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Can you photoread on computer? or is it too eye straining?

Also a question about photo focus...

Scheele did say that not seeing the "blip" page is fine right?

So all you have to do is just notice the whole screen and not hard focus and you can photoread?

It really depends on your monitor. I do it with the Digests I'm on - I Preview and Photoread in the morning, and then I activate in the afternoon, or immediately if something I preview catches my attention. But, that's all I use it for because the "white" is just a bit much for me to look at. When I enter PhotoFocus at a computer screen, I see the same shifting sparkling patterns of color that I see when I close my eyes, only more intense. I have a Trinitron Multiscan200GS.

As far as the blip page goes, that's just a "clue" that you have a divergant gaze. To me, "divergant gaze" and "PhotoFocus" are diffent things. Divergant gaze is a way of using your eyes. PhotoFocus means being in the Ideal Learning State and using your perefrial vision. A person with one eye can enter PhotoFocus, but cannot have a "divergant gaze." Do you see what I mean?

Yes you can photoread on the computer. I find it faster than books. No page flipping.

No need to see the blip page, soft focus is all it takes.

Yes notice the whole screen.

Alex

I just sat the PR class with Paul and he mentioned a technique to me when I asked this very same questions. He said to put two circular dots on the top of your monitor. These dots should be a certain length away (interoculuar?, perhaps someone can help with this). Basically I think it's pretty close to the distance between your retinas.

Anyway, soften your gaze on those dots and when the two dots become three dots due to the divergence of your eyes, you're in the PhotoFocus state. As for me I don't have much problem getting there but perhaps this will help someone who does.

To get the soft gaze with your computer screen without sticking anything to the monitor use the X method.

Notice the 4 corners of the screen and widen your gaze to them. This will invoke and increase the size of your periferal vision putting your into the soft gaze (I actually tend to see an X in the white spaces). Do page turning by hitting the PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys.

Here it is again:
http://www.exploreit.net/stereoreading/index.htm

It's all expalined there!

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Originally posted by jbischke:
I just sat the PR class with Paul and he mentioned a technique to me when I asked this very same questions. He said to put two circular dots on the top of your monitor. These dots should be a certain length away (interoculuar?, perhaps someone can help with this). Basically I think it's pretty close to the distance between your retinas.

Anyway, soften your gaze on those dots and when the two dots become three dots due to the divergence of your eyes, you're in the PhotoFocus state. As for me I don't have much problem getting there but perhaps this will help someone who does.

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The dots should be 0.5 to 1.5 inches apart or 13 to 30mm. It will probably depend on the distance you are away from your monitor. If you have the photoreading manual that comes with the home study course you will have a guide to the approximate distance apart. The are occasionally printed at the top edge of a random dot stereo as a guide.

If you place a couple of similar dots near the top edge, vertical center of your monitor you have an alternate guide.

Alex

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For me, I find that using the X technique works best for PhotoReading computer monitors. I simply imagine, like watching television - two red lines that cross from the corners, creating an X in front of me.

Almost as if someone had made a little movie clip about PhotoFocus and on the screen during this little presentation, they said - "The X technique can look like this," then they show you a black box, with the four corners...one red line going from the top right corner to the bottom left, and vice versa for another red line.

-youngprer

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