Making a mind palace

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I'm a fan of the TV series Sherlock, and obviously find him fascinating, with him having Asperger's as well and all.
What I find most fascinating though about him is his mind palace. I'm not so good with my memory, and hence I am looking to make my own 'mind palace', a place where I can store all my memories.
Anybody have a mind palace? If so, when did you build your first mind palace?
Also, how can I build my own?

Derren brown in his book trick of the mind explains how to do this it also happens to have a lot of other things you may like if you like the things sherlock dose

I'm a huge fan of Derren Brown and the different techniques.. I've tried building a mind palace, and the layout is in my mind, and walking into a room brings my mind onto a certain subject, but I can't put anything in the rooms to trigger "the next step" or get an overview to use it as a tool to remember large amounts of information.

I do have a "working" forest of mind blocking, not really what you mean but a little similar I suppose.
It's a forest with trees made from coloured numbers, the branches are smaller numbers and the leaves even smaller and when I really want to block my mind from thinking about something, I fly over it trying to read all the numbers. The sky flashes all kinds of colours too. It kills any thoughts by my mind being filled with flashing colours and numbers and can actually make me feel nauseous and dizzy and weirdly enough makes my eyes hurt.

That is a really cool technique to stop obsessive thinking. I've heard of the mind palace, but I've never heard of that forest technique. Did you get that from the same guy?

No, I came up with it myself after failing to build the palace Before I would just make my mind call out numbers really quickly, but after a while I basically had a counter "on the side of my mind" that randomly generated numbers while the rest of my mind was able to think normally.

I think some key things to "mind places" are having a sense of movement and a sense of looking at something within that 3D space, besides the normal way of "schoolboard/chalkboard" 2D focussing.

I am so going to try that! Thanks for the idea! That's such a creative idea, I'm impressed that you came up with it.

yeah Derren brown explains how to do it, in fact the writers got the mind palace idea from Derren brown according to Mark Gatiss.

the books called Tricks of the mind if you are interested, its also got stuff on magic and hypnotism.

if you have seen the newest Sherlock series Derren brown appeared in that as himself hypnotising John