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[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To me it looks like they know their verbal and mechanical memory is stronger than their numerical memory. (not sure that's how they are called in english)

So they basically transcribed the number into a form their mind assimilates more easily: Words and simple strokes they can maybe rattle off with the tip of their finger, or mentally. + maybe numerical sequence they know well already for a reason or another ( the 789 with an arrow to say "this needs to be read backwards")

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When I have to remember a phone number, I don't remember the numbers themselves, but I remember the "sound" that this phone number makes when it's said out loud, idk if it makes sense 😭

[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 11 points 1 month ago

Luckily due to having to do so mutch math for what i study my brain managed to learn to remembet numbers. Even annoyingly long ones (~30 symbols) if i group them in triplets. How? I have no clue.

Combine that with the more graphical way i think. And you get how i manage to remember the 32 symbols passwords my password manager spits out after i have to put them two times by hand.

[–] RogueBanana@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Would be a cool little trick if that works. It does sound easier.

[–] hitwright@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Sometimes it helps just to sing the number. Just like this emergency one

0118 999 881 999 119 725...3

[–] Spot@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

I'll just send an email.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Or 1300 36 70 70 roof roof

Be hard to find anyone in Australia over the age of 30 that doesn't know that damn seal

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One eight seven seven Kars four kids

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I think you mean 867-5309.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This kindles my interest.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

math flying around their head set to classical music

[–] Zier@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure this one was playing heavy metal.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

I’m pretty sure it was the chase song from Benny Hill.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

August Rush ass scene

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If anyone wants a real answer why this looks like this: it's likely undiagnosed schizophrenia.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God i wish I was this stupid and happy.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gene Ray was constantly angry and racist. He's also dead now

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like we should establish a septic tank and public toilet on his grave site.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I tried finding hints in his writings as to where he might be buried, if at all. I think I found a big hint..

If the United States buries 80,000 tons of nuclear waste inside Mother Earth, for our children to inherit, then Americans will be the most evil bastards to ever inhabit a planet. A proper burial spot for nuclear waste is under academic institutions and in Washington D.C.

[–] threeonefour@piefed.ca 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This reminds me of synaesthesia, where two concepts are involuntarily linked within someone's brain. Typically it's something like numbers and colours, or letters and colours, but could also be something like words and taste. It's rare, but people who have it would probably remember a phone number based on its "colour" and think that's how everyone does it.

[–] Monzcarro@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I have synesthesia and I use colour and "feel" to remember things. I'm good with phone numbers and dates. I also use mapping a lot, where I see a picture in my head with things placed along in. For example, the year is on a ribbon of varying thickness and colours.

I did think this was how everyone did it. I was 20 before I realised synesthesia was even a thing because it seems so natural to me.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I find it a lot easier to just be profoundly autistic. I see the number once and then I remember it for the rest of my life whether I want to or not

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what kinda fuckass discount autism did i get then?

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Dw, I'm starting a bootleg polio vaccine operation once secretary brainworm bans them. I can send you some and we can get that discount autism upgraded to super premium autism plus. You'll be overwhelmed in the presence of more than 2 people, screeching loudly at bright lights, and be a savant with numbers in no time.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I understand this until the overlapping part in step 4, then it just gets more derranged

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you recite this three times you'll summon a demon.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I think The Laundry was called as soon as it was written down.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This doesn’t seem that bad, just some mnemonics.

  • 9-8-7, numbers in order, reversed.
  • 2-4-9, kinda looks like the word “she” (I guess)
  • 3113 looks like the name “Elle”

The rest is just describing extra steps of encoding and decoding the number in their mind.

I’ll admit I’m a bit lost on the color-coded step. And the way they changed the strokes in 2-4-9 on different steps. But mnemonics are often “it works for me even if it doesn’t make full logical sense” so not gonna criticize.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm almost certain the "she" part is referring to "elle" which means "she" in french

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe, but step 4 seems to tie the two together somehow.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It never even occurred to me that people might have an advanced mnemonic toolbox for things like this. I know the basics, but this is just a new level.

The only oddball thing I've used, involuntarily and entirely by accident, is "the method of loci". It's fantastic... when it works.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"the method of loci". It's fantastic... when it works.

*cries in aphantasia*

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just ask for them to repeat it

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

I just start adding a new contact and hand them the phone

[–] NessD@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I do the same :D

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 3 points 1 month ago

I genuinely have no idea what this person is talking about. They wrote down the number and then transformed to remember the number that they already wrote down?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

if they rattled it off too fast i've already missed most of it and i'll tell them to hold the fuck up so i can write it down as they say it, or i'm not even going to attempt to remember the number.