Finished Plate 2A

whew, took me another 12:30, but i got through them all (31 items)

total 23:30 with a 30 minute break between.

Now lets see how much time it takes to run back through....

Tried to run back through, but decided, fuck it, lets just test and see how i do.

confusing lesser and inferior. both involve making the picture smaller. I think from now on, ill involve a "less than" sign in words with "lesser"

making lots of spelling mistakes. i hope they dont take off for these in medical school

I missed two. One I remembered halfway through the test - I've got to remember to skip these, because the pictures are there... they just take a little bit to come back to me. 

The pictures are a little slow to recall. I need to be able to pull them back up more quickly than I burned them. Also, one of the two I missed, I missed because I forgot half of the picture (infraorbital), which was hanging above the rest of the image (foramen of maxilla). I should not be in so much of a rush that I move on to the next item without waiting for the whole picture to be clear. Also, perhaps I should work on making the images "tighter", or less spread out, so that parts of it do not get lost. 

A weird thing is that I am actually picking up some comprehension ideas, despite straight memorization with memory palaces. I figured out which bones are which, and then the rest is the linguistics. Linguistics will be a huge help here.

I am still wondering if it is better to use a memory palace or actually integrate the pictures onto a mental skull. I will try the second approach with the next plate and see if I get any faster / better. 

Second Attempt

Did 11 of 31 items on plate 2 in 11 minutes.

Averages to 1 minute per item, but i am definitely slowing down.

One thing that really got me is that I am so busy making up images for the item, that i forget to also imagine the part of the face that it corresponds to.

So i get a list of names, but no correlation to where those names are located. 

If i make sure and put both parts of the information - the name and the location - in at once, then it should go a little bit quicker.

However, getting saturated is a huge problem. If I was getting tired after 11 plates.... I need to get my stamina up.

sometimes the pictures are getting crazy complicated.

For that wierd little hole in the cheek bone, zygomaticofacial foramen of the zygomatic bone, the picture is soooo complicated.

My shorthand for zygomatic is a little multicell zygote.

so there is a chick getting blasted with zygotes in the face (facial)

and grabbing grass and leaves off the ground and eating them (foraging = foramen)
and she is kneeling down in front of a giant zygote (of the zygomatic)

with a bone coming out of her....  (bone)
This whole picture is happening inside of a pore (represented by my fireplace)

in a huge cheek, that takes up the whole living room wall.

total time to memorize was probably around 2 minutes - which seems far too long if I have to get through the 93 plates (!), most of which have multiple views!

If we estimate about 30-35 items per plate, thats about 110 hours for the head and neck alone. And thats for one class - Anatomy. 

I have to improve my times.

First Attempt

Began process of memorizing plates from Netters. The first took approximately 1:30, but I missed 4 or 5 out of 30. 

I took an additional 20 minutes to review and was able to get 29 out of 30. 

I used a process of superimposing the pneumonic images on the anatomical image. I did not use a memory palace. 

Next time, I am going to try to memorize a plate with a memory palace, my old house, since that is my only current working memory palace. I will still superimpose an image on the anatomical image, but I think the memory palace will be better because it will allow me to zoom in on the images, and store them in some kind of logical order, so that I can quickly see nearby structures as part of the same continuous palace.