palaces. I used them to memorize Pi to about 5,600 places, and have used them in the Long-Term Memory events of the USA Memory Championship, which I've competed in 4 times, finishing as high as 3rd place in this year's competition.

[@sprouts]

Cool stuff. Maybe we can do a second vdo one day together.

[@Prisa457]

guys, you are awesome.so educative. one of many reasons why I think KZbin should exist. please come with more videos...I wish u huge success...

[@sprouts]

thank you! we will try! glad you like them!

[@dragonwar6331]

3, 14, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6- omg this was so cool! I was just... oh my god! Number three was hanging up next to my paintings, numbers 1 and 4 were cuddling n my futon, number 1 was sitting on my tv, number 5 was lying holding my cat, number 9 was doing its makeup, number 2 was trying to punch a whole in the wall, and number six was reading a book. This was amazing!

[@ryanharrison1472]

my teacher was talking about photographic memory a few days ago. I went and tried this technique and told her I had photographic memory and now she thinks i do lol

[@heroiuraresjustinian4681]

because,in fact you really do...you are using your visual memory to memrize these tings

[@Pheonix8877]

TicTac Clock is Ticking do you know de way tru da mind palace ma’hn

[@xilo3012]

Only cameras have photographic memory.

[@rov0t928]

xilo301 lmao

[@bobsmithy3103]

pepehands when you realise you've got aphantasia

[@aarthi4596]

I imagined mine like my house. 3 was inside a shoe on the shoe rack in the entrance, 14 was sprawled on my sofa, 1 was in place of the fridge, 5 was on the toilet, 9 was a painting in the dining room and 2 and 6 were sat side by side in the study. I remembered all of them in order :D

[@devonplaza8054]

Woah that was crazy! I didnt think it would work but I have to try with more numbers to see if it really works but the little experiment with the 7 numbers worked great for me!

[@Nothing_serious]

Goddamit Watson don't go revealing the secrets!

[@heroiuraresjustinian4681]

bloody hell not goddamnit....where are your manners?

[@Arkeuworks]

Well, I'm clever.

[@pedrorafaelsantos4284]

Everyone talking about Sherlock Holmes for this, yet CBS's "The Mentalist" explored this concept back in 08'. I don't know if I feel old or blessed for knowing about this for about 11 years now.

[@ats2652]

Same here. Jane was always talking about his memory palace

[@bendaonfire0078]

I watched the mentalist but well I forgot he said that oof

[@tracymiller1149]

The World Memory Championships started in the early 1990s, and those contestants were using memory palaces primarily. Memory Palaces (also called the Method of Loci) were used by the ancient Greeks, and other civilizations, several thousand years ago to memorize speeches and religious texts, and pretty much anything.

[@QuentinBrendemuhl]

Best show ever.

[@divyanshkhurana8625]

lol that's what led me here

[@tessacyclone6329]

i went with my first thought I used my body as the place a miniature of me was walking around my body and I painted in red paint on (3)left knee , (14)left foot(1) right foot(5) right knee (9)hip (2)right armpit and(6) right hand, this really worked, because you can literally see them on yourself. I couldn't decide on a building type location, and so the body is a palace.

[@whit2642]

So many classic horror/mystery stories use this technique!

[@a42lalrinkimi48]

Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed this explanation. It makes me feel like i can actually do this.

[@omare7475]

Instructions not clear, my pancakes came out salty!

[@xilo3012]

Go to your palace kitchen and tell the cooker his job is in danger!

[@sweetiepie7396]

Brilliant

[@haykojan6590]

That awkward moment at the end when you realize your apartment doesn’t have as many rooms as the given numbers to recall 😣

[@emekaobieze6541]

Nice video, as usual. Keep up the good work. Raw numbers are harder to memorize in that way because they are not as easy to visualize as objects.

[@rhondastelck6564]

Amazing! I remembered them all!

[@ccb7061]

I checked my memory palace a day later and I still remembered all of the numbers🙌

[@kf527]

This video presentation reminds me of The Bible Project videos. I love it!

