I love this technique. I can still remember memory palaces from over a decade ago with perfect clarity. It's amazing that when you work with the brain on what it's good at, such as geospatial awareness, or chunking (to cite another memory technique), what wondrous things we can do, in fields not just in memory but others as well. Work with the system, not against it.

Note that the method of loci might not work for people who have aphantasia, or the disability to not be able to visualize in the "mind's eye." It seems like whenever this is mentioned that people discover that they have it and can't believe that people can literally visualize in perfect clarity in their mind the same as looking out a window [0] [1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/8rx0fi/til_a...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/c4i94n/tifu_by_explai...