Subjective: Memory palace images/locus upper limit

[abunickabhi]

How many images can you store maximum in a locus before it starts to stress your memo system?

Make all the assumptions you need to give a ballpark answer (which is subjective)

 

[Mike Hughey]

Hmm. I suspect I'm really inefficient with multiBLD because of how I do it. For various reasons, I decided to do all corners of a cube at one locus, then all edges of a cube at the next locus. So I store an entire 3x3x3 in 2 loci. I have 9 loci in a room, but don't use the last one for multi, so I can store 4 cubes in a room.

I guess that's a little unfair because I usually put flipped edges or twisted corners on the ceiling of the locus, hanging over the main set of images. So maybe you could consider those extra loci, depending on your point of view.

But anyway that can actually lead to 8 images at a single locus for edges, in the worst possible case, although I doubt I've ever had worse than 7.

It certainly doesn't feel stressed to me for multi at 4 images per locus. 5 maybe starts to feel strained. But it is nice that 3 images can approximate person-action-object (even though I don't really do PAO, I am sometimes kind of close with it), and so those tend to be easier to remember.

So I decided on 3 for the poll, figuring that's probably more like what most people would consider not yet stressed.

 

[tseitsei]

Hmm. I suspect I'm really inefficient with multiBLD because of how I do it. For various reasons, I decided to do all corners of a cube at one locus, then all edges of a cube at the next locus. So I store an entire 3x3x3 in 2 loci. I have 9 loci in a room, but don't use the last one for multi, so I can store 4 cubes in a room.

I guess that's a little unfair because I usually put flipped edges or twisted corners on the ceiling of the locus, hanging over the main set of images. So maybe you could consider those extra loci, depending on your point of view.

But anyway that can actually lead to 8 images at a single locus for edges, in the worst possible case, although I doubt I've ever had worse than 7.

It certainly doesn't feel stressed to me for multi at 4 images per locus. 5 maybe starts to feel strained. But it is nice that 3 images can approximate person-action-object (even though I don't really do PAO, I am sometimes kind of close with it), and so those tend to be easier to remember.

So I decided on 3 for the poll, figuring that's probably more like what most people would consider not yet stressed.

This is exactly what I used to do! 4 cubes per rooms, 2 locis per cube.

But I wouldn't consider it to be even nearly that many images. Since one image has (at least for me) several letter pairs.

For example you could have a memo of BL TR SI and that could be BLack TRump SInging. Obviously a one single Image but 3 letter pairs. You can even add 4th letter pairs if needed.

So that would result on 2 images per location. Well corners can sometimes be done with one.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Ah I see - my mistake. Okay, then I probably never exceed 4 and rarely ever exceed 3, and 2 images is comfortable and hence not stressed. Vote changed to 2.

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

I have no idea how I would answer this, honestly. I use one room per cube, and I don't use loci at all. My memo system has (d?)evolved to being conversations held in the respective room, mostly between two people, sometimes more, depending on what fits the memo. I also don't have a system for where corner memo starts and where edge memo ends, I just know. During memorization, I always feel like my way of memorizing is extremely prone to recall errors, but my past attempts have shown it to work quite well, somehow. Maybe I'll have to try visualizing objects in loci sometime, to see how well I do with that.