the timboucher experience

Sounds like a David Lynch scene! They’re talking about using memory pegs to spatially associate loci with items in a list to be memorized:

If you want to remember all these things, just change things in your room in ways that will remind you. You can add an ugly shoe pattern to the walls, have a barking dog on your couch or table, put an elaborate desk against the wall, write the date in neon pink on the frame of a famous painting on the wall, put a fat cow in the doorway, have Grandpa Billy Bob eating sloppy joes on your new white carpet, have a Thanksgiving turkey on the dining room table, have your landlady standing there yelling with a bill in her hand for $20, a broken computer on the floor, and eggs smashed into the door. These are all just ideas - you can use anything you want to memorize.

I think part of the reason memory tricks like this might prove to be highly effective (haven’t yet tried it myself) is because the crazy images you come up with to associate items {semiotics: sign, signifier, signified?} use what we normally think of as the “unconscious” mind simply because it doesn’t function with words. So if you’re using your brain in a holistic way that is interesting to more facets and functions of your brain (as a complex system with running subtasks or subplots), then it seems more likely that you’ll stimulate strong memory connections to be woven (wexed) in there.

This is directly connected to my article, a practical guide to reality rearrangement.

• Unraveling Ariadne’s Thread
• Memory modeling
• Church+State
• Moments of Consciousness
• Notes on “This bird has flown”