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Remembering Telephone Numbers
Isn't it annoying that whenever someone wants to give you their phone number you find you haven't a pen and neither has anyone else? Then there are times when you jot it down on a scrap of paper and lose the paper. Times like that won't be a problem if you master the memory techniques contained in this book. It's still a good idea to put telephone numbers in your personal directory as soon as you can, though. The memory tricks won't guarantee that the numbers remain recallable forever.
Again, use the major image vocabulary given on pages 8098, the number rhyme system, or the number shape system. Here is an example. Suppose you have to remember a friend's telephone number 121250. In the major image vocabulary 121 represents a tent and 250 a Norseman (Viking). Imagine a tent with your friend wearing a Viking helmet peeping out of the flap.
Alternatively, you could imagine your friend indulging in a superstitious ritual of taking a bun out of each of his shoes and placing them in a beehive to cure a wart. Remember the number rhyme system 1 is a bun, 2 is a shoe, 5 is a hive, 0 can be a wart in this case.
The number shape system could also be used. Imagine your friend prodding two ducks along the road with two sticks until he arrives at the blacksmith's shop. Here he drops an anvil on them and puts them in the pot to cook.
Mental Organiser/Diary
Use the major image vocabulary on pages 80 to 98 to give a number to the hour. For example, gam invokes the image of a bag. Imagine this image in the context of an appointment you have to keep. Suppose you have to see your bank manager at gam. Imagine carrying a large bag of money into the bank to see him. Feel how heavy it is. Smell the mustiness of the cloth. Hear it rustle and jingle. Feel the heat of the cloth under your hand, as you change hands. Feel the warmth of the bank as you go in and hear the counting of money and the smell of polish and fresh flowers. Suppose your next appointment is with your dentist, at 10 o'clock. Imagine collecting some cash from the bank as you walk out. You need it to buy a packet of Daz (the image for 10) at the supermarket on the way. You intend to wash the dentist's drills in it before he or she touches your mouth with them. Feel the smell of the powder as you do this. Hear it pouring out. Hear the dentist's protestations as you do so.

 
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