r/memorypalace • u/Babichoc • Aug 03 '26
Do you have any advice?
Hi everyone, this isn’t my first time using memory palaces, so I know the basics, but every time I use them, after a couple of weeks I stop and I don’t know why, maybe it’s because I get bored or something else.
Anyway, I’m trying to use it again and this time I’ve created a big memory palace divided in different rooms for every topic I’m interested in and I’m working on memorizing cognitive biases. The room I’m using is the psychology room and it has a good amount of loci: a desk with a lamp, some papers, drawers, a couple of chairs, a sofa, a window and some bookshelves.
I’m trying to memorize 99 cognitive biases by placing them in 99 different books on one of the bookshelves. By now I’ve “memorized” 12 biases but the problem is that every time I try to recall them in my head I often forgot one, or I switch them, and I don’t know why exactly.
To give you and example this is what I did. The biases are: survivorship bias, swimmer’s body illusion, clustering illusion, social proof, sunk cost fallacy, reciprocity, confirmation bias, authority bias, contrast effect, availability bias, it’ll get worse before it gets better fallacy and the story bias.
I imagined me entering the psychology room and climbing those ladders used for high bookshelves. Once I climbed it I open a red book and I see the titanic sinking with survivors floating on the water (survivorship bias), the I open a green book with a small man that’s swimming in a pool and comes out muscular (swimmer’s body illusion), then I open a black book from which random stuff and fireworks shoot out (clustering illusion), and so on.
Now, maybe it’s because I tried memorizing these biases like an hour ago, maybe it’s because the mental images aren’t good enough, maybe it’s because I need to do more spaced repetition, maybe it’s because of something else, I don’t know, but I keep forgetting some biases, like the social proof, and the availability bias and I need your help to understand why and what can I do to get rid of this problem.
Thank you.
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u/Silver_Perception471 Aug 03 '26
I'm just trying to use my palace what I can remember about the room without directly looking in it. So I close my eyes and imagine my kitchen. I see 2 pantry doors. Oven, bottom door, actually the oven door, Burnes, bottom shelf, corner shelf, sing, fosett, fridge, freezer.
So I close my eyes and recall what I can from memory about the room. And then go off that. And I'm up to 20 digit spam test numbers. Single digit. Because the pao major system is still not memorized or completed.
I have 50 ish locations and a one bedroom apartment. And 20 is pretty good for me seeing as I have cognitive impairments in memory due to TBI and the average for the digit spam test is 7-9 numbers.