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USE YOUR MEMORY
Item Test
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As a guide for those who might have had a little difficulty with this
exercise, the following are examples of possible ways in which the
ten items to be memorised might have been linked to the
Number-Shape Key Memory Images:
1 For symphony you might have imagined a conductor con-
ducting frantically with a gigantic pole or pencil, knocking over
most of the musicians as he did so, with ensuing pandemonium; or
you might have imagined all the violinists playing their instru-
ments with straws; or again you might have imagined them all with
gigantic penises. Whatever your image, the Basic Memory Prin-
ciples should be applied.
2 Prayer is an abstract word. It is often mistakenly assumed
that abstract words are hard to memorise. Using proper memory
techniques, you will find that this is not the case, as you may have
already discovered. All you have to do is to 'image' the abstract in
concrete form. You might have imagined your swan or duck or
goose with its wings upheld like hands in prayer; or filled an
imaginary church with imaginary swans, geese or ducks being led
in a prayer service by a minister who was also a bird.
3 Easy!
4 You might have imagined your gigantic volcano within the
ocean, seeing it erupting red and furiously beneath your yacht, the
steam and hissing created by the volcano actually heaving your
yacht right off the water; or you might have had your volcano
miniaturised and placed on a chair on which you were about to sit
(you would certainly feel it); or imagined a mountainous table actu-
ally blocking the power of the volcano.