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Does photoreading induce illness? I know it sounds silly , but I decided to photoread webmaster's dictionary which had a font of like 7 and around 1200 pages and it took me 45 min.
and the next day my head ached really badly.
this was like 2 days ago, and now i've developed a fever.
and I still haven't noticed any "words" popping out , i'm sure at least one word from the dictionary woudl pop up in my mind since I read so many pages

I think you would have been better off breaking the task down to smaller sections. 10 minutes at a time would have been easier to handle. Especially as a beginning photoreader. Staying at the relaxed level for a whole 45 minutes... flipping pages - wow or ow?. I prefer to break it down to more managable levels to allow my mind to process it... the headache? I for one would not discount the possibility of a connection. It's a bit like going into a workout and then overdoing it... the brain is often referred to as a muscle so...

As for words not popping out... you typed a nice collection of words... have you thought of guessing the position of any of them in the dictionary? When you say words are not popping into your head... do you expect them to come to you in some unusual way? Just think of a word and then imagine where it's located in the dictionary, look it up and see how right you were. Once you've started playing the game that way, then unusual words can start 'coming to mind'. If you let them *pop* then they're gone before you've had a chance to consider them

Alex

Thanks Alex!, Ok today I just went to the doctors and I got cold apparently, that explains the sneezing and headaches I had yesterday hehe.
But is it tangeable to say that while photoreading it weakens your immune system? cuz I haven't had an illness for a year now and the photoreading thing and the cold is such a coincidence.

Hey alex so basically what you're saying, is that I would only be able to tell where the words are placed in the dictionary , not "the definition of the words" as well?

I had hoped that someone else might have picked this up however 1200 pages turning approx 1 page every 2 second would have taken you about 20 minutes to go through that book. Perhaps you were trying too hard?

For "the definition of the words" you might find that you know them instinctively not realising that you didn't really know them before. If you want to parrot back the definition 'as written' in the dictionary then you would PR repeatedly with the specific intent of doing that... And that takes time probably PRing the book for 1 week to a month. Depending also on you level of belief that you yourself can do it, how exact you want to be etc, it could take a longer or shorter period of time. Intitially thinking of the word and guessing the location playing with it that way opens up the mind. In much the same way as a marathon runner started running short distances and built upon them as the stamina builds. If you do take on that goal I suggest that you PR the book in 2 halves giving yourself a break between session. And drink plenty of water (seriously).

Seeing that I PRed the dictionary that came with the course only once I've noticed something interesting. From time to time I do check my spelling and grab a dictionary from my desk... (because of it compact size and it amuses me because so many common words are missing from it) I have that dictionary on my desk. I know immediately whether or *not* to look in that book for the word I'm thinking of. The word instinctively was not in the book but that's ok I thought cause instinct is and that serves my purpose . (I was right)

Alex

i guess having your eyes out of focus for such a long period of time could give you a headache, you really shouldnt strain your eyes like that. do the eye healing technique.(rub your hands together, generate heat and hold your hands over your eyes) also, get up and stretch, drink water or whatever inbetween photoreading sessions. i dont beleive photoreading gave you a cold, however, since there seem to be no health risks in photoreading. maybe it is just a coincidence. hope you feel better soon.

Because the dictionary was so huge, I thought it'd be impossible for my eye to diverge to the four corners of the book, so I decided to pr each page of the book for 2 seconds.
is this alright? i photofocus and move quickly from leftpage to right page turn over page leftpage to right page

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Originally posted by Libriarian:
Because the dictionary was so huge, I thought it'd be impossible for my eye to diverge to the four corners of the book, so I decided to pr each page of the book for 2 seconds.
is this alright? i photofocus and move quickly from leftpage to right page turn over page leftpage to right page

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I think that the flexibility of the PhotoReading step is brilliant. Do whatever feels comfortable to you, and this is the method which shall work best. I would also recommend doing it in sections.

If you ever get headaches or just plain feel weird in the head, try drinking plenty of water before, and after you PhotoRead and activate a book.

Also, daily excersise, which many of us tend to abuse in this day and age is something we all benefit from.

PhotoReading does not affect the immune system in any way.

Flexibilty is great... it explains the strain don't you think? The head turning, page turning, photofocus for long time... Break it down to smaller lots. Shorter periods of Photofocusing and page turning with breaks in between. If you find that you can take in both pages at once (becomes possible with practice) save yourself the time and enjoy the added speed.

Alex

i remembered having a migraine-like headache (right brain headache) the 1st time I PRed or after a long break. I was then PRing a technical book on biochemistry, which is almost 1200 pages long. it took me about an hour and i did have a headache.

last month, after a break of more than a month, i started PRing again and surely, i got a headache, which disappears soon. the next day i PR again and got a headache again, but less intensely this time. from the third day onwards, everything was fine.

i reckoned that it has something to do with hyperactivation of your brain to process the information. well, i'm not a neurologist or a psychiatrist to accertain this... I'm only a molecular biologist.

As to the headaches, I haven't experienced much, though the lightheaded sensation is familiar enough. I think it comes from using the brain in ways which it is not usually used. In this sense, the Photoreading step itself is a whole-mind experience.
Personally, I find that deep breathing before and after the process helps, as well as drinking lots of water. I go with the 8-12-10 breathing pattern, but deep breathing should be enough to do the trick.

KWLee