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How to Play Memory Games. You can improve your memory by playing memory games. Here
are some ideas to get you started. You will need Picture book Paper and pen House Pictures
of household objects Store and stories. Step 1. Spend a few minutes looking at pictures
in a book that are unfamiliar to you. Close the book. Step 2. Make a list on a piece of
paper of as many of those objects that you can remember. Open the book again and check
how well you did. Step 3. Walk through your house and note 10 different places where you
could put an object. Make sure you can walk from one location to the next easily and that
you will take the same path each time you walk through the house. Step 4. Look at the
pictures of 10 household objects in a magazine for a couple of minutes, and imagine each
of the objects placed in one of the 10 locations in your house. Close the magazine. Step 5.
Write down as many of the household items you can remember on a piece of paper. Open
the magazine again and check how well you did. Studies have shown that people are more
likely to remember objects associated with things they are already familiar with. Step
6. Make a list of 10 objects you need to buy at the store and make up stories about each
of the objects. Put the list away, go shopping, and see whether you forget to buy anything
on your list. Did you know Mnemosyne, the Greek symbol of memory, was the daughter of
Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth).