Pegging Memory System A unique method for remembering numbered items
A peg memory system is useful for memorising a list of numbered items. The peg is a hook on which we hang the number. You can use any kind of peg system as long as it is easy to remember and used consistently.
This is a rhyming peg system:
- 1 (one) = sun;
- 2 (two) = glue;
- 3(three) = knee;
- 4 (four) = door;
- 5 (five) = hive;
- 6 (six) = sticks;
- 7 (seven) = heaven;
- 8 (eight) = gate;
- 9 (nine) = vine;
- 0 (nought) = wart.
Let's say we want to remember a phone number: 302187. In the above system, this is "knee", "wart", "glue", "sun", "gate", and "heaven".
All you need to do now is make up a crazy, silly and exaggerated story.
For example: "I drew the number on my knee all around a wart. Next I put some glue on it to keep it in place. Suddenly the sun came out, so I went out the gate and found myself in heaven."
It seems like hard work to begin with ('hey, why don't I just write it down?').
But, if you get good at this, you too could end up like Derren Brown, hosting your own shows as this is exactly the system he uses to remember entire directories. OK, maybe not!
Let's take this further.
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