Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer The blippage.

When listening to the tape Paul refers to an artist, can't remeber the name, anyhow.
The artist says that when you should paint the picture of a thumb you shouldn't paint the thumb you should paint the area around the thumb.
That made me thinking.

Should the blip page and the space between columns of text look like something similar to the white/black blips in this image. http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/illusions/phantomdots.gif

I believe he was referring to Betty Edwards. She wrote "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain."

I've wondered, how does that illusion work???

I think that the "Drawing the negative space" concept the Paul talks about in the book is different that the physiological effect in that link.

I believe that Paul is trying to get you to consider the white spaces on the page and not the black text. This is similar negative space drawing technique. You are directing your conscious mind around the matter of interest. You are still completely aware of it, but your mind doesn't fixate on any details of the object of interest.

I've done this in drawing classes and it takes awhile, but it is very useful.

It's the same as his saying "see the white spaces" on the page. It helps to stop the conscious mind from hard focussing on individual words.

The believe the effect you see in the image is a fatigue or persistence issue. It is not the blip page (parallel vision) effect.

You are perfection.
Iam2

Yeah, so you basically still see the information, but referring the the surrounding white spaces for a change. Doing this may even make reading feel faster, since using the white space will give you a more holistic picture.

Oh yeah, and a question to anyone proficient at PhotoReading.

Do you know what it's like to have the blip page while Photoreading, and then occasionally have one eye suddenly become more dominant and focused? My eyes are still diverged, but this creates an effect that one side of the blip disappears for a while. My eyes are open, so I'm hoping that the PR step remains equally functional.

If you stay relaxed and keep a soft focus, then the PR step is still working. Seeing the blip page is not necessary to do the PR step properly.

So if one eye becomes dominate, and you stay in state and notice all the material (or white space) out to the four corners of the book then you're doing just fine.

You are perfection.
Iam2

I have a bad habit of forgetting to say thanks to people after they've answered my questions, so...

Thank you all for answering my question, this one and others.

One of the simplest ways to experience the negative space concepts is to grab a simple drawing like a cartoon turn it upside down and copy that. A subtle mind shift takes place and you start drawing by noticing shapes not the lables we give parts of the illustration.

When done you'll be surprised at the accuracy of your drawing.

In a way that's what we do with photoreading. Stop the mind applying the labels and getting it to notice what is and then look at the finished picture when done.

In the optical illusions it demonstates the minds attempt to complete the picture from the imformation picked up by the eyes.

Alex