[@lottierea2469]

i open the front door and use 3 fingers to twist the handle. i then see 14 flowers in the plant pot and turn around and put my 1 door key in the door. then i use all 5 fingers to lock the door because the lock is stiff. then i take 9 steps to get to the cut way and at the end of the cutway it takes 2 minuets for the lights to change at the crossing and there are 6 cars stopped at the traffic lights

[@kanishka.b8550]

Lottie Rea that’s a thing bro!😎😎😎 tnx for the tip

[@xilo3012]

Why did you do that? To difference better the things?

[@brickuser2414]

I could remember all! this is a great video! thanks a lot!!!

[@nin0gg]

Anyone here dreamt to be like Patrick Jane? He inspired me to learn these things. Although it's a movie, it certainly have impact on those who watched it.

[@nakebraaze6863]

Thank Goodness that this channel exists

[@ellie7655]

I did this since I was a kid. I didn't know what it's called. Now that I'm a psych major j just found out so many things that I did and not. Psychology is very interesting ☺️😍

[@novlynherwawan9788]

Yes I can... 3,14,1, 5, 9,2,6. Thank you for the video 🙏🏼

[@Nathan-sq4rq]

I memorized the first 70 digits of pi just yesterday and came here to see if there was a better system. Glad I came 👍

[@hensonpedroleon7787]

Marvin the champion me memorizer must have had a really LARGE house

[@domityllebrlw7215]

I got 5/7!! I know some people did better but I'm still pretty happy ☺️

[@riteshshukla8003]

OMG thank you so much I just want a clear explanation of how to do it and you talked about it very well in animation!!

[@sprouts]

Glad it helped!

[@77yorkiegirl]

OK I’m gonna tell you immediately how this worked with me, we all know where we keep our things right? You imagine what you want to remember as “one of your things“ and you put it somewhere special

[@aliasgher2246]

Nice work using first 8 digits of pi for the example.

[@olympialopatin1115]

So simple yet so effective amazing

[@qveenissac]

Damn this actually works. I used my house...remembered the ingredients and numbers when i tried to write them directly after but went to take a call and came back 5 min later to try again. I recalled all the #s right and all the ingredients save for I put 1 t baking soda, 1/4 t salt and it was baking powder, 1/2 t salt. It's best to use a place you are extremely familiar with like your home or work. I used objects in rooms that reminded me of the thing to remember ie 3 hooks in entry, 14 books on shelf, 1 bed in my room, 5 jars on vanity, 9 bottles in shower, 2 pieces furniture in another bedroom, 6 pieces furniture all around living room. They may or may not correspond w/ actual items but I found it helps to be in the vicinity (I do have 3 hooks but I have more than 14 books however it was a large # so I was able to associate it quickly). Pretty cool technique as I wouldn't have been able to remember all the ingredients and numbers otherwise. I could still recite them now! Amazing!

[@cosmonucleus7076]

Humans will be the supercomputers in the not to distant future. I'm blown away by what I didn't know. Companies like this are a true asset to our world and for humanity.

[@Martin-gx2kq]

3,14,1,5,9,2,6. I hope thats right. I made very crazy images in my mind which helped. Memory palace is very good. The more you train it, the faster you can do it. I often have to put numbers from one file to other so this helps me remember it without having to cbeck the number several times. It also trains my brain so it has benefits. I recommend this also for school to remember dates or pieces of information. It takes time to master it tho

[@TheHolyBros]

I've tried it on lasagne recipe and now i can visually remeber all the ingridients perfectly even the next day

[@countbopula7513]

Any tips, exercises, etc. to improve your visualization skills? I feel like this would help me a lot more if I could form pictures in my head better.

[@fatkitty4207]

I walk in and see my pull up bar with 3 rubber things for the arm. I open the door to the living room and on the door is attached the number 14 i walk in and in my fireplace i have 1 small tree on my desk five sheets of papers and on my couch nine springs. On the table there are two laptops and on my cabinet i see the number six hanging. This works

[@jadajama]

I got all the numbers in order except the 9, I forgot the 9. Pretty good for first try, I’ll see if I can remember them tomorrow. My objects were three blind mice,a 14-year-old, a Great big one, a pentagram, dice with nine dots on it, half a dozen eggs, a couple.

