How memory operates
Why we forget
Observation and memory
Using mnemonics to link together memories
Mnemonics to master a foreign language
Mnemonics to remember numbers - The number/rhyme system
Mnemonics to remember your dreams
Advanced number mnemonics - Pegging
Mnemonics for quotations
Mnemonics to remember abstract symbols and letters
The Roman Room or journey system
Mnemonics to remember names and faces
Mnemonics for rememberring appointments - The Mental Diary
How to combine the systems - The Mental Database

Mnemonics and memory improvement.
You already have an excellent memory. You just don't know how to use it!

BUILD YOUR MEMORY - The mnemonics resource that unleashes the incredible hidden potential of YOUR memory!

Many people claim that they possess a poor memory. Indeed you may even be one of those people yourself. Well whether you are or not, the simple fact of the matter is that the vast majority of the population have perfectly good memories. The problem is that they just don’t know how to use them properly. This is where mnemonics can help.

What I have attempted to accomplish with this mnemonics website, is to outline in simple terms, a variety of memory improvement techniques, that with a bit of practice and just a little time, will allow the you to express the full potential of your latent memory capabilities. These menmonic techniques I might add, have been around in one form or another for quite a number of centuries. But until relatively recent times, they had only been used extensively by a select number of magicians and showman.

What are mnemonics?

In simple terms, mnemonics are a group of memory systems and techniques that together allow the quick and easy assimilation of facts, figures, names, faces and information of all kinds. Mnemonics are therefore a group of methods for improving memory.

Facts, figures, names, faces and events, all can be learned and recalled far easier by using mnemonics, than by using the conventional methods of rote learning by repetition.

Mnemonics use the imagination in conjunction with all of the individual senses (sight, sound, touch and smell), in order to transform a dull, dry piece of text into a firm and vibrant memory that is not just easy to remember, but difficult to forget!
Mnemonics gain their power by making use of the way that our minds absorb information. For memories to be formed the following events must occur:

1. Observation. For an event to be committed to memory, it must first be observed. This might seem self-evident to you, but you must understand that seeing is entirely different from observing. This is discussed in more detail in section three of the site ‘Observation and Memory.’
   
2. Association - The core of mnemonics. All memory is based upon association. To remember one piece of information, we invariably associate it with another already committed memory. This is usually done without our conscious awareness. Mnemonics can be used extremely effectively to creat memory assciations that are not immediately obvious and therefore to aid in memory. This is discussed further in section four of the site How to link memories using mnemonics.
   
3. Visualisation - The key to mnemonics. Strong memories are memories that are visual in nature. A quotation that you read is not as easily recalled as an event that you witness. Text is dry, but images are vibrant.
   Mnemonics gain much of there strength from transforming the dull and mundane, into the visual and thus the memorable.

I myself firmly believe that the mnemonics and memory improvement systems that are outlined in this site, are surprisingly straight-forward, and should not take you more than a relatively short period of time to fully master.

Enjoy the site!
Mark S D'Arcy

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