User:Duurdub/Erotic mnemonics

Mnemonics (Mnemonic) are a powerful way of aiding memory especially for abstract information such as numbers, lists or vocabulary. A common advice for creating effective mnemonics, or mental images, is to follow the following criteria :
 * Exaggeration
 * Unusual association (Von Restorff effect)
 * Movement
 * Emotional implication

However, a difficulty of using mnemonics is in coming up with a fitting image for your material. Therefore having a predefined framework might help. The purpose of this research project is to explore creating such a framework. A similar approach for learning numbers is the Mnemonic major system, providing words for each number from 0 to 99 based on a combination of consonants. Eroticism is a strong emotion and it often involves movement. This is to be used for the framework.

Erotic major system
A body part, a movement and an attribute is associated to each digit 0-9. Each column is additionally represented in emojis (taken from different categories to prevent confusion) to allow for a compact and more visual representation.

Usage for memorizing numbers
For integers, use a body part for the most significant digit and movements for the following digits. Examples:


 * 10: Glans penis suck (🌰🚼)
 * 42: Clitoris pull apart (🍄🛃)

Beyond a few digits (unless it’s a sequence of digits and not an integer, such as telephone number) and for non-integers, it’s better to use the Scientific notation: 1234 → 1.234 * 103, 3.14159 → 3.14159 * 100. Exponent (attribute) comes first as this is the most significant information (remembering the order of magnitude is more important than remembering all the digits).


 * Exponent: use an attribute for single-digit exponents. For more, it might be better to either learn it separately or to choose a common offset in case all the numbers you’re learning are in a close range of exponents. For completeness, it is possible to specify several attributes for multi-digit exponents, but as it’s counterintuitive to remember the order of attributes, it’s probably not good for a memory aid.
 * Significand: Take a body part for the first digit, then use movements for the following digits. One needs to remember the order of the movements which is better to avoid, but still less confusing than to remember the different body parts in order.

Examples:


 * 1234 (1.234 * 103): Wet glans penis pull apart, penetrate, spank (⛲🌰🛃⬇️❇️)
 * 3.14159 (3.14159 * 100): Dark penile shaft squeeze, spank, squeeze, linear stroke, vibrate (🌚🥒🚮❇️🚮↕️📳) (not recommended, see below)

Since a flashcard should be bite-sized (amount of information that you can quickly digest into your short-term memory), it’s recommended to cut apart long sequence of digits.

Example: 18007997233 (National Domestic Violence Hotline)


 * first part 1800: Glans penis twist, suck, suck (🌰🔀🚼🚼)
 * middle part 799: Scrotum vibrate, vibrate (🍒📳📳)
 * last part 7233: Scrotum pull apart, penetrate, penetrate (🍒🛃⬇️⬇️)

Here it makes sense to cut the sequence such that repetitions (such as 00, 99, 33) appear after the second digit of a part so that they appear as repetition of movements.

Automatic converter
The following is a reference implementation of converting numbers into the emoji notation of the erotic major system. You can try it out on flems.io.