PORT500 is an easy method to create your own 500 locations memory palace using your existing 00-99 Persons.
I’ve come up with this idea a few years ago for creating a memory palace to memorise my 00-99 Persons using the Dominic System.
This palace can be used to memorise any kind of data, such as;
numbers, cards, binary, words, lists, passwords, speeches and any other information that you need a memory palace for.
Let’s just dive into how this works.
What is PORT500?
P = Person
O = Objects as RT = Recall Triggers
500 = Total of locations.
Let’s recap;
Person with his own Objects used as the Recall Triggers totalling 500 Locations.
So this is how I come up with the title of it to make it easy to remember.
What is a Recall Trigger?
It’s the object itself on a location that triggers the action of what you had memorised, It’s also a path to follow in your memory journey with no confusion.
When I want to recall the data I had memorised, I have to first visit the location, and on that location I have the object that will Trigger the action/s I had memorised.
Some people call it a locus, pegs, stops, and stations. I call it the Recall Triggers as the object itself on that location triggers the brain to remind you of the action.
How does this PORT500 Memory palace work?
The basic idea is to create a “Sentence” involving the Person that has Four Objects to be used as Recall Triggers in his/her room. Totalling a Five-Stop journey path in each room for each person.
How to structure PORT500 Memory palace.
- You’ll need your existing 100 Persons from 00-99.
- You’ll have an imaginary 100 Rooms for each person.
- You’ll need to come up with 100 sentences belonging to each person.
- You’ll need to come up with Four Objects involving the Person.
Now imagine, there are 100 doors next to each other, each of which has a Face image of the Person starting from 00-99 as Stickers on the face of the doors.
So your first Door would have the image sticker of the Person that represents 00.
Let’s say that this Person as 00 was Olive Oyl.
Now as you open the door, you stand at the door entry, and you see;
Olive Oyl but this time in Full View,
She is Cooking Spinach for Popeye The Sailor.
There you have it.
This gives you Five locations on your first room.
We have a Sentence that represents five recall triggers.
“Olive Oyl is Cooking Spinach for Popeye The Sailor”
Now let’s see what the objects are;
Person | Cooking Pot | Spinach | Popeye | Sailor Anchor
So if you were to memorise 20 digits number for example, you’d use Olive Oyl with the first 4 digits, Cooking Pot with the next 4 digits and so on.
Here is how the first room look like for PORT 00;
Now the next room is PORT 01;
in my case it’s a Person who is a caricature artist Oguz Aral that represents the 01 person.
Here is the Sentence I use;
Oguz Aral is Drawing on Paper the Comic (Avni) who has a Candle on his head.
So I have the Person | A Pencil | Paper | Comic boy | Candle
And here is how my PORT 01 room look like;
For example, 40 = Dominic O’Brien. I see him memorising stuff, so my 40 is;
Dominic is Memorising Numbers on the Stage being filmed.
So I’d have Dominic | Brain | Number-Shape | Writing Board | Film-Camera.
With a little practice it doesn’t take long to memorise it because it makes sense to what he does.
So there you have it, you’d have to repeat this process with each of your existing person from 00-99 totalling 100 rooms with a total of 500 locations.
How about the Background in the rooms?
I personally use a white background in a rectangular outlined room. I see the person and all 4 objects very clearly as a whole. So the path is from left to right, and I don’t zoom in or out, I just see the actions in all 5 locations as a whole.
However, you may use a background environment that may belong to your Person if it’s any easier for you. And just find the images of the objects and place them into the room, either in your mind, or as how I do it with real images/pictures next to each other from left to right, and save it as a whole image.
I would suggest you spend some time to create the actual room with the Person and four objects as seen on my samples, and save each of them as a Jpeg Image, and practice by using your computer or laptop to scroll thru the images. If you save the images as 00 for your first one, and then 01 and so on until 99, your pc will show them in the order of the numbered images.
Position of the data to recall.
The good thing about this palace is that, once you memorise a piece of data, you’ll be able to recall the position of it as well.
One Other Way To Create This Palace.
If you feel that this may be confusing you because you use the same persons for both your palace and for your PA or PAO, then I suggest you create a separate Persons List from 00-99.
Who can those people be?
Friends | Family | Neighbours | Doctors | Teachers | Shopkeepers | Bank Workers | Footballers | Movie Stars | Music Idols | Rich People | Politicians | Presidents | Skilled Workers | Kings & Queens | etc…
Each person is different. Each have different jobs. Each have their own hairstyle, eyebrows and eyes, nose, chin and other facial muscles. Also, each person has their own distinguishing clothing style, shirts, jumpers, trousers, skirts, dresses, shoes and other accessories. So it’s always easy to separate one person from the other. You just need to really get to know that person and have at least one single image of him or her standing.
Extending it 1000 locations – PORT1000.
How about PORT1000 With 1000 Locations using 100 Persons?
If 500 locations are not enough for you, then you can extend this to 1000 locations using your existing 100 Persons.
- Again, use each of your person for each room.
- Use all the Major system (or whatever system you use) objects in each room and make it belong to that Person.
Let’s again start with Olive Oyl.
You’d have the Person’s face on the door as the sticker, and inside the room you’d have 10 objects that are in line next to each other that belongs to that room and the person.
So Olive Oyl (Or whoever your person is that represent 00 for you) would have;
Using the Major System in this case;
00 – Sauce | 01 – Suit | 02 – Sun | 03 – Sumo | 04 – Sari | 05 – Silk | 06 – Sushi | 07 – Sock | 08 – Sofa | 09 – Soap.
So those items would personally belong to Olive Oyl in that room.
in PORT 02,
starting with 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19. So all the object would personally belong to that person in that room.
And so on with the other rooms until 99th person.
You can practice the path by involving the person for each room to memorise the whole room, and so on with all the other rooms.
I personally don’t use 1000 locations, however, it may come handy for you if you have a good enough reason and the time to invest into it.
I use PORT500 with the shaper system from 00-99 to memorise stuff using the palace. So If I was to memorise a 20 digit number in 4 digit chunks, I’d be in the PORT00 which is the room for Olive Oyl, and use my number shapes to memorise the data and involve olive oyl and the rest of her objects for the actions.
I hope the PORT500 will come handy for some of you and will Trigger other ideas to create your own memory palaces.