Paint By Numbers - A memory technique

Ever noticed that sometimes you struggle with remembering numbers or sequences of numbers even though there is nothing wrong with your memory - is it Dyscalculia?  or simply an inefficient method of recording and retrieving number nodes for long enough to be able to manipulate them in your mind. I do find that I can remember anything visual - I see the colour, the shape and the environment it is in - as the starting point of the recalled memory's details. But somehow numbers seem to slip out very easily like ineffective glue. Thanks to Derren Brown' s book - tricks of the mind - which I read recently, I realized there are other ways you can improve on your memory. In his book he uses a letter based system and converts numbers to words and then to visual objects, however I found that colour does well enough for me, as a visual artist it is very easy to visualize a colour pattern and colour mixing system - or even thereafter convert it to an image made up of the colours.

Here are my colour codes
0 = Transparent (like a gap in the design)
1 = Cream / White
2 = Yellow
3 = Green
4 = Blue
5 = Orange
6 = Red
7 = Pink
8 = Brown / Black
9 = Violet / Purple 

A colour sequence can easily be remembered by imagining the pattern as a design.
  = 2 864 632

For example "12" - is white and yellow - and will bring up an image in your mind of a fried Egg! while the 112 might be a paler yellow (imagining 2 parts whites and one part yellow mixed in paint)


This is just a starting point and various techniques can be added, to cater for more complex patterns, but I have found this has helped me emensly - maybe will help you too.

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Interconnected

Whenever we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir...

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ethereal skies

I can't help take pictures of the sky - sun sunsets, clouds, sunrise, rain, rainbow - there is something that attracts me to its aesthetics.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes...

Meditate Moment

Consider the warm golden glow of sunlight as it falls upon autumn leaves. Let the thought of such unassuming beauty bring peace into your heart.


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In the Beginning

So Plant says to Tree who is next to him "where are we from?"

Tree replies " we grew from this earth, we are made up of the same things as the universe; tiny little codes, that influences and is influenced by all that is around it. These codes create things!" Tree takes a deep breath and continues. "In the beginning there was nothing but one tiny speck of infinite density with no outside. This dot held all the original codes to the universe, and when it exploded one moment, it shattered and spread itself outward and onward."

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Looking for LUCA - the mother of all life
Every living thing on Earth - from humans to bacteria, from bluebells to blue whales - is thought to be descended from one single entity, a sort of primitive cell floating around in the primordial soup three or four billion years ago.

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Tree Philosophy - The Life of Tree

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Nostalgic nasturtiums?
Plants are stupid, everyone knows that. Or are they? Find out about feats of plant memory with New Scientist... I believe that most animals, even quite lowly ones, are able to remember things, but can plants?

Strouhal Number

A simple number called the Strouhal number describes locomotion produced by the flapping of wings. It equals the frequency of flapping multiplied by its amplitude, divided by forward speed. Theory suggests that in most cases peak efficiency is reached when this number lies between 0.2 and 0.4.

'Nature clearly has a rule that if you want to cruise efficiently, you need to operate at this Strouhal number,' says Thomas. 'It's astonishing that you get the same result for a moth and a whale - one's in air, the other's in water, and there's such a colossal difference in size.'

Contribution by Banannah

Prediction of the Prophet Banannah #1

In the future people will worry about a global processing power shortage.
The person who solves this problem will win a prize and a few years later commit suicide in a pale blue shirt after their family leaves them.