Page 88 - Use Your Memory

7 The Number-Rhyme System

You will find the Number-Rhyme System especially easy to learn,
since it is identical in principle to the Number-Shape System.
Also, like the Number-Shape System, it can be used for remem-
bering short lists of items that you need to store in your memory
for only a brief time. In this system, as before, you use the numbers
from 1 to 10, and instead of having Key Memory Images that
resemble the shape of the number, you devise Key Memory
Images represented by a word that rhymes with the sound of the
number. For example, the Key Rhyming Memory Image Word
that most people use for the number 5 is hive, the images that they
use ranging from one enormous hive from which emanates a
sky-covering swarm of monster bees to a microscopic hive with
only one tiny bee.
As with the Link System and the Number-Shape System, it is
essential to apply the Basic Memory Principles, making each
image as imaginative, colourful and sensual as you possibly can.
As in the previous chapter, you will find listed the numbers from 1
to 10, with a blank beside each for you to pencil in the Rhyming
Image Word that you think will produce the best image for each
number. Make sure that the images will be good memory hooks
for you.
By now your associative and creative thinking abilities will have
improved your mental capacity, so give yourself not ten minutes as
before but six minutes to fill in your initial Key Image Words.
Number Number-Rhyme Image Word
1

55