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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
"The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci" by Jonathan Spence is an interesting non-fiction account of the science of mnemonics, specifically as practiced by Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary to China.
Very similar to your Game, Ricky.
This also leads to the book, "In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads", by George Johnson, which I alluded to in another thread, about investigations on several fronts about how memories are formed.
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I'll have to find and read those. You know what's funny (to me) ... I didn't realize until I went for biofeedback therapy that not everybody played The Game.
Sort of like ... well, it wasn't until I was almost 30 that I realized that not everybody saw colors the way I did. (Looking at the same "color" I see it one way out of my right eye, another way out of my left, and yet a third way with both eyes open.) That was another "game" I used to play growing up ... making the world change colors .... my mother used to wonder why I would just sit there, staring at "nothing much" and winking and blinking my eyes. I found it highly entertaining to make a red stop sign turn orange, then purple, then red, and back to orange.
But, with me and The Game .... I always kept the memory as real as I could, because I felt safest with things I knew well around me ... I guess. And, I suppose if I had imagined certain things, then other bad things from my imagination (like T-Rex) would also get in there too ... and that would be no good at all.