A Memory Game, But With Food

Our goal, with this essay, is to clarify.

To clarify a game.

A game that is not unlike our “memory game.”

But, with a fun twist that you may, or may not, appreciate.

So, with that in mind, let’s begin!

A Memory Game

Our memory game involves selecting a memory.

Just as an example, if you saw “Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers” in theaters, when it first came out, at a theater in your neighborhood, then that would be a memory you can select.

Right after you select a memory, clarify 33 details regarding that memory.

Or more, if you want. Or less, for that matter.

Soon after you clarify these details, you will have a portrait.

A portrait of richness and vividity that you, as a creative being, can turn to.

You can turn to this portrait for new ideas, associations, clarity, guidance, feeling; and so on and so forth.

Or, you can do something else: you can select another memory and, then, conduct this same process.

Right after you can do so, you can combine two details together — or, really, anything, within the memories that you have chosen — to create a new story.

Just as an example, a story rooted in a memory of seeing “Lord Of The Rings” and going on a long Winter walk to Mount Tabor might, within this context, give birth to a story about going on a walk and experiencing a time slip.

A time slip that takes our protagonist into another world; something vaguely fantastical and foreign, yet tangible.

Eventually, they return. But, in returning, they come to realize that their models of the world are inadequate.

The world, as it truly is, is unknowable.

Or, at least, that is true, within the context of this story.

The Power Of Food

Our new memory game is not unlike the two memory games outlined right above.

But, there is one notable difference.

Rather than selecting any memory, you select a memory that involves food.

Just as an example, a Thanksgiving you enjoyed.

Or, a memory of you eating noodles, on the Tonle Sap, while it was raining.

You then play with this memory, in a manner not unlike what was outlined earlier.

Right before we clarify how, exactly, you can play this game, there is one thing to clarify.

You see, food is rich; rich with memories, associations, emotions, and sensory details.

Specific foods often serve as a link to the richness that is your life.

If you select a memory that involves a particular food, it is very likely that you can find, within that memory, a wide wealth of details that lead to associations regarding other memories, moments, and notions.

Or, at least, that is my thesis; if you play this game, you will be able to verify this thesis for yourself.

A Food-Based Memory Game

To begin our memory game, select a memory.

A memory that involves food.

Just as an example, a Thanksgiving dinner, in which you were introduced to Boston Cream Pie.

Right after you select this memory, clarify 33 details regarding it.

Even if it feels like you are making them up, allow yourself to record these details.

Or, if you can’t think of 33 details, find as many as you would like.

Right after you clarify these details, there are three things you can do:

• Combine two details together and, then, let this combination lead to a new story.
• Select another memory and combine that memory with your first memory.
• Clarify details from your second memory and combine one detail with a detail from your first memory.

Every single one of the actions outlined above will allow you to come up with a wealth of stories you can create.

3 Examples

Right before we conclude this essay, we will clarify three examples.

Every single one of these examples serves as a story that this memory game allowed me to discover.

And, with that in mind, these three examples are as follows:

• A memory that involved me eating noodles, on a rainy night, right by the Tonle Sap, leads to a story centered on a lone wanderer who wanders through an empty tropical city, with very few people, on another world, in search of the one who created her.
• A memory that involved me eating Boston Cream Pie on Thanksgiving, when combined with the memory outlined above, leads to a story about gratitude and feeling and, in turn, their power to fundamentally alter the world we live in; within the context of this story, this power is rooted in a neuroplasticity augment.
• A memory that involves the two memories outlined above, but with two details combined, leads to a story centered on doorways that connect different points on the earth, that can only activate when one appreciates the invisible beings that operate these doorways and allow us to go through these doorways.

None of these stories are especially great. And, some of them are…well, it’s hard to see how these memories might lead to that story.

Even so, though, the ideas are compelling and playing this game was quite fun!

Conclusion

Just to wrap this up, thank you so much for reading!

My hope is that you enjoy these games and that, in playing them, you come up with some great stories.

If you wish to reach me, you can do so by emailing me at “maxwellcakin@gmail.com.”

Best wishes and have a lovely day!