The Mind Palace
What I am about to talk about is something everyone, with enough patience and motivation, can do. It honestly has multiple uses, and something that, if you start doing, will get addicted too.
I am talking about a mind palace, a place where you can remember anything and everything with visual aid. Mind Palace, or, Method of loci, was made 2000 years ago by the Greeks and later used by the Romans, was a way to remember important information by visual aid in your head. The best way I can describe this is like if you had a experience of going to a concert let’s say, and keep the ticket, the odds are, years down the road, you will look at the ticket and most likely remember the concert. This is not meant to be a tutorial on how to make a mind palace, rather, this is the best way to explain this is real and can be done. What you are about to read may sound like it is out of a book, but I insure you, this is what I go to everyday, when I have problems, when I need to destress, work out problems, make deductions, and when I just want to be by myself. So, join me as I show you my mind palace, or rather, my mind.
Note, I was planning to make a YouTube playlist of music together for what I listen too as I go into the mind palace, but it is all copyrighted. So, the best I can give you is this video, this is the music that plays.
As my eyes close, I feel a rush of water of a stream going from my head to my toe. As the water rushes down, I feel it’s coolness, if is very relaxing, relaxing all of my muscles, and as the stream is rushing down, because of my nose, the water goes by without blocking my airflow. As I open my eyes, I see the water rushing over my face, it feels nice. I see the clear blue sky past the water. This calms me even more because I have always loved the sky. As I get up, I wake up in the field.
I stand up and feel a cool breeze, not enough to make me shiver, but I take joy looking at the field, it calms me down even more as I smell the fragrance of the flowers in the air, and the beautiful clouds moving by, for they are like consistently moving art. I walk down a path, heading to my memory library, as I call it, it being a simple building that fits into the surroundings.
I walk up to it, and as I open the door and step in, the single door turns into two, huge doors, that you would have seen in ancient times, and as I walk in, I feel the comfort of the brown carpet on my bare feet, it relaxes me even more.
To show the basic concept of what the building on the inside looks like, it has this architecture, but much deeper, and a staircase being on the far end that, instead of coming together and being one into two staircases, it’s just to staircases going straight down, also, there are big 2 story bookshelves starting 30 feet from the door, heading all the way to the back of the memory castle, there are no decorations on the wall, and the ceiling is made of glass, bringing in vast amounts of light, and there are no windows at all, the sunroof see through ceiling is more than enough.
As I walk up to the first bookshelf facing me, I see a smart water bottle, this was the first item I put in it years ago, to commemorate when I made the memory castle.
The second item on the shelf is a statue of a girl I like, when I hold it, it sends me to a museum, the walls are decorated with pictures of her and all the different dresses she wears and the emotion in the air is very strong. The museum is one long hallway, and at the end of it is emptiness, until you look over the edge, and see multiple galaxies swirling, black holes trying to swallow them up, and the beautiful rays of nebulas, there, we go on adventures.
What’s nice is, I can lay down on the ground, feel the carpet, breathe, relax, and view the clouds going by. There are many freedoms to having a mind palace. As I turn to my left, there is a door with the label:
As I open the door, it teleports me to the world of Ghost in the Shell, as I walk in, I would jump out of a window and jump the roofs of buildings with freedom!