[@ThomasHope73]

As someone on the autistic spectrum I would like to point out that it’s much easier to concentrate and take information on board when not being bombarded with other stimuli. So for example the background music in this video competes with the narration, making it much harder to focus on the main message. (I appreciate that this is not everyone’s problem, but I would never play music whilst teaching, it just doesn’t feel like it will conducive to focus.)

[@vishwas425]

SHERLOCK HOLMES!!!

[@jadekristamariedapal6254]

@Bruno Jimmy it's what sherlock is using -- his memory palace

[@danielsd1]

i would take the first letter from every thing and make list: for example Eggs Sugar and Cinamon = CES

[@patriciariedlova5232]

I enter my palace where I am greeted by 3, walk to the kitchen where 14 is dancing (1 is dancing with a 4), in the living room 1 is lying on the sofa watching TV, 5 is rocking in a chair outside on a terrace, 9 is sitting on a toilet, 2 is upstairs playing computer games and 6 is chilling in a bath tub. Great technique 😀

[@parhamdavari]

it really works! amazing.

[@guimiranda08]

I remembered a red three playing the piano, a light green fourteen watching tv, a white one solving a paper, a dark blue five cooking, a pink two watching computer, a purple nine running in the treadmill and an orange six sleeping in my bed, this is amazing, I remembered everything!

[@joymeebaga7824]

3 14 1 5 9 2 6 Whoa! It really works!

[@SantiYounger]

yeah it's awesome those are the digits of Pi btw! worked for me too

[@bendaonfire0078]

Ikr it was my first try I imagined 3 struggling putting shoes because he got 3 pointy things and then 14 just laying down on the sofa 1 as the antena on tv 5 eating 9 cooking 2 hanging 6 after he was in a washing machine

[@UNKNOWN-bp9ww]

I can’t really picture things in my head I can just remember it

[@alihabib1635]

@@UNKNOWN-bp9ww I memorized 60 digits of pi yesterday by only reading a book that involves this concept. it actually works

[@todoku8257]

Bendaonfire007 lmao I just painted the numbers on the walls in each room, nothing so creative, yet it worked :D

[@bobsmithy3103]

As a person with aphantasia, I can't tell if this actually works or if people are just trolling. nvm: Even if you have aphantasia it still works but thinking of abstract things like the number two in a certain room will not work. You need to make a story where there are 3 objects and only three objects there for some specific reason.

[@byersvhs]

im actually going to shut my eyes in the exam if i can't remember a particular thing, and perhaps it might calm my anxiety as i do my exams in a hall. thank you!

[@Rebecca-asdf]

hmmm the only problem i see with this (I am new to this and still researching) is that the video says to use a location you are familiar with so if you use this strategy multiple times won't that confuse u? or are u supposed to find a diff location for everything u want to remember :0

[@AngelVids7]

I got all but the second one. So close! But I think I would have remembered that many numbers without the mind trick. I’m curious how much it would help with longer lists

[@rivkamoshe123]

i had 6 dangling on the ceiling and had to pause because I was laughing too hard

[@mohasku4502]

Thanks😊

[@jaimefong6827]

Using my office building as my palace 3,14,1,5,9,2,6 3 (receptionists), 14 (the security card holding a huge welcome card with 40 written on it) ,1 (Only 1 out of the 10 gates were in use and lighed up in green) ,5,(There were 5 escalator that goes in the same direction - usually there's only 3 ) 9 (9 statue of the company logo dancing in the galley) ,2 (only 2 lifts out of the 10 were working and I imagined our CFO and CEO standing infront of the 2 lift doors ) ,6 ( I walked into the lift and there's only 1 button that says 6th floor) Think I kinda got the hang of this!

[@healthtipzone]

In the subject which I study I have to study nearly 200 definitions.How can I use memory palace technique to study whole definitions?Should I make 200 memory palaces?

[@pepsisepsis8087]

Pharmacy?

[@tempOrary_13]

You are great!

[@megshay7844]

I walk into the mud room and the number 3 is hanging on the door to the house. I open the door and my diss are tugging the number 14 between them. I head into the bathroom. The 1 is sitting on the toilet reading a newspaper and the 5 is hanging with the hand towels. In the study, 9 is sitting watching tv. I head to the kitchen and 2 is dancing to the radio. I head down the hallway and 6 is sitting dejectedly on the stairs.

[@hongpilgye4000]

진짜 기억이 납니다. 감사합니다. 번창하세요.

[@AryanVerma-vs5kc]

.. wow .. i remembered all of .. them . Thanku soooooooo .. much .. i'll use it in learning atomic masses ..

[@sprouts]

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[@cptkeemo4903]

3 laying near the shows, 14 watching competitive sports , 5 cooking, 1 laying in bed , 9 typing on laptop, 2 taking a dump I felt like 6 was there but forgot which task I assigned it.

[@Kenneth-iw8jz]

Amazing 😊✨

[@ethanwagner6418]

3 cushions on my livingroom couch. 14 Styrofoam cups in the cupboard. 1 large pot on the counter. 5 plates in the sink. 9 white t-shirts in my dresser drawer. 6 wooden panels in the workshop.

[@sarahsama5743]

THIS IS AMAZING👊💯 I DO remember the numbers by using this technique when i enter my house i can see 3 washes in bathroom (she has white hands like miky😂)1 search for something in the fridge and 4 near him dancing 5 jumb in bed. 9 loking out of the window and waving to 6 outside and 2 read a mathematic 's book .it's so funny😁

[@joshlangan1659]

Oxygen tank is 3 quarters full. Check the glucometer, and we have 14 test strips, 1 lancet, 5 alcohol prep pads, 9 and gauze pads. Drug box has 2 safety tags instead of one. Check the oxygen main, and the regulator is set to 6L/min. This is part of the routine that I use to check the ambulance before I start my shift.

[@sprouts]

Awesome

[@rihamission487]

I still don't understand why tf you need such a complex technique. Why do I have to imagine so many things? For me, I feel like memorizing something just by saying it out loud a few times is far easier. When you were saying the numbers, I was assigning those numbers to different objects in the house, but then while recalling them, I remembered the objects that I assigned the numbers to, but forgot which number I assigned to them. First time thoughts: Pretty useless and inefficient way to memorize. I have never used this technique before, yet I have always been a topper in my class. But I can't judge something without digging deeper.

[@stefienache12]

i got most of the numbers except the last one!!! yaaay!

[@knw-seeker6836]

do you have any recommendation for learing to draw similar to the drawings in your videos?

[@relyat-ht6kh]

You explained it perfectly and hey it worked first try like expected thanks for the viedeo

[@sprouts]

Glad to hear that!

[@karanbalwani]

Thank you :)

[@sweetiepie7396]

This is great

[@gamertube2600]

I remember everything you told 7 items to make pancakes and the number you told. I think my memory is very good.

[@chrisownz1]

I week later I still remember the order of numbers wow

[@jamestdawson]

I worry I have a "Memory Mobile Home"-a single wide and its not strapped down and there's a storm coming....

[@andrebotha8493]

Many thanks.

[@sprouts]

:)

[@nutcracker2916]

I adapt this by having rhyming objects in my place. For example shoe for two. Front door, Four. ect.

[@aditya_V]

this is cool, only the problem is I forget how my house looks like or where I placed the furnitures

[@samforshaw7964]

This is only possible for single words not theories or doctrines. I am trying to memorise as much as I can for a legal exam. Does anybody have any tips apart from using Anki?

[@simplyallegra]

3 14 1 5 9 2 6 wow i remembered it!! That too in the order! 😁 3 on the sofa ,1 on the TV, 2 on the floor, 9 on the fridge.. lol

[@sprouts]

fantastic

[@thor-dx8sz]

ramula kol Tina113 I forgot the 9 :( I put it in a poster and forgot the poster was there when I walk through the hallway

[@pepsisepsis8087]

I got it too! 3 in the sink, 14 under the stairs, and I stabbed the 1 directly into the couch hahaha

[@goshekhan6319]

It’s 4 days later and I still remember, I am never not doing this to remember things

[@justtryingmybest3479]

I tried so hard put I don't think I can visualize things in my head enough cuz I wouldn't work 😩 and I really thought it was gonna work lol

[@hamideheghbal2433]

You can see the KZbin channel below for more information about memory improvement: kzbin.info/door/IueYaLnR-lO0YedWVT03CA Thanks for subscribing to the channel

[@hitesh9445]

Are you dealing with Aphantasia?

[@m3vm3]

wow that was actually easy, and it worked, but does this mean if i want to remember something complex or other than numbers i have to choose a deferent location ?

[@rabiakaderbayraktar7227]

3 - 14 - 1 - 5 - 9 - 2 - 6 am i right?

[@JeffTheHokie]

I use the major system to make words out of numbers. "I'm tired. I'll punch a llama. Lovebug be my name" = 31415965358979323

[@hamideheghbal2433]

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[@catf3039]

i ener my house, go to my desk and i see 3 markers, then i go to the balcony, where i can see a shirt with the number 2 and pants with the number 6 drying. Then i go into the living room to see my 1 dog and some photos mine with the number 14 and a photo of my whole family (we are 5 in total). then finally i return to my desk and see the fan with a weird nine engraved on it.

[@michellemalakouna4643]

3 coats on hooks by the door, fourteen stairs, one laptop in the office, five pillows on my bed, nine books next to my son's need, two toothbrushes in the bathroom, three towels on the banister.

[@sprouts]

:)

[@anverrama5552]

Nueva suscriptora ❤❤

[@manishsinghh]

Which software is used to make your video??

[@MarvinGenaro]

Can you explain how to deal with doubt, without being arrogant?

[@Mainlythingswithwheels]

so first there was a 3 on the sofa watching TV, then a 6 placed in a mug in the kitchen, a 5 drawn in dust on the car in the garage and a 9 hanging on the washing line..... that's all i can remember.

[@sp5ctral]

Mainly things with wheels Lmfao mine was way crazier and stupider: first there was a 3 stuck in the toilet drowning, then there was a 14 on top of my 14 year old sister reading r/I’m14andthisisdeep then there was a 1 dancing on top of the table to “sOmEbOdY cOmE gEdDuR sHe’S dAnCin LiKE a StrEePEeR” and a 5 throwing money at the 1 then a 9 sleeping on the couch while some cats were eating it for some reason idk then a 2 controlling a too too train and it runs over you then BOOM everything goes black and there’s a black screen with w a s t e d and a 666 in the bottom. (for the number 6).

[@pp8193]

I open the school door and go to the canteen with two other friends. We buy 3 apple juices (one for each). We go up to the library, where both my friends go to find seven books each, totalling 14 books. i go up another flight of stairs and see the best student of our class: ie: the number 1 student. I then go to the classroom, high 5'ing one of my friends, enter my classroom and the teacher gives me my exam paper where I scored 9 out of ten. i go to the next classroom, where a friend offers me a tootsie roll (tootsie has 2 in it) and in the next room I see tekashi 6ixnine throwing a party

[@Malgan90]

Does anyone know a good software for this method?

[@mysteryteacher9]

I got caught up in setting the stage for each number I lost track :)

[@hamideheghbal2433]

You can see the KZbin channel below for more information about memory improvement: kzbin.info/door/IueYaLnR-lO0YedWVT03CA Thanks for subscribing to the channel

[@alejandrorestrepo2142]

How can i use this technique with more complex subjects... As for example Medicine? I've used with simpler, less complex things. Grosseries, phone numbers, etc. It would be usefull to try this with a college textbook? Sorry for my english. Self taught. Feel free to correct me.

[@sprouts]

+Alejandro Restrepo to be honest I’m not sure. Technically you can, but I’m not sure how useful it will be as the chunks of information you attach to each room are pretty small. But why don’t you give it a try and tell us later if it worked.

[@garylundberg7238]

Do a search on Google. There are many people using this as well as many other memory techniques. They have different techniques for different types of info.