Several ways to improve your memory.
Our brain performs many processes are like a big super-powerful computer. And every computer has a memory card or built-in memory, reports the Chronicle.info with reference to vikna.tv.
Our memory is a continuous process of storing information, which can be divided into three stages: storage and reproduction.
Even more similar to those processes that are in a computer.
- Coding — everything that we saw, heard or felt using our perception channels, the brain processes, transforms into sound, image and stores in short-term memory.
- Storage — at this stage, the information that the brain encoded earlier is recorded. The received data moves from short-term memory to long-term memory.
- Reproduction is already memories. The more often we use this or that information, the more reliably it is stored in our memory and reproduced faster.
We will tell you several ways to improve your memory.
The Aivazovsky method
The first and, perhaps, the most popular is the Aivazovsky method.
Ivan Aivazovsky is a famous Russian and Ukrainian artist of the 19th century. Known for its incredible beauty of reproduction of seascapes. However, how did he do it?
To accurately convey the beauty of the sea wave, the artist sat for hours on the coast and watched the water.
Therefore, Aivazovsky's method is that you need to carefully look at the object for five minutes.
And then, as accurately as possible, restore it in your imagination. Color, shape, details, etc. It can be either a living or an inanimate object. Feel free to draw these objects if it's easier.
Schulte's charts
German psychotherapist Walter Schulte developed a technique for improving memory, which was later called Schulte tables.
Classes with such tables are well suited for visual people.
The table has five columns and five rows and is a kind of square.
Inside are numbers from 1 to 25 in random order. You need to memorize them within five minutes and reproduce them accurately.
This method is also used for the speed reading technique, since it is important not only to reproduce the numbers correctly, but also to do it as soon as possible.
Learning by heart
Our memory is like muscles — the more we pump them, the stronger and more elastic they become. To improve your memory, you need to learn poetry, texts or a foreign language.
A foreign language will definitely come in handy. Even if you know English well, start learning, for example, French. It is important that it be something new that your brain does not know. Then it will work, and the memory will be strained to the fullest.
Various little things, for example, car numbers, are great help to train memory. There are only eight characters, but for some reason we can't remember them after five minutes.
Start with the car numbers of family and friends, and then passing cars. Maybe you'll need it someday.
Also try not to throw the check out of the supermarket, but look at it and call names from the list an hour later. Or remember all the characters in a series or book, or rather, name the actor (actress) and his (her) role.
Exercise and memory
Not only the brain, but also the muscles should work. This is very important, because during exercise the brain is saturated with oxygen.
Any physical activity contributes to the creation of neural connections, improves vascular tone and reduces stress. Regular exercise between the ages of 30 and 50 will help prevent the development of dementia later in life.
And it is also very important not to forget about sleep. Our brains need rest, so we need at least eight hours of sleep a night.