Memory Builder: A Gentle Game to Lift Your Mood

Welcome to Memory Builder, a calm and reflective game designed to help you reconnect with positive experiences and strengthen your mind’s ability to recall joy. When we feel down, our minds can sometimes get stuck focusing on the negative. This game is a gentle exercise to help shift that balance.

This is more than just a game—it’s an interactive tool based on the science of memory and mood, developed by the team at Joyful Psych Labs.

The Science of Building Positive Memories

Memory Builder is based on an evidence-based technique called Positive Memory Training (PMT). The science behind it is both simple and profound:

• The Brain’s “Negativity Bias”: Our brains are naturally wired to pay more attention to and remember negative experiences. This is a survival instinct. In low mood or depression, this bias can become much stronger, making it difficult to recall positive times.
• Strengthening Neural Pathways: Just like exercising a muscle, the more you practice recalling positive memories, the stronger the neural pathways to those memories become.
• The Power of Detail: The key to PMT is recalling memories with sensory detail—what you saw, heard, and felt. This makes the memory more vivid and emotionally impactful in the present moment.

By playing Memory Builder, you are actively practicing the skill of positive recall, which can help to improve your mood and build emotional resilience over time.

How to Play

The goal is to fully reconstruct a positive memory.

1. The Prompt: You will be given a simple prompt to spark a memory (e.g., “A time you felt proud”).
2. Build the Memory: Fill in the sensory details of that memory—what you saw, heard, and felt.
3. Watch it Glow: With each detail you add, you will see your “Memory Orb” grow brighter.
4. Complete the Orb: Once all the details are filled in, you will have built a complete, glowing memory.
5. Repeat: Continue building new positive memories to increase your score.

Disclaimer: This game is an educational tool designed for skill-building and entertainment. It is not a treatment or a replacement for professional therapy or a medical diagnosis. We do not take responsibility for any damage or outcomes from the use of this game.

Take a deep breath, and let’s begin.