#Memory palace series#

He uses the knowledge stored there to solve his mysteries. Agent Pendergast has an elaborate palace built in the memory of his family estate.He laments that it doesn’t always work, as he once found himself searching for where he left the book he was reading, only to remember he was reading that book ‘50 years ago.’ He describes it as the only way to stay sane with the expanse of time his mind must process. Lazarus Long uses the technique to organize his mind once his life has stretched centuries beyond a normal human lifespan.In the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock Holmes referred to his brain as an attic.The antagonist, Hans-Peter Schneider, mentally visits his 'memory rooms' and stops by a large walk-in freezer where he keeps his parents as a child he locked them inside it to freeze to death. Briefly shown in a later Harris novel, Cari Mora.It's mentioned that he would spend years inside it while incarcerated in an insane asylum. Hannibal Lecter is a master of a vast memory palace, portrayed as an elegant mansion. In the Thomas Harris novel Hannibal, Dr.

#Memory palace series#

In The Dark Tower, when Roland reaches the titular Dark Tower, he finds a series of rooms depicting events in his life, most notably Roland's companions killed in his quest for the tower, beginning with his hawk David.It becomes a plot point when his body is hijacked by an alien entity, trapping his mind inside it.

Dreamcatcher: Jonesy keeps his memories in a messy warehouse.Only to find herself trapped as Abra speed-reads through Rose's memories instead (Rose's palace is shown as a huge library signifying her ancient life). Seeing her memories as a series of filing cabinets in her bedroom, Rose tries to open them. Rose The Hat projects her mind into that of Abra, a psychic girl, while she sleeps. A memory palace is used for mental combat in Doctor Sleep.Cobb builds a classic one to process his grief and guilt over his wife's death: painful and important memories are stored on levels accessed from an elevator. The palaces are designed to be complex locations, everything from houses to hotels to a fortified mountain fortress. The extractors then infiltrate the construct and steal the information they want. Trained memory extractors build dream constructs for their targets, who automatically store their secrets and memories in them. Inception shows an involuntary version.He also stores the memory of his first murder there.

One section is a rotting house that contains memories of his abusive childhood.

In The Cell, Carl Stargher's mind is portrayed as a dark, twisted maze.