Image as Memory

By attaching an immediate association with what is meant to be memorized and the image with which one would make the connection, one can use their strongest, most heavily-relied upon sense to do so. We humans are very visual beings. Take away our ability to see and we find that we simply cannot function on any normal level at ordinary tasks. I can see the power in using and developing a specific image in, say visualizing a one armed boy, to represent something in relation to it, such as the entire novel of "Johnny Tremaine," etc.

When we use our imagination to create a visceral idea in our heads, a specific picture, we can associate a plethora of events and significant things worth memorizing with the smaller, shorter and less involved idea of an image, rather than the actual thing to be memorized. As a very visual person (one of those deluded artists) I find this to be a rather effective way to understand and recall information, especially as I have a harder time simply committing strings of words or information to memory.