Remember folks,
To fully optimize the technique, decide what emotional state you would like to have in the activation environment. All learning is state dependent. Therefore, stay in your relaxed White Room emotional state while photoreading. Then when the trigger environment occurs, you should enter your "photostate" and the information should begin activating as you listen to your lecture, brainstorm with friends or critically read the text, chalkboard, etc..
Remember, this technique only betters your chances to spontaneously activate - not insures that the information will spontaneously activate.
From a modelling perspective, activation requires you to be proactive, not passive. Even dreaming is a proactive thought storm. Skimming, skittering, etc. are proactive processes. Image Streaming and Freenoting are proactive processes. Spontaneous activation simply means that the gestalt is present with a few "holes" for your unconscious to fill. Spontaneous activation is not some mystical unexplainable phenomenon. It is an active, scientific process.
Don't by into "LA-Z-BOY learning". Become active, hence the word "activate" not "passive-ate".
Good luck, and...
CommonSense
[This message has been edited by CommonSense (edited April 11, 2002).]
