Corresponding memory is divided into subconscious memory and conscious memory. Most of the mnemonic theories mentioned in the past are the study of conscious memory. So what is subconscious memory?
Subconscious memory is the memory content recorded by subconscious mind. Just like a video camera, it records our perception all the time and then stores it in our brains. Its memory ability is unmatched by conscious thinking.
The following is my understanding of the relationship between conscious memory and subconscious memory:
1. mutual transformation
Subconscious memory and conscious memory can be transformed into each other. With the passage of time, conscious memory will gradually precipitate into subconscious memory and transform into subconscious memory. Through special ways or means, subconscious memory can be transformed into explicit memory, such as hypnosis and association, and subconscious memory can also surface, such as dreams and inspiration.
Step 2 be interdependent
The sources of subconscious memory are conscious memory and unconscious collection. Conscious memory is our understanding of what we have seen, heard and felt. Unconscious collection is something that our sensory organs secretly record unconsciously. At the same time, subconscious memory provides material for conscious memory, and checks conscious memory by influencing people's attention distribution.
With the above relationship and knowing the ability of subconscious memory, we can think of developing subconscious memory to improve our memory ability. So let's first look at what preferences the subconscious has:
1. Repetition stimulates subconscious memory by repeating it many times, which is also a means of forming long-term memory as we said before.
2. Don't argue whether it is true or false. The subconscious mind is a fool. It has no ability to distinguish between true and false, and all instructions are accepted according to the order. This also produces the way we change our thinking.
3. Like melodic things, many people may have this experience. After hearing others sing or the tape recorder plays a song, they will unconsciously hum it out, or they will unconsciously sing that song when they want to sing. This is the subconscious at work.
I like pictures and colorful things.
5. Have a preference for emotional things.
6. It is easiest to enter the subconscious when you are relaxed.
Knowing the above characteristics, we also know how to develop and use subconscious memory, so as to improve our memory ability.
The key to memory lies in retrieval!
There are many such experiences in our life: when we see a person, "alas! Aren't you someone? Who's that? Hey! " I always feel that the other person's name is on my lips, but I can't remember it at the moment. Later, often inadvertently, a clap thigh "alas! Mao Xiaoping! " If you say that you have forgotten the other person's name at this time, it seems unfair to your memory; By the way, where did you put the key? I can't find it all over my body, and I can't remember it after racking my brains. After trying to open the door, I remembered, "Oh, it's in my office drawer!" " "In fact, this time has not been forgotten. I just can't remember it at the moment!
Freud also recorded a case in The Interpretation of Dreams: A friend asked Freud to interpret dreams. Recently, he always dreamed of a toy, and he didn't know what this metaphor was. After analysis, it was just a toy that my friend used to play with when he was a child, but my friend couldn't remember it in his conscious mind.
The above example is just to show that many times we have not forgotten, there are traces in our subconscious, but we have not extracted (retrieved)!
So what are the retrieval skills?
1. Starting from memory, if I ask you where one of your files is stored on the computer now, a careful friend will definitely answer it right away.
For example: my own computer: disk C system disk, disk D software disk, disk E download data disk, disk F diary disk. If you ask where the ps software exists? You can find it in the folder D-Work Software-Image Editing Software. Computers imitate the work of the human brain, and of course the human brain also has this function. This is the drawer mnemonic method. Classify and label the memory content for easy retrieval. If you keep this in mind, the next time you meet a familiar friend, you can think like this: friend-business friend-someone introduced you-Mao Xiaoping!
2. Subconscious and conscious communication skills, which is also a skill that the author often uses recently, mainly because I am not very familiar with TV stars, and I seem to have watched their TV dramas before. Using this skill to retrieve their names has been tried and tested.
As for why the subconscious mind and consciousness can communicate with each other, it has been introduced in the previous blog post "Subconscious Memory and Conscious Memory", so I won't say much here. Here only talk about skills, not principles, which can be found in the previous blog post.
The first step is to relax. As for how to relax, everyone has their own different experiences. Just find the feeling of relaxation, don't stick to the form. If you don't know much about relaxation, you can check it online, and the articles introduced are overwhelming.
Step two, focus. You can choose whether to close your eyes and concentrate between the eyebrows or directly tell the location of the pineal gland.
The third step is to recall the surrounding environment, that is, to recall anything related to the content to be retrieved. For example, recalling a person's name can recall when you met him, where you met him, who you were with, and so on. Usually in 3-5 seconds, his name will float to consciousness. If students recall what they learned in class, they can start from where in the textbook and the examples given by the teacher.
The method is very simple. As long as you believe it can be realized and practice it a little, you will definitely appreciate its magic.
Associative method —— Associating the memory materials with the things you have experienced, the memory effect is very good.
1) similar association
It is to think of other similar things or phenomena from one thing or phenomenon, and then produce some new ideas. Such as dung beetles and cultivators. There is a man named Yao in Sichuan. He was surprised to find that dung beetles can roll a mass of soil dozens of times heavier than themselves, but they can't pull much lighter soil. He has been driving a tractor for several years, and he thought: Can you learn from dung beetles's method of rolling clods, and put the tractor plow in front of the power of the farming body and the tractor power plow in the back? After experiments, he designed a micro-tiller with single track except the working parts of the front plow, which used driving force instead of traction and broke through the traditional structure.
2) Close to Lenovo
It is a way of thinking that associates things according to their proximity in space or time, and then produces some new ideas. For example, when Su Dongpo was a local official in Hangzhou, many places in the West Lake had been silted up and became the so-called "fertile land" at that time. Su Dongpo visited the West Lake many times and repeatedly considered how to dredge it to reproduce the beauty of the West Lake. One day, he thought, it would be great if the silt dug out of the lake was piled up into a long dike running through the north and south, which not only facilitated the tourists coming and going, but also increased the scenic spots and beautiful scenery of the West Lake. Su Gong's clever plan can kill several birds with one stone.
3) Comparison and association
Refers to the association of things with opposite nature or characteristics. For example, from desert to forest, from light to darkness and so on. Contrastive association embodies the harmonious unity of * * * and personality between things, but things show great differences in a certain * * * feature, thus forming a strong contrast. For example, red and black are caused by the refraction of light, which is * * *; But the former is the result that an object absorbs light of other colors and reflects red light, and the latter is the result that an object absorbs light of all colors, which is personality.
4) Causal correlation
The law of causality refers to the connection between things that are logically causal. When you see the wet ground in the morning, you will think that it may have rained at night. This causal relationship is often used in advertisements to reveal that a commodity can meet a certain consumption need, and to link the concept of commodity with the concept of need to highlight the personality of the product. For example, the advertisement of Phoenix Bicycle is aimed at young consumers. That is, the first survey found that contemporary young people have a strong desire to grow up and pursue a new way of life, and made such an advertising slogan "independence, starting with mastering a Phoenix car." It is effective to help consumers contact the internal relationship between goods and their own needs.