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When I dipp, will my intuition strikes if I have come across something that interests me, but it's on the far left or right side of the page? Even though while supperreading, I couldn't read words that far away?

I usually still use a soft focus while super reading, so I can still see words on the left and right in my peripheral vision, but it shouldn't matter too much.

The whole concept is that your conscious mind sees parts that your subconscious mind recognizes. So, even if you can't see the words on the far left or right, your intuition on when to dip is still based on a decent amount of conscious word patterns that your subconscious can still remember.

You should be okay, but try using soft focus, and don't forget the tangerine technique.

I usually just try to go into alpha state, and that helps me (roll your eyes to the top of your head and pretend to look at the ceiling for like 10-20 seconds). I don't know if tangerine puts you in that state, but I think they're close enough.

=)

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com

Ramon , can you read the whole line while glancing at the center?

I want to know if that's possible for human's eyes. Are there any exercises for widen peripheral vision?

Do our eyes really diverge when we use soft focus??? When i enter photofocus state i don't diverge my eyes , instead i just imagine looking through the book. Is what i do called 'defocus'? Or is it traditional way ?

You can't really read things in your peripheral vision, you can just kind of see patterns. Andy speculated that the subconscious can probably pick up these patterns and that it helps your intuition of when to dip, but even if it doesn't there's enough indicicators in your conscious field for your subconscious to go, "oh, this is the section about annelids; screw it, keep going, man, you don't need this to fufill the purpose you stated".

As far as soft focus and diverging, here's how it goes:

If you get a blip page, your eyes are either diverging or converging. If your crossing yoru eyes, it's converging, but if you're letting your eyes relax (the right way) your diverging. In other words, if you're not crossing your eyes and getting a blip page, you're diverging.

Soft focus and hard focus is a little harder to describe. It's kind of independant of diverging and converging, since you can diverge and get the blip page without having soft focus. I can't really describe it, it's like everything you see becomes softer or the tiniest bit fuzzy, though everything is clear. It's hard to describe.

But it's easy to feel the difference, and in general, with hard focus you're focusing on a small single point and have a tightness in your movements, whereas in soft focus your perspective is generally larger and you're relaxed. Use the tangerine techniqe, it helps to get a soft focus.

On peripheral vision - everybody has it, it's just that some pick up on things in it better than others...it's just that we refer to the ability as peripheral vision as well. Basketball players have excellent peripheral vision, because they have a knack seeing teammates in the corner of their eye without moving their eye or head, and passing to them. Some if it is based on prediction, but some of it is peripheral vision.

My wider peripheral vision is kinda junky since I wear glasses. But as far as soft focus goes, I'm not bad =)

I know this is confusing. Don't worry about. In overall answer to your question, your mind can still guide you when to dip if you're not consciously seeing words on the far left or far right.

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com

I have another quesition. When I supperread, do I need to be aware of what I'm supperreading? Are you supposed to read each word in the middle of the page, from each line as you go down or just recognize them?

Not sure how to answer that one exactly...I'd say try to read one word for every line, as you go down, but if you miss one, don't sweat it, just keep going.

What exactly do you mean by recognize?

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com

I mean do I just notice the words or like get it into my head. Take the words "arrange." As I supperread through the middle of the page, am I supposed to just take a quick glimpse at it or look actually read it?

I think your subconscious just has to be able to pick it up. I would imagine reading it would be good, but that recognizing it would probably be adaquate. Play with both ways and see what works for you, since the system varies with each person.