Memory triggers are cues that trigger specific memories that appear in your mind. Two types of triggers: superior and inferior. Two types of connections: equal and unequal
Memory triggers are often made without conscious effort. Example: You are studying for a test that will have specific questions on it. The questions on this test will likely have memory triggers that trigger the studied information. - [Superior trigger questions + Inferior trigger studied information] If the questions were non specific questions, they would have triggered either no memories or one or more random studied material. - [Inferior trigger questions + Inferior trigger studied information] Interestingly, memory triggers can be made with conscious effort. Example: You are walking in a park and in your viewing window, there are five trees. If you count the trees from one to five and then you make a mental image of those five trees, you would make a memory trigger for that viewing window that tells you that there are five trees. Notice that when looking at the trees at a different viewing window (angle), there may be no triggered memory because the memory trigger was made for only one specific viewing window. - [Superior trigger viewing window + Inferior trigger trees or Superior trigger trees] Many memory triggers with trees = Inferior memory trigger for trees Not many memory triggers with trees = Superior memory trigger for trees You can make memory trigger connections which are two or more memory triggers that trigger each other. In a memory trigger connection, there are two types of triggers: superior memory triggers and inferior memory triggers. Superior triggers have a higher chance of triggering other triggers in the connection than inferior triggers. Sometimes an inferior trigger never triggers another memory trigger because the chance of triggering other memory triggers for the superior trigger is too high. A memory trigger connection is "equal" when all triggers are superior triggers and "unequal" when some triggers are inferior triggers. Example of memory trigger connection: You are playing a musical piece with your instrument and you have a test soon. You focus on each line of the musical piece, make a mental image of each line, and make a mental image of one of the pieces of information you need to study for the test for each line. If both a musical line and a piece of information that are connected trigger each other the same way, that is an equal connection. - [Superior trigger musical line + Superior trigger piece of information] If a musical line and a piece of information that are connected trigger each other in a different way (one superior memory trigger and one inferior memory trigger), that is an unequal connection. - [Superior trigger or Inferior trigger musical line + Inferior trigger or Superior trigger piece of information]
Definitions: 1st mental image: The mental image of the object/mental image that you want to trigger memories. 2nd mental image: A triggered memory. 3rd mental image: A triggered memory. A way to put memory triggers on objects/mental images: 1. If you want to put a memory trigger on an object, you will need to first turn it into a mental image. You can do this by looking at the object and then thinking about your viewing window as a mental image (like a photo). If you want to put a memory trigger on a mental image (any imaginary things), you skip this step. 2. Focus on the first mental image/first mental image of the object and then think about a second mental image. The second mental image is the triggered memory. Memory trigger results: Object: When you look at the object or think about the first mental image of the object, it will trigger the second mental image. Mental image: When you think about the first mental image, it will trigger the second mental image. If you want a situation to trigger a memory, you will need to make a mental image that acts as a video of that situation. Make sure to put all the important identifying features of that situation in the video. Ways of putting memory triggers combinations: - (1) Focus on the first mental image while thinking about the second mental image = [Superior trigger first mental image + Inferior trigger second mental image] - (2) Focus on the second mental image while thinking about the first mental image = [Superior trigger second mental image + Inferior trigger first mental image] - (1) + (2) = [Superior trigger first mental image + Superior trigger second mental image] Make two memory triggers for an object or a mental image: 1. Make one second mental image for the object/mental image. 2. Imagine a line extending to the left or right of the second mental image. 3. Imagine a third mental image at the end of that line. 4. Connect the second mental image, the line, and the third mental image together in your mind. = [Superior memory trigger third mental image + Superior memory trigger second mental image + Inferior trigger first mental image] The newly added third mental image will be the same type (superior or inferior trigger) as the second mental image. Memory trigger unequal connection example list: - Important task reminders - Description of items - Function of parts of an object Memory trigger equal connection example list: - Connected items (items associated with each other) - Connected memories - Topic points in a conversation You can make triple memory trigger connections and higher if you have enough objects/mental images and it makes sense to make one.
Memory Trigger Observation #1: You do not need to repeatedly use a method of putting a memory trigger on something (Version 1) Social memory trigger combinations (Version 2) Social memory trigger combinations Time memory trigger combinations Important memory triggers Symbol memory triggers Personal memory triggers Feeling memory triggers Memory galleries Mind spaces Social runes Mental image memory triggers for social ideas Mental image transitions List of the social ideas I have posted
Credit for giving an example that made me come up with memory trigger connections: @joellojello2
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