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I just have a few doubts with my myself of whether I'm really photoreading or not. The biggest problem lies in the activating step. What is an open gaze? Do you mean the same thing as photoreading? And what's a hunch? Is it a sudden headache in the head, or floating words on the book? As what I'm doing now, I'd just dip into anything that I just happen to dip, but I seem to be dipping into something useless and most of the time I just read a couple of words and then start going again, it turnt out that I didn't even know what the passage I had just dipped was about.

And for the photoreading stage, it seeems to be really easy seeing the blip page, but that is maybe only because I have a 'lazy eye', which when I start to focus on a thing, my left eye would just diverge away unconsiously. I'm not sure whether it's ok to photoread like that as the words don't appear to blur and I can even distinguish a word or two out.

[This message has been edited by Periphery (edited May 13, 2001).]






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u seem 2 have mixed some stuff.
the open gaze u use during activation differs from the soft gaze u use in the photoreading step. the soft gaze or photofocus is done by looking beyond the book & noticing the 4 corners & the white spaces. the open gaze we use in activation is not really a gaze. u c, 1 of our problems when we read regulary is that we narrow our sight 2 1 word or even just 1 silable. the open gaze paul reffers 2 on the activation step is trying 2 look on the text so we can notice more of it (usually done in super reading or just skittering the text) so we can put entire blocks of text into our conscious so we can retrigger our unconscious knowledge we gained during the photoreading session. 2 use the open gaze the key is just 2 relax & b playful with it. so this open gaze is just a ministep i usually do in super reading & dipping so i can catch the entire line or more in 1 moment.

about ur lazy eye, sorry im really not sure. u should try using the X method it works just like photofocus. also run a search about seeing impairments on the forum db. or ask a question about it specificly. if any1 else can help about this subject it will b very nice (hint ).

and a hunch 2 me is just a hunch, well ill b more specific: i feel like ive passed over something which usually accompanied by a feeling of a slight discomfort. (not physical discomfort ofcourse..u know the feeling of i forgot 2 do something) . as 4 ur dipping check that uve done ur trigger word & mind probing questions well (try 2 write it extra 1.5 min). as 4 ur hunch try the dictionary game ,ull get 2 notice it better. it always amazes me that i always succeed the first try well (well i didnt try 2 much but it did work).

hope i helped ya 2 some extent
Raanan Hadar

[This message has been edited by Raanan Hadar (edited May 14, 2001).]







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