It sounds more to me like the techniques world memory champion Dominic O'Brien [0] uses to memorize lists and other events on the fly. His inspiration was (I b

It sounds more to me like the techniques world memory champion Dominic O'Brien [0] uses to memorize lists and other events on the fly. His inspiration was (I believe) Aristotle (if not Aristotle, another ancient Greek) who, after a church collapsed, recalled the names of every person who was present at the moment of collapse. His filing cabinet method and Aristotle's (slash O'Brien's) memory palace methods sound very similar in that they give each memory a concrete place to exist and relate the memories to other memories around them thus securing their place within the information hierarchy. I'm sure there is more to it than he says, and if I had to guess, I'd imagine it's a very sensory process (as sensory perceptions provide something much more analog to grasp onto than the relatively digital description a person can provide with words). [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_O%27Brien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_O%27Brien