I've never learned the method of loci or Memory Palace, I've certainly never tried to take my childhood home and use it to remember things. I find it interesting then that the standup comedy routines I've memorized after multiple YouTube viewings, I don't remember the actual videos, I don't recall the gestures, the set design, the media qualities of the video transfer. Instead I seem to recall images conjured in my imagination.

Emo Philips saying "My brain started to bleed" calls to mind a vivid memory of him as a youngster, eyes rolling in his head, blood coming out of his ear. There is no such thing in the Youtube video.

I haven't attached this to a memory palace. This is just a vivid imaginary tableau that is a literal interpretation of a line in standup.

I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from this. Maybe I've found a lousy "we got memory palace at home" version of the technique? or is this how most people who aren't aphantasic memorize things?