Have you been looking for Memory Palace examples?

You’re in the right place.

I’ve used Memory Palaces to pass exams, master foreign languages to the point of lecturing in German while living abroad.

And my TEDx Talk wasn’t just delivered from memory.

Thanks to the power of the Memory Palace when it comes to presenting well, it has garnered millions of views.

Across all of these experiences, I’ve developed and tested over three hundred Memory Palaces for different learning goals.

Everything from academic outcomes to speaking from the stage and even applying them to the writing of novels.

On this page, I’ll give you 5 powerful Mind Palace examples you can use to improve your memory training practice.

Ready?

Let’s dive in.

Before we get started with the examples, let’s properly define the Memory Palace technique.

This step is important so that we’re on the same page.

Definitions are important because sometimes people use different words for the same technique.

For example, the Memory Palace technique is sometimes called the Method of Loci. Other people call it the Roman Room technique.

No matter what you call, the technique is based on layering associations along a journey based on locations you remember.

That’s the key.

You’re not memorizing locations for use as Memory Palace. You’re harnessing memory spaces that are already in your memory.

For more details, please refer to my foundational Memory Palace tutorial which goes in-depth on its history and a number of important considerations for getting the most out of the technique.

With these principles in mind, let’s look at our first example.

This kind of Memory Palace involves looking down through the roof on a building, typically your home.

The basic idea is to experience the Memory Palace as if you’re looking down at a floor plan.

To create your first Memory Palace in this style, I suggest you quickly sketch them out.

As you can see, I’ve drawn this Memory Palace by hand:

Drawing each Memory Palaces is important because it trains your brain to think about the journey through the building you’re assigning.

A bit of preparation in the beginning will ensure that you can use the Memory Palace much faster once you’re ready to use it to memorize anything, including vocabulary, or an entire speech.

I’m not the only one who draws Memory Palaces.

My friend and fellow memory expert Jonathan Levi did just that after I showed him how to do so for his TEDx presentation:

In sum, the process is simple:

If you’re stuck on what locations to use, How to Find Memory Palaces will help.

If you need help with creating the imagery, these elaborative encoding exercises should be useful to you.

The cool thing about that TEDx picture above is that I’ve already used the process I just described to turn the theatre into a Mind Palace. And it works great!

In this kind of Memory Palace, you use an entire university campus.

I found this kind very useful when studying for my PhD at York in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

For your benefit, I’ve used the campus map to craft this detailed video tutorial for you of this kind of Memory Palace and its many uses:

In this case, you can use the Memory Palace from the top-down view.

Or you can imagine watching yourself walking from station to station. It’s entirely up to you.

Another option is to use the next kind of Memory Palace.

When using a first person approach, here’s what happens:

You imagine yourself in the Memory Palace, literally seeing the journey as if through your own eyes.

Or, you can pretend to be a character in a video game or movie and see through the eyes of that character.

For example, using an outdoor Memory Palace, I once imagined being this Giordano Bruno statue and navigated parts of Rome that I had previously developed into a small set of Memory Palaces.

Personally, I find this approach draining. But it definitely works.

Virtual or Imaginary Memory Palaces are not based on real locations.

They are purely imagined or based on video game locations.

This approach is not for everyone however.

I personally find them difficult for my projects, one reason I prefer standard Memory Palace for activities like language learning.

But if you want to give imaginary Memory Palaces a try, I suggest listening to memory competitor Idriz Zogaj for some wisdom on the practice that you might find useful.

In the meantime, I’ve recorded all my best suggestions for the virtual Memory Palace approach in this detailed video tutorial:

This kind of Memory Palace combines a number or mnemonic systems.

At its core, you still take a location you know well and mentally assign specific pieces of information.

But unlike other approaches, you develop well-formed Memory Palaces that do not lead you into dead ends or waste time and mental energy by crossing your own path.

An illustrator helped me visualize my TEDx Talk Memory Palace with this picture so you can see how direct and unfettered a Magnetic Memory Palace is:

What additionally sets the Magnetic Memory Palace apart are additional tools that I teach. Such as:

With these additional techniques, everything gets much easier. That’s because my approach also helps make the technique more fun.

It feels like a game as you usher any information you want to know into long-term memory quickly.

I suggest that you avoid starting with just one location.

Rather, use the alphabet to help assign a variety of locations you can link with information easily.

I call this approach the “Memory Palace Network.”

To give you a quick example, I have a few ‘A’ Memory Palaces. Two of them are based on the homes of friends I know named Adam (once from elementary school, another from university).

I often use my friend Brad’s house for words that start with the letter ‘B.’

And when memorizing a poem recently that starts with the letter ‘W,’ I used a Woolworths supermarket.

This approach is an advanced form of linking, a technique well worth learning as you develop your mnemonic skills.

And if you’d like more help, feel free to grab my free memory improvement course:

It gives you four clear video lessons and three Memory Palace worksheets to fill out.

For now, these five Memory Palace examples aren’t just fantastic notions.

They’re tried and true starting points you can model.

And if you feel like you don’t have enough locations, check out this full tutorial I have, a giant list of Memory Palace ideas that will get you started.

Adapt them for yourself, expand on the core principles and you’ll not only improve your recall.

You’ll change the way you think, learn and interact with information.

An incredible journey awaits.

Enjoy and please let me know how it goes. You next breakthrough is just one well-formed Memory Palace away!

